BISHOP MORAN'S RECENT LECTURE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 342, 28 March 1874, Page 3

BISHOP MORAN'S RECENT LECTURE.

{To tlie Editor.)

Sib, — In your last issue there was a report of Bishop Moran's lecture last Sunday evening, which ended with one of his characteristics tirades against the education system. Ido not coll it lies, for that were to accuse the Bishop of wilful misrepresentation, which I have no intention of doing ; but, when the other side comes to be heard, I have no hesitation in calling it falsehood, for there is no truth in it. The thing itself was false, therefore I charitably hope the intention was otherwise. At the same time, what respect can one entertain for nnj representation that can now he made either by Bishop Moran or his curators where the education system of Otago is concerned ? In every case -where they have attempted to get up a case against it they have proved themselves so credulous, to use no harsher word, that discerning men can only laugh at thoir credulity. Let us therefore hope that this mare's nest of a young man retiring in disgust from' a oonductorship for a school because suspected of being a Roman Catholic, though he was not, but who really retired because he found a more remunerative billet, will be the last we shall hear on such a theme. For the future I advise the public to treat the Bishop and his curates as his neighbors treated the boy who was always crying " Wolf! wolf ! " — Yours, &c, Not to be Done.