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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 116, 20 May 1876, Page 4

Cardinal Cullen, in his Lenten pastoral to the Catholics of Dublin, asks for prayers for the Pope and for Ireland, that the country may be preserved from materialism, infidelity, and from sedition and revolution. He says that Catholics who join in Freemasonary, Fenianism, and Good Templarism, or encourage such societies, shall be excommunicated from the church. The dentists of the United States have been holding a conversation, for the purpose, as the chairman said, of devising some means whereby they all can pull together. Pht two persons in the same bedroom one of whom has the toothache and the other is in love, and it will be found that the one with the toothache will go to sleep first,, ”, ' A newspaper is a window through which men look out on all that'is goingon in the world ; without a newspaper, a man ds shut in a small room, and knows' little on nothing of what is happening outside :of himself. In our day, the newspaper keeps pace with history and records it. A newspaper will keep a sensible man in sympathy with the world’s current history. It is an enfolding encyclopedia, an unbound book, for .ever issuing and never finished.

The agent for the team of English piofessional cricketers who intend visiting Australia during the next season, received a letter by the last mail'from'Mr "'James Lilly white, stating that Selby and Wild, two of Nottingham’s best batsmen, had agreed to make the trip. There are now fourteen of the best professional players in England to choose from, and as the original team had rather too many bowlers in it, the presence of the two above-named players will materially strengthen it, and make it a good all-round eleven. The team will leave England by the September mail, and will arrive at Adelaide about November, whore, in all probability, the opening match will be played against twenty-two South Australians.