THE 'DAILY TIMES' AND THE CORK REFOR MATORY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 55, 16 May 1874, Page 7

THE 'DAILY TIMES' AND THE CORK REFOR MATORY.

Our contemporary, in its issue of Tuesday last, endeavors to be very Lard on us, and tells its readers that '• Everyone who read what the T \blet said, knew that by the Queenstown Reformatory the ' Daily Times ' meant the Cork Reformatory, and consequently saw through the Jesuitical falsehood which that journal had allowed to appear in its column*." We take leave to doubt this statement. It is not c -sy to see bow the readers of the ' Daily Times ' must have understood our contemporary to mean the Cork Reformatory, when he distinctly atated that thirty-three females came from the Queenstown Reformatory. The difficulty is increased, to us at all events, who know that there is no Reformatory for Catholic females either in Cork City or Cork County, and who are also convinced there is not one for Protestant females. At Upton, near Bindon, llieiu is a Catholic Reformatory for male-, ai.d for males only. Notwithstanding the authority, then, ii th^ c.ipum and doctor of the Asia, and the testimony of the cabin passenger, we again take leave to say that the statement of the Daily Times' is not true. The ' Times' had better »i\e up this untenable position, and look out for other leasons lor damaging immigration from Ireland. Perhaps- it would suffice for his purpose to develope carefully the Avoiklum^o aigmnent, now that he has at last Tound out the misstateinent of the ' Tippv\ary Advocate.' If the ' Daily Times ' had not been so eayer to discredit immigrants from Ireland — particularly from the of Ireland —he would not have fallen into such laughable mistakes. Whilst on this suljcct, may give expression to an idea that has haunted us for some time. Cuuld it be possible that it was an enemy who had suggested the sending out of people from the workhouse ? Certainly, no more efficacious mode of rendering IrLh immigration unpopular could have been devised. vVe are quite certain that no one who cesired a regular stream ot immigrants from Ireland, and had any knowledge of Otago, would have suggested such a course. By-

and-bye, perhaps, we shall know something more about this matter. Of one thing, however, there can be no doubt : the ' Daily Times ' adopted the course most likely to damage the character of the immigrants by the Asia, and to make them, in this strange — and to many of them inhospitable — country, fitting inmates of a reformatory.