MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

taC.STtI AI.IAN AND N.Z. CABI.E ASSOCIATION. THE LIQUOR ISSUE. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10. The Finnish Parliament rejected :t bill providing for a new* prohibition referendum.

EXCHANGE OF GOVERNORS. (Received this day at 10 a. m.) CAPETOWN, Feb. 10 Ii is announced that Prince Arthur ol Connaught is returning to Flnglaml in October, when lie will have completed the three years’ term as Gov-ernor-General. Earl Shaftesbury is unofficially mentioned as the probable successor.

POIiITICA I. A PPOIXT.M EXT. LONDON, Feb. 10 Captain Craig has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the .Minister of Pensions, involving his resignation of the Chairmanship of the Ulsterites. EMPIRE EXHIBITION. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) I.OXOOX. Feb 10. It is stated that the Empire Exhibition Guarantee Fund has ream c.I £1.*200.000 sterling, of which C 70.0011 has been spent on exhibition btiihiinux and the .stadium. AX EXGAGE.M EXT. EOXOOX. [VI. 10 Mrs Harold Oubtlock. Eord Forster’s daughter, is engaged to nr Beaumont Pear.se. Chairman of Bank. A LENTEN PASTOR AV.

i | E DUCAT lOX OF CATHOLIC ! BOVS. 'Received this dav at 9.30 a. n.) EOXOOX. Feb 10. Cardinal Bourne, in a l.eiiten pastoral letter, declares that Roman Catholic buys must not lie sent to nonCaiiiolic Public Schools. Me urmn the ueces.-ily lor a truly Christian Catholic Education, and he says it would be ideal to maintain that boys al tending | English Public Schools receive Clnx.-t- ---| inn Education, evt n among schools | founded by Protestant organisations. I There were very many varied religious I teachings, lmt so vagm; it could rarely succeed in leaving a definitely Cliri.stI inn impression on the hoy’s minds. Xo | non-Catholir teacher, howevtr high his ; moral character or extensive his knowledge. could ever stand in loco parentis to the Roman Calholk children. Cardinal Bonnie admits that the comparative rarity m Cnlhnlie Secondary Schools, aline.-,! compels parents in a ( certain social grade to seek secondary education for their children in Protest- • ant schools, lie does not object to Catholics being sent to Ftiiversilies, be- ; tause be is of opinion that youths of eighteen, ought to bo able to hold their I own in religious principles and convictions. lie declare-, lie can conceive no more thoughtless moral crimes than deliberately to deprive a Catholic hoy | in his most impressionable tears of al - j mospbere. and iulluciice surrounding a I Catholic School, and subject him to associations alien to Catholic practice and tr.idifi'oi, and >n m-inv •a r u'ibueel with principles no Ua I hol.c ian nr j eept eve u as a Christian. OUR COMMISSIONER'S MOPES. BOX DON. Feb Id. j Sir James Allen states a special com-1 miltec approved by Sir W. .loynson- j s flicks will repon generally on l lie subi. eL of certain constitutional readjust-1 lilt'll ts. lie confidently an! imputes (be. Executive Council will unanimously ae- i eept a report on V., vlneselay. j |