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New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1915, Page 34

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Registration of Catholic Schools We direct attention to the reference winch we have elsewhere made to some important provisions of the new Education Act bearing on the registration of Catholic schools. We will be glad to answer any inquiries and to explain matters further to any of those interested who may still be not quite clear as to the position. A Gentle Hint We are sorry to note that one of our esteemed Australian contemporaries is developing a mild form of kleptomania. With ever increasing frequency, and half unconsciously no doubt, it 1 lifts ’ whole articles, editorial or contributed, bodily from the columns of the N.Z. Tablet, without the faintest hint or whisper of acknowledgment. We are glad, of course, that Tablet matter should be deemed of sufficient interest to merit reproduction, and we are far from being scrupulously particular about a formal acknowledgment for every little' scrap or paragraph that may bo made use of. But when lengthy editorials, or articles which have been headlined as special to the N.Z. Tablet, are transferred, we feel called upon to suggest, in the friendliest possible way, that it would be an act of bare justice to give some indication of the source from which they are taken. We are quite sure that this gentle hint

will be sufficient, and that our contemporary ’-will make a successful effort to overcome its little infirmity." The Lusitania: Some Irish Victims The Irish National V olunteer, after referring to the great loss sustained by the death of Father Maturin, who, as it states, was a Dublin man, proceeds to give particulars of other notable Irish victims of the Lusitania tragedy. ‘ Another Irish victim was Sir Hugh Lane, whose priceless services to art had enriched the Irish Capital, and . whose death robs our country of a man of rare genius who has no successor. A third victim was William O’Brien Butler, a musical composer whose achievements were marked by exceptional brilliancy, and gave promise of still more fruitful results. To Ireland his splendid talents were entirely devoted. He was an Irish-Irelander in the best sense of the term.’ r Flanders The reflections which might naturally be expected to occur to those who, through the patriotism and sacrifice of others, are able to sit at home in safety and comfort are effectively crystallised in the following lines in a London paper:—— ‘ Under the lee of the little wood I’m sitting in the. sun • What will be done in Flanders Before the day be done? Under my feet the springing blades Are green as green can be; 11’s the bloody clay of Flanders That keeps them green for me. Above, beyond the larches The sky is very blue ; ‘‘lt's the smoke of hell in Flanders That leaves the sun for yon.” By nests in the blossoming elm-tree The wise rooks rock on bough. What blasts of hell, in Flanders, Fire the bareil branch now?’