AN EXPLANATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 28, 8 November 1895, Page 19

AN EXPLANATION.

The following correspondence explains itself : —

N.Z. Tablet Office, November 5, 1895.

Dear Father Lynch, — A word as to my resignation of my position on the Tablet ia specially due to yju, not only in your own parson aa my particular friend, but as representing, under his personal blessing, our late beloved Bishop in superintending nay work. I have served a long tarm here — 20 years all to a few weeks, and it would be affectation in me to pretenl to balieva that, on the whole, my record had not been favourable. Oa tha other haul I am not vain enough to Buppose that my resignation can in any way Bffeot the continued Bucsess of the jTablbt, which I shall always have closely at heart— very Bincerely desiring aa I do to see it every year make batter progress, My rela'ions towards everyone connected with this office have always been cordial, and I shall ratlin moat kindly and grateful recollections of them, Australia, howevar, was the scene of my earlier colonial experience, and where that takes place, they say, the immigrant must needs feel most at home. I have constantly

looked forward to returning there some day or another to baat up old friends aad renew old aisociatiom. The opportunity, therefore, that offered itsjlf to ma was notoue that, under the circumstances, I cared to refuse. la all probability nothing of the kind might again occur while I still retained my powers to work, as I hope to do for a few years more, in the good cause in which I hava so lung been engaged in New Zealand, lima doaß not wait for men who are verging on their sixties. — I am, dear Father Lynch, very faithfully yours, John F. Pebbin. Very Rev Father Lynch, Adm.

Bishop's House, Battray street, Dunedin, November 6, 1895 1 — My dear Mr Perrin,— l nm exceedingly grieved —we are all grieved — to learn that you have definitely ma te up your mini to leive New Zealand. You s iid years ago that you thought of goio« back to Australia if suitable opportunity for congenul and r-nvinerative work presented itself, but I did not lo>k upon your leaving Dunedin in tha near future as even probab c. The anexp°ctel has happened. I can ouly say that I deeply regret youi apprjacbing deparuro. Regret and good wishes ming'e. My best wishes and prayers will be yours wherever you are. I cannot help feeling a sense of loneliness at the Josb, so soon after the death of our beloved Bishop, of a true friend, and one for whom Dr Moran had unbounded respect. The sincerest regret of the priests and people of this diocesi will be shared by Catholics and Irishmen thr mghout New Zealand. I know you dislike aoytning that sivours of praisa, but simple truth compels m ' to say that New Zeal ind loses and Austrilu gains a devoted Catholic, a true-he>ir<ed Irishman, and a scholarly and uncompromising Catholic journalist. Wishing you and yours every blessing, — I em yours very sincerely, P. Lynch. John F. Perrm, 8.A., I". CD., Editor Nkw Zealand Tablet.