A STORM BREWING.

Evening Star, Issue 4098, 15 April 1876, Page 3

A STORM BREWING.

It seems there was something like a row at the door of St. Patricv’s School, Lawrence, on Monday evening last, just before the opening of the usual fortnightly meeting of the local branch of the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society. At a meeting of this society (remarks the ‘ Times’) held lately, a report of which we extracted from the Dunedin ‘Tablet,’ it appears that the Rev. Father Larkin threatened to resign his office of Chaplin if the President (Mr M. Whelan) persisted in sending his child to the public school. On Monday evening Father Larkin stood at the door and refused the President admittance. The brothers were uncertain what course to adopt. At first they thought of retiring from the building and not bolding the meeting, but on second thoughts considered the best course to adopt was to open the meeting and then adjourn it. Instead of at once adjourning, however, some business was done, and a resolution to the following effect was unanimously adopted :—“ That in consequence of the extreme course adopted by the Rev. Father Larkin, immediate steps be taken to procure another meeting room for the branch, if the President is not to be admitted.”