A CORRECTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 24, 13 October 1893, Page 20

A CORRECTION.

TO THE EDITOB N.Z. TABLET.

Sib,— Re your leader of last week, what the Hon Mr Seddon'f " admirers " say of bim is not true. It is true that Sir Robert Stout is " king " in New Zealand of the Grand Orient of France, which ii responsible for the persecution of Catholic religious Orders, the secularisation of Catholic schools and hospitals, and now tbe enforced military service of Catholic priests. If the " patriotic " Stout be " king " in the coming Parliament, and remain true to his allegiance to a foreign secret power, Catholics, as a body, cannot expect anything from one who is a decided freetbought member of an aggressive atheistic society, It is not true Vat Mr Seddon was Grand Master of the New Zealand Orangemen. That is a calumny spread abroad with evident object of discrediting him with the Catholic people; Catholics will, doubtless, weigh Mr Seddon in the balance, and if they find him wanting will not hesitate to act accordingly. But truth is truth. It is true that he is a Freemason belonging to one of the British constitutions, but it is not true that he is a member of the Orange Society. I have it on the very reliable authority which I hereby give that Mr Seddon was never in an Orange Lodge in his life, and knows nothing about them,— l am, etc., Tat.