Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 18, 10 May 1923, Page 21

Answers to Correspondents

Mr. Prbndeville (Chatham Islands).Thanks for the only radio message we got on cur Jubilee day. To Many Others. — Our best thanks for your kind messages and congratulations. The clergy, nuns, and laity who sent us greetings will kindly accept this notice as the acknowledgment of a busy editor. J. L.—Letter to hand. You forgot to say what quantity of stones you wanted broken, also what screw is offering, whether there is board and lodging thrown in, and whether you supply salt or sugar with porridge. W. J. M. (Hawera). — for fetter. We have been so busy getting ready our Jubilee issue that it was not possible to do as you suggested up to now. Later on we will. Reader. Here is a brief answer that ought to silence your Protestant friend who tells you that Catholics are not allowed to read the Bible; The Church has granted, through Pope Leo XIII., December 13, 1898, to all the faithful who shall read the Scriptures for at least a quarter of an hour an indulgence of three hundred days to he gained once a day. Veritas.— There are good grounds for suspecting that Henry VIII. was related to Anne Boleyn both by consanguinity and affinity before he married her. As for Elizabeth she ran true to her breeding. Any jury would convict her, on the evidence, of unlawful relations with her favorite. H. J. H. writes to us to point out that Mr. Massey is losing his memory. The Prime Minister declared that in all his experiences petitions had never succeeded in reversing the original positions.. Has he forgotten so soon? One word with the Speaker of the House would ' set his memory right. Mr. Statham did upset an election, and when he won he resigned and fought it again. That was sportsmanlike, and puts him on a different plane |rom the Oamaru pot-hunter, “Onlooker”. account of Mosgiel’s bigotry does not astonish us. Mosgiel is just the sort of damp, foggy, coud place in which poisonous weeds would thrive. It ought to bo made widely known that the local parson went from house to house snivelling about the terrible evil it would be to vote for a Catholic. And the suc- ' cessful candidate’s appeal for support on the grounds that he sang in a choir somewhere or other is great. Why, he is as well qualified for Cabinet honors as Nosworthy ! If the people who circulate such lies about Catholics as are told at election times are contemptible guttersnipes, we can only say that the people who are influenced to vote by such lies are a strong argument that some human beings descended from a degenerate ourang-outang. Considering their numerous presence in this country we are not surprised at the filth of society as revealed by the criminal statistics. Westport Reader.— not try yourself, sir? We cer- " tainly could do with a letter from Westport now and then! So that if / you undertake to send us news, or V ' if you are able to induce some other trustworthy friend to do so, we shall be very pleased. But we are not : anxious for news of Westport’s .champion steed. The '■[h owner might object to our giving away his form before *; /■he'-- is ready to slip him for the New Zealand Cup, V . Seriously, we would welcome news from all centres on

* the Coast. So sleep over it. Any volunteers from Reef ton, Hokitika, and Kumara ? Ahaura remembers us now and then, Greymouth too, but both hod oftener than Homer. R. D. (New Plymouth).Mick McQuaid was never published in book form. It was carried on for years by father and son. Lieutenant-Colonel Lynman used to give readings from it at one time, and it is possible that some of them may have been collected in a book, but we have never seen it. It is a pity that the best of it was not preserved, as it was a masterly satire and rich in humorous Incidents. It was far better than most of what is called American humor. J. Douay. —Many thanks for pointing out the mistake about Glenrowan. Of course it is in Victoria. Shortly after the Sydney-Melbourne train leaves Albury the spot is usually pointed out by some of the travellers. Mast people do not know that when the hotel was burning, Father (now Bishop) Gibney went in amid a hail of bullets from the police who were firing into the flames, to attend to the spiritual wants of the men in the death-trap.