A WEDDING IN WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 43, 23 February 1894, Page 19

A WEDDING IN WELLINGTON.

(From a Correspondent.) An event of considerable local interest took place at Pabiatna (near Wellington), on ATonrtay the Rrh inst , when Mr Alexander Morgan of the Treasury Department, was married to Miss Lavina Stuart, fourth daughter of Mr Charles Stewart of Jurtgeford, Pahautanui. The The ceremony was performed at the Catholic Church at 9 a.m. by the Rev Father Goggan, S.M , assisted b? the Very Rev Father Lane, S M , after which a nnptual Mass was said by Rev Father Goggan. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Annie Stewart,' as chief bridesmaid, and was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr Thomas Smith. The bridegroom being atteided by Mr James Ward of the Audt Department, as best man. The wedding breakfast was laid at the residence of the bride's parents, where about 60 relatives and guests sat down. The health of the bride and bridegioom was proposed in eloquent terms by the Very Rev Father Lane The other toasts honoured were Mr and Mrs Stuart, proposed by the Rev Father Goggin ; the bridesmaid's by Mr James Ward, and Mr Kelly ; tha bridegroom 1 * uncle, by Mr John Holmes of the Treasury Department. In the course of a happy speech Mr H lmeß took occasion to refer to the good feeling that existed between the bridegroom and all who knew him, and on behalf of himself and his fellow offi :ers presented the bride with a morroco case containing half-a-dozen silver afternoon tea spoons and sugar tongs. A few days previous to the wedding Mr Morgan was the reci. pient of a very handsome present from his brother officers, consisting of cutlery, epoons, forks, cruets, &c. Mr J. B. Heywood, tha secretary to the Treasury, making the presentation. The larga number of costly presents received by the happy couple testified in a marked manner the esteem in which both are held by relatives and friends.

According to a report relating to migratory agricultural labourers in Ireland, showing their distribution and proportion to the population, the total number of migratory agncu.ural labourers in 1893 was 14,7f>1, or 3 1 per 1,000 of the population, which in 1891 was 4 704,750. Nearly six-sevenths of the eatire number of labourers— namely, 12 589 -were natives of Counaught, and of this 8 856 came from the County Mayo, which furnished overone-balf of all the Irieh migratory labourers. It appears 84 3 per cent of the migratory labourers sought work in England, 13.0 per cent in Scotland, and 2 7 percent, in Ireland. Commentiagon these statistics, the Star writes • '• The reports just issued on the migration of Irish labourers show a slight reduction on last year. It is Connaught which supplies the bulk of the moratory class. In Leinster and Munster the numbers who left the provinces in June were so small that they could not have had any appreciable effect on the labour market elsewhere The number who left Ulster rose 6 per cent, and the Unionists would no doubt be prepared to prove that this incre.se was due to the Liberal Government, but unfortunately for any such calculation the increase was confined to the Home Rale counties of U ster. If these figures prove anything it is that under a peaceful policy conditions of la°bour iq Ireland are improving " R. MacS Gordon read an interesting paper on " A Plea for Iriah Music," before the Gaelic L^igue of Dublin. He said among other things: If we allowed our national Wnguage to be los 1 we snould be showing ourselves blind io the true interests and to the tiue national life of our people. But if the care of the language of the country waa a sacred trust, the cue of the traditional music of the people was a trust no less Bacred, for our music was one of the truest and moat honourable marks of our existence as a distinct people. Treating of the power and influence of Irish music, Mr Gordon referred to tha tradition common in Gaelic literature of the possession of a music by tha ancient Irish, the modes of which were powerful enough to produce in turn tears of sorrow, unrestrained laughter and p-aceful slumber. What was this tradition bat a somewhat inflated expres ion of vhe powers of Irish music ? What music was more expressive of joy and gaiety, or more capable of impartinir such feelings ihan '• Pleraca na Ruarcach," or ' The rocky road to Dublin " ? Where did restfulness and peace find happier expression than in 'The tmowy-breastei pearl," or "Mary of Ballyhaunis " 1 No music more adequately reflected or imparted the martial spirit than " Cruachan na Faiune," or '• Where's the slave so lowly " none ib more instinct with genuine pathos than " 8* Mhuiren Delis " or " Uilleagan Dubh O." The Gael of old paid the closest attention to harmony and swee ness of language, and it was not wonderful if they held a recognised pre-eminence in these regions for harmony and sweetness ia music. For mush and language went always hand in band. Father Ignatius is one of the most unique figures in the Anglioaa Church. In the beautiful hermitage which he has erected for himself and his followers at Llantbony, Sjuth Wale?, he watches with heavy heart the inro.dsof scepticism and latitudinarianism in the Anglican Churcn. " Whet of the night ?" this lone sentinel mar from his watch-tower ask his brethren of the Churon of England, nationalism has permeated the very manow of the Anglican Church.' fcach succeeding Bampton lecturer is more heterodox in his deductoj, more scornful in his analyses of the Bible. The Bampton lectures are. ia fact, undermining more and more unmistakably the doctrines of faith in th.i Church to which Father fguatius still ciiags. It is only a mitter of tiaae ujtil these same Btmptoa lectures ar«* delivered by the fluccessois of Professor Max Muller or Profeaaor

Hnrley. Father Ignatius asks scornfully what the Archbishop cf Canterbury is doing to stay tue ravages of the Biblical Vpndals and scientific Huns who are the opponents of the Church of England's doct ines and d )em»s. He is doing absolutely nothing, unless it be now acd again to Allude sneerinqly to the Oathohc Uhurch as " an Italian mission," and, with the inconsistency which comes of a rttateconferred s'ipead, to call himself the successor of the first Italian mi sionary that ever set foot on these shores. The usually well-informed Catlwlic World reviewing the recent publication of Davis' work " The Patriot Piliatnentof 1689," quesciuns the good taste of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy in contributing to that work ft preface so lengthy and no marked by the personality of the writer. On this point the Catholic World must b<s left to have its opinion, although it may be interes<ing to know that tbe condemned preface has been pronounced by English writers to be to them an excellent aid and an almost indispensable adjunct to the study of Davis' work. The review eoes on to say that while " Davis was a sort of secular saint in the '48 movement, Duffy only proved himself a very able writer about it." This is assuredly a very amazing sUtement, to the thinking of most people. We would bo very reluctant to decry Davie, but Duffy was just ks much a creator of tbe '48th movement as was his dead friend. He wrote about it certainly in later year?, but he wrote iv it also, and to some purpose, as those who are conversant with the old Nation files and the contemporary literature of '48 can well remember and will readily testify. The Emperor of Germany received the first news of the terrible outrage in tbe French Chamber by a telpgram from the Foreign Office. On reading tbe dispatch which was in cipher, he could not conceal tbe impression which the news made, and at dinner observed : "This news has completely spoiled my appetite. Such an iufam >us crime is too dreadful for wordß. We have no longer to do with men, but wild beasts who ought to be stamped out without pity. The Socialist! have systematically excited tbe manses and now -they can no longer hold them bick." When Govtrummts expel and exile ministers of God, who teach the beautiful doctrine of love for God and man, and covertly if not openly, abet the teachings of unbelief in the Supreme Being, they must expect to have a plentilul crop of those who fear ni punishment, who become reck ess of ih?ir own and others' lives, as they believ* in no future state wherein regard or punishment awaits them. Undermine religion and tbe social fabric of law and order becomes a ruin and chaos reigns supreme. Kmperor William performed a wise act when he recently recalled tbe Jesuits to Germany. Lord Coleridge tells tbe following anecdote : " Browning once sent me ft volume of his verses and asked me how I liked it. I replied that wb<tt I could understand I heartily admired, and Uat parts of it I thought ought to be immortal ; but that as to much of it I really could not tell whether I admired it or no, as I could not understand it. 'Ah well,' he said, 'if a reader of your calibre understands 10 per cent of wtat I write, I think he ought to be content,' "

Most Rev Fa 1 her Joachim, General Councillor of the Passionist Order, has been appointei Archbishop of Bucharest, in succession to Archb shop Palme, C.P. F*ther W. S. Cress, of Bowling Gre?n, Ohio, bjlieve* in the Paulist idea, and has begun giving short missions to non-0-n holies in the smaller towns in his neighbourhood. Fattier Cress and Father I. J. Wenderly, of North Biltim ire, labjut lOjjtther. T#o weeks ago, they addressed a large aultence in a town that counts among its population of sev ral thousand ouly two Cttbolic families. The Methodist minister announced prayer mating for tne tame evening on which the prias's were to speak, the fiist prayei meeting he had for nuny weeks. His congregation was v. ry small, and they agreed tn adjourn and go t<> the Catholic meeting After lecturing on the Chriß'ian rule of faith and the Christian's rule of life, the Fathers invited a free discuss ou of re<igious topics. This invitation was promptly accepted, and (or one hour th^v were kept bu-y solving difficulties and meeting objections. Tbe ofcj ctions were principally on the invocation of saints, oi tin infallibility of the Church, and on infant baptism. Tfny were such as any ordinarily instructed Catbolie child could have answered, and yet thebe were real difficulties to a Protestant mind. The Methodist minister ttlao took a hand in the discussion, making a desperate attempt to wax elcquent on the b< le mediatorsbip of Christ. The mayor of the town presided at tb« meeting, at the close of which the Ca'hohc Fatners were requested by unanimous vote to call ngaia and give 'b;m another talk on religion. When movements ef t.is kind become general, may we not look for a largo accession to the Church ? Mr P. O'Neill Larkin, an American j mrn<tHst, recalls in connection with the celebration of tbe festival of Christmas, a fact whicb shows how successfully Catholic thought has permeated American pub ie life. Not many years asjo the factories, stores, and offices were open on Christmas Day in Boston. In the minds of the Puritans of New England there was a latent prtjarfice that Christmas w s a Polish superstition, invented by the Catholics lo ensnare the godly ani lead them to perdition. So firmly was this belief imolanted in thu minds of tbe early settli rB of Massachusetts that by their colo ial legislature they taac ed tbe following law in relation to Christ mas : ' For preventing disorders arising in several places within this jurisdiction by reasoa of some still o serving such festivals as were superßtitioualy kept in other countries, to tbe great dishonour of God and c ffence to others ; Ie is, tberi fore, ordered by this court acid the authority thereof that whosoever shall be found observing any such day hs Christmas or the like, either by forbearing labour, feasting, or any other way upon any such account as aforesti'' 1 , every such person so offending shall p>*y for every such offence five "hillings as afi>e to the country." At <hs present day nowhere in the world is tbe Christmis festival observed more generally and with a truer sense of its leal significance than in the place where it was thus legislated against. The cold Puritanism of New England has bee i thoroughly leavened with Catholic sentimeut. — Liverpool Catholic Times,