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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 12, 6 January 1893, Page 31

Amongst recent converts is Mr Lincoln Reid, a nephew of tbe Member for Cardiff. The owner of Blarney Castle, Ireland, has refused to allow the Blarney Stone to be taken to the Chicago World's Fair. Bohemia, the land of John Hubs, was once one of the Protestant strongholds of the Continent. It is now all but entirely Catholic. At the last census the percentage of Catholics wbb just over 96, the Protestant percentage being a little over two and that of the Jews one and a half. Marie Soubirous, a sister of Bernadette who witnessed the first miraculous apparition at Lourdes on the 11th February, 1858, has just died in that city. The village of St Anne de Beaupre, Canada, was partially destroyed by fire recently. The church, where there is a famous shrine, and the holy relics were saved. The Society of Jesus is in a flourishing condition in Belgium. This year up to-the middle of October no less than sixty novices had joined the novitiates at Tronchiennes and Arlon. According to advices received by Propaganda, forty thousand persons have been added to Christianity in the course of the first six months of the year 1892. The greater part of these additions were in Asia and West Africa, and a considerable number also in the British Colonies. Myers and Co., Dentists, Octagon, corner of George street The guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. Tbeir artificial teeth give general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a temporary denture while the gums are healing does away with the inconvenience of being months without teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth for Ten Shillings, and sets equally moderate. Tbe administration of nitrous oxide gas is also a great boon to those need* ing the extraction of a tooth. Bead— [Advt.