DUNEDIN CATHOLICS AND THE EVENING STAR.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 24 June 1898, Page 20

DUNEDIN CATHOLICS AND THE EVENING STAR.

The Jin/ri 11-vuUl has the following under the heading ' Covert Attacks ' .—. — -

'The Dunedin L'r. unu/ S'ur w,t< the subject of a few fervid remarks by the officiating p ic-t at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday last, I am to uudeis'and. The newspaper, for a long time past, has been making covert attacks on Catholics. The Tablet hits straight out at it in its is-ue of la-<t week.' The IS nice ][• mhl then quotes, in full, our rein irks on the subject from the Tablet of last week. It then continues: — ■' There was a correspondence in the Slu i leointlv. .ni»ing out of the Spanish- American war, and one of thepirticipants was a minister of a Non-conformist conventicle wherein the uitiuugir of the Star is a shining light. Strange to say, since then all .sorts of articles from obscure corners have been raked up, and the thing has been so glaring that I believe some of the directors have noticed it. and are beginning to ask awkward questions.'