AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 249, 11 March 1913, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

RELIGION IN SCHOOLS. I>y Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, March 10. iA pastoral letter bv Archbishop Kelly dealing with the duties aikl responsibilities of parents in connection with State school scholarships was read in the Roman Catholic churches. Reviewing the position tiie Archbishop declares: "Compromise upon the religious character of the school is held by us Catholics as out of the, question. Indignant rejection isthen our only self-respecting attitude towards the departmental insidious proposal. We say your free tuition in your newly-fangled higher shrine of. indifference may go to perdition so far as Oat-holies are concerned." MR. McGOWEN RETIRING. Sydney. March 10. The Daily Telegraph says it may autlioritively state that after the present Parliament Mr. McGowen will not only relinquish the Premiership, but will retire altogether from active political life. A DEPARTING GOVERNOR. Sydney, March 9. At the Parliamentary farewell banquet to Lord Chelmsford Mr. McGowen, after eulogising his excellent work as Governor of N'eiv South Wales, said he believed that Lord Chelmsford's constitutional knowledge would bo of advantage to the Old Country as well as Australia if at some future time he returned to fill a more exalted position.