NOTES OF THE DAY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2160, 28 May 1914, Page 4

NOTES OF THE DAY.

The anaouaconient lyiijqh appeal's in, our cable calumns. to-day ikai AfiBST Gasotet has been created a Cardinal wilt be -reeeiv-edi with special satisfaction by jinflisjispeaking Konnwt Catholics, tin.. ■ who is.Abbot President of the English BonotUetiMs, is a clistingijlsKed writer, the value of whose historical work is known and appreciated beyond the limits d his own Cowanion. H.e has devoted m.u,eh attention to English eccjesiastieaj aistory, and his viiews oft coatrovert- , ed questions eo-mmand the attention ■oi serious students- who wafti to know ail the available facts and opinions before coming to a eoncktsion. B«t Uifi great work of his Hfo is to I?e_the revision of the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Bi-hlo''pre-pared in the <lih eenturv bv Sf JSRfIMB. The Bcftcdictifle.'Orclii- was entrusted with' this task by Pius X in IOOS, and it -will probibly take Wa-ny years to complete fclw work Be. Gasjjuct is admirably suitfld Cor such an nadertaking by his lea.rni.iif, his temperaments his'lpvetof' acc«1 racy, and his attention to detail. i Tfe. material to he handled is ctjoi , - nwus.. Sfeoftly after h» was appointed President of the Comnjissio-n loathe Revision of fclje Vulgate, th;, Oasquet expressed the opinion that the early manuscripts which will have to bo arrafijj-edt. and examined amount to something like twenty { thousand they are' to ha found' in the-great European libraries and the arefeives attach.ed to cathedrals, and somo of them, arc tjnito unknown' to scholars. Braetlictiiios will kavo to visit these places, ahit if they ea?i- ---■ iiot t«-kc the docutnests to Bora'e they will have to photograph or "copy tJiem._ Such facts na them .giva same idea of the nxtensiveness ot the preliminary work, Tho main object of the revisers is .to roeo-fts-fcruefc as far as po.ss.ibie tlw actual text of St. JBBtHitE, tnat, they will also have "to eensitler ho«' i'ar Bt, Jemme hirusoif was con-tct, Smind judgwient wid ß learning, and a capacity for Sighing !>vid<;-iier- a\-i> essential if success is to erotfn the effovls of Btt, G.\sqvkt and his colleagues. Iμ inviting ih'i Bonc'Jiftior'- O«(cr hi inidflrtakij (lie )'t!vi!-ii!)i. tUiißlxAr. Ra.mpoi.lv, a« President of Ik' Pontifical BiMicul L'oiiintissitii-), stated that its paiiinit aud liv-irnod liitrovirs "in every branch tit ecclesiastical erudition t'orvn a veal inunmnpot of glories iiigttiiwitply won \» [\k cmirso sif many cf-iuiirfes," The Revision of the Vnlgalo pvoraiw-s to siiH further iutljrt Known of this lam.o:us Veiigious Orders

SfiJUOL's railway aecitlcnts are so rare in New Zoa'knt-1 that tlie dis--tressing fatality « tlie Main Trunk Hn-e yt-stsrday will conw «s a very g-ro-at shock to the public So. far as the fncis avaitaliln indicate, the collision scents Ui have been duo to the position of the ebods train into which the nortli-UoHiid passcngpr train plungwj. The driver of tlic "pxpress apparently thought the down goods train had aJvcady cleaved the •pain )Ine on to the siding, whereas only a portion el Hie trucks had done so. Tha trucks, of coui-se, would carry ho lights, and in the. daiiacsS of the early morning the driver of Hie express MrcmU see the engine of the goeds train on ttiß siding, butmay nor, havte seen-the tail end of < the long string of goods wagons crossing his track initil too late, to avoid cnttjttg into tlwni. Tha fact that the goods train was a rory long one may have ewtlibuted-t-o a wiateke of this nature. Where the blame actually rests, however, can only be ascertained after full inquiry, How the station signa-ls stood at the time the express was passing through yefc to be- made knows. In investigating (his distressing accident, tfto authorities must take noto of tho eomplaijats made? -GOHCftrßing the Jack of appJiawes avaitahle fo,r tho work ■of I'csbho. It ia geiieratly . «ndsrstood that- in all trains certain'appliances in ftp way of crowbai'su »PRS, and ascs ase carriedl in case of a«ei4eat pt mi&hap of any Icjjk!. On the pi'o.sent oeeasiott. when they ww badly Jiced«d, ths.v do not. -seem to have been-forth-coming. The dwpsst sympathy will be felt fey the vietifns ef tfe a<!««l6n-t ftnfl fear tli-e relative of fee tvJio SO tafagieally. lost, their lives.

■ The presidential address at • |h< jubifee meeting of the W«l.Ungtoi Uia-moer of Comnierce • yosfeirdaj toti-ehed on » nayiber of jinporta.ni qiiestioas in an iji-toegfciftg jiianner. and on o.n.e .p;r two qi tlnso U% Jones was agnjcab-Iy outspok&n, 'Hi.! rejovotiwi to %c split in. the fer-as of those, aseociiitcd' with local trad< iulcl StuiiraeyCij, dfe to the formatiir of a, second Chamber t>i (ionmem ffere, praM>ly will apj)oal fardiMj to thaso wljo tftfce b, disp,a?sionat< new of tho situution, Sβ gooi i'easoi) Ijas bean forfehepm-iog-' to support the itlc;i that a seeond body oi the kind is at tlio mmeqi citki necessary or desirable. It must b< apparent that ass the whole the intqtosts @f both bedios aro paetieallj W-eijtical. The memters of huik hav-f the coßitHoa de-sire to Remote, tjn weuai'o <sf the ?ity and c6MntJrysid« Jft. which their tradijig an.d bfeißes concern-3 arc Bihtatedj im4 they aw all anxious to soe the' Dominion PT&gfess with all possible sp;t:c4 ai»nf sound. a«d ■steWo lines, it awav be snggested thiit fe etcatioft af u sceantl Cha-mber may groraiote a hoaltliy and stimii.kting; rivalry, bail 1% js sci'jcnmJy often to dmbb whethei tho commemal interests of the comrmmit? at-c lively to be advanced bj this'means. On the thivw is a very red risk ti»j'%' wcighl iind inilueiwo 'which, amU be fclscd by one I?«.ge.asi4 pawuffiil boil} Will be to some extent ,at kmk dis sipatod by a divi?ii»"irf %mn. Thavi is ample outlet for ( the enfisgics ajit fijitlrasiasiH vf iiieiijbers af the sic*, My mukv tha banne-r of tfjoioM, Without iii any way reffeetiiig art flu work of tlic C%tt.-wLvei% is x\c doubt, scoije -foj' greater aetivrty on its'part, a-Bc! especially at tlwTprc I sent time, \v.!iCT> { as was poiateiJ ouf j»t yosterdajf's meeHag, there mx mitt a Bttffiber of matters ca-Hiaf for tfee uflitc-d .actioj). of those ifltoresfeclin t : ke s.dvatteo'm.onfco.f WijtiflKjoti City and Province, Notable amoßgst thoEc, of cotitss, is tho openiiig tip and dovolopiiietil; of tte bip steiteji of cottntjfjr an ijia Bast Cg.aai r-nnchiilg • fi'ow Wairajrapa tc Hawfto's Biiy. Mil. $•• lil, .li-t'.li'B. iJ-residenti ef the .new C'ha.tti.bcr, sii:.g : gesled ilia! the iwa kifijics m%W [teork togotte in this-and 'o-tlicj matters-. Kβ doubt tlwy epuW do so, but they poxdd: w«\k sti.ll iijoi;e e.ftecttwly S3 one strong organisation.

ExoEPKos is bf a ccarrcspraiient, "V'U-Qx JHshiiKMu" to' the action of Dur Oamils, and Mn. Jlar■JiS in 'sending c?aMcg.r : affi3 to SIR. ASQUITH affld Mil. JOMN ist). moSd, evading -coagratulatipits ''.from the Irish, people of and'.on tic passage el the Home Rule Bill thi'oiigh tfe IJ-onse of, Coinmoii-?. Oβf co,ri'(iss.ottdettt eewiplahvs that the gcnMcnip/n named- have no authority to speak for , the Irish peepj-o, in New Zealand-, and tifkt the messages in GoßsufjiKßea are grossly misleading. Mie matter is fa-clly worth w_ vielmrt pv.ot.est which ''Utete? Irish-reran" makes, and cortainly docs not ttarairt the ex&teftg atm-se with whieh he supports his views, 'fberft is Hot the slightest tkrofet that ft good piaaiy of 'the Irish peeple in New Zealand, and teiaftj' who arc not Irish) &ve iio sympathy whatever with the Homo Rule Bill a.3 at present framed, On tbo contyatfy, white not opposed feo tLft part of Ireland whie.li desires it havintr Home Iviloj they strongly fese.irt the idea of Ulster '-being coerced into imiftg its present assotiatioti with the Btitjsii Piirlkmcufci a.ncl being forced , u-mlcr the domination \ of ail Irish Paflkpoftt, The eabferaras soul by Pit. C,\am> and Ms. MaJitiji Krnkedy might havp. bcon iiiord cmbfuUy woi**l, but it is daiibtful if tjh,ej' will fflisjdad aiijone. Alloivaneu usually is mftfJe in sitch oases foi , the cuthtisiasm of.the senders.