NEWS OF THE WEEK.

New Zealand Tablet, 2 March 1877, Page 11

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

On Saturday last the employes of the firm of Messrs Milk, Dick, and Co., Dunedin, by which the Nsw Zealawd Tahlbt ie printed and published, were entertained" at a luncheon given by the directors of the Tablet Company on the occasion of the change made in the form of their journal, and in recognition of the satisfactory manner in which the typography under the direction of Mr. Woodifield, and the printing in connection with the paper have always been performed. Mr. J. J. Connor, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided.

Thb news received by telegram, via San Francisco, seems anjthing rather than specifically peaceable. As matters stand at present, it would be quite impossible to predict what turn events may take, but for our own part we cannot see how a war between Russia and Turkey could occur without involving other powers, at least towards its close.

The ship Calypso, which in our last issue we announced as about to sail for London on the 24th ult , was detained at Port Chalmers until Tuesday last.

The Wellington • Times ' makes merry at the expense of certaim gentlemen who, it is reported, design to exchange 01 ago for Mexico, and who, instead of staying to render obedience to the gentle be hests that issue from the Empire City, are, according to the satirizing journal, anxious to embrace dictatorship and revolutionary life. Ifc does not, however, require any very far sighted seer to foretell that ere long the Government of Washington will aye extended it» authority as far as the Isthmus of Panama, and that consequently our emigrated fellow-colonists would find themselves at no distant period citizens of the Great Republic.

The collection made at the dedication of St. Columbkille'w Church, Riverton, on Sunday, the 18th ult., amounted only to £67 instead of £100 as stated in the report of our correspondent.

We have to request that all agents, subscribers, and other parties who are indebted to the N. Z. Tablet Company, will kindly settle their accounts with the Manager of the Company at their earliest convenience, as preparations are about to be made for striking the yearly balance sheet.

Mr. Pearsos has brought an action against the Corporation of Dunedin in their capacity of local Board of Health. The case will be heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court on the 7th instant.

The Winton. correspondent of the • Weekly Times ' saye : — I understand that our Roman Catholic fellow-townsmen have parchased an eligible site upon which they intend at once to erect a chuich. The ministrations of the Rev. Father Higgins are veiy acceptable here, not only to the actual members of hiß communion, but to many others, and it will be well for all when a suitable place of worship is provided.

Thb Cricket Match with the English Eleren commences in Dun«din to-dar. We understand that at the request of his Worship tbe Major, the erent will be celebrated bj the observation of a hfttf holidaj in town.