EXPULSION OF JESUITS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 949, 17 October 1910, Page 8

EXPULSION OF JESUITS.

Preaching 011 - the subject of religious orders at St. Mary's last.. Aight, the R«w Father Venning' referred to the cables that had been coming to New Zealand, 'duringrthe w«ek ; regarding the; Jesuits. He quoted irom. :^he': last Tuesday V, Dominion/ as to one' of. the real reasons for which they were expelled from Portugal.. He also referred to a' cable of ...Friday, last, which said'.'The Protestant Alliance is.'-peti-j tioning- the' Government .. to 'give force , to :the. 'Act,of 1829; "Jesuits from . entering Britain." ' 1 . The Jesuits were in' ■ Britain already,, said Father; Venning.. ' One of them was Father. Bernard Vaughan, so well known; ,A few years ago a" Jesuit .had ,been sent, by : 'the ..' English . .Government ' to Trinidad to make astronomical- 'observations,- and ' had . carried out , , his - work - well.; Another Jesuit was at; the present tdme employed .by .the British Government on similar work; in California, and when he waa finished ; in, California lie was going to the South Sea Islands on another mission.' . .Father Maher, another. Jesuit,, was the: great-, est living authority on psychology, and his works were in ..the"reference library; of Victoria College.Other ~ eminent" British Jesuits included Father Martindale, . noted . for, his,' history. of religions. . t/y./-/' : .;;.V;:;/''-V/.;.^/.;: