TROUBLE OVER A HOLIDAY.
RELIGION AND POLITICS. Per Press Association. Received 6, 11.10 p.u. Sydney, March 6. A heated correspondence is going on in tbe newspapers over the action of the Governmt-n- in fi-st deciding that Sc. Patrick's Day should qot be a holiday and then after correspondence with the Cardinal and others, gr.tnting the concession that civil servants be allowed leave to work till noon und 03 piid for the wnole day. Tne concession did not satisfy the Cardinal who suggested that the toasts of tho Government and Parliament bo omitted at the luncheon. Ho hid previously referred to the insult which, through tha weakness of the Government in refusing to grant Sc. Patrick's day as a holiday, had been otiered to tin Catholic body, and predicted the Government's overthrow, significantly u ;Jmg that it would l e idle for the Premier to expect men and women of Irish parentage to oast their votes for himself and his friends if he persisted in refusing the concession. Protestantism is up in arms and is protesting against the Government's Bupinuness in making the concession which, it is apparent, is the result of the Gardibal's political threats.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 57, 7 March 1903, Page 2
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195TROUBLE OVER A HOLIDAY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 57, 7 March 1903, Page 2
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