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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 49, 6 April 1894, Page 31

The Holy Father has issued a letter to the members of the Spanish association called the Apostolate of the Press, granting indulgences and his benediction to all the members who will aid it, either pecuniaiily or otherwise. Mrs F. B. Clarke, one of the leading women of Minnesota, both financially and socially, is about to forsake the Protestant for the Catholic Church. Mr and Mrs Clarke live on Summit Avenue, and Mrs Clarke is worth in her own right more than 1,000,000d015. The Indian Mission at Oldtown, Me., attended by the Revs F. X. Trudel and J. J. McQuinness, has flourishing schools for the Indian children under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy. These devoted religious assist also, as their contom is, in the instruction of adults. Tbe Catholic Bishop of Banjaluka, in Bosnia, while embarking recently at Fiume, for Zara, missed his footing, and fell into tbe sea. He was rescued, but died almost immediately from the shock to the system. The course of Beatification of Joan of Arc seems likely, despite all contrary rumours, to make a decisive move onward. The first documents for the process having been pronounced insufficient, others were ordered, which, apparently, have proved satisfactory. The Consistorial Advoca»e, Professor Alibrandi, charged to answer the official objections of the Devil's Advocate, has performed the duty entrusted to him in a way worthy of the ioterest and importance of the subject. The new documents, compiled by Chevalier Alibrandi, 'will shortly be distributed to the Cardinals and Coneultore of the Sacred Coegregation of Rites.— Weekly Register.