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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 20, 13 February 1891, Page 19

Mr. Jim n s O'DnscoU has commenced work at the bootmakers' trade in premise* n. Xt Carroll's Hot =1, George street, Dunedin. The work turned out by Mr. O'Driscjll, b >th as regards workmanship and materul, will mvamb'y be the b -st of its kind.

The lion William Gibson, el lest son of Lord Ashb urne, has b'on leceivod mti the Catholic Cnurch by the Key. \V. D. Strapping SJ, at Oxford. Lord Ashbourne is Ljri Chancel'or of Ir>>hn ), „nd his brother, who at oni tioii represented the Wilt n Division of Liverpool, is another mfmber of the lush Ju henry. The Duke of Norfolk is at present in Lourdes with his son, the youn,' Karl of Arundel ami Surrey. The poor boy has been a h 'lpUss cripple from his birth. This is the third vitit of the duke to Lourdrs. It is ti be hoped tnat Got will reward his unwavering tru9' in the Bits el Virgin.

The Cologn- \»lki y.-itunn announce? a bill to be submitted to the German Imperial Pailianu-nt early this veir. providing for the restitution to the Catholic Church of trie entire accumu'ated capital firmed by tho priests' silaiie3 wh cv were coati^cited during the anti-Catholic agitation. A letter in defence of Catholic doctrines by the Reverend Alfred Young. C.S.P., a new and z;alous member of the Catholic Truth Society, drew from Key. Lym-ui Abbot, odnor-in-chief of the Christian U i n, the astonis ing admission " that the Protestant minister in attacking fcionvunsm ordminiv misrepresents wnat he is eadeavouring to ciitic^e " In the German National Church of the Aninaa in Rome there is a Scuola Gregonana for the reform of Church music lv Italy. Signor Galignani, choir-master of the Duomo cf Milan, ins late y b^en pres.vit"iit a servic in th » Anitm. in oMi rto hste'i to the mu«ic or the Greg'MU'i a, and has -i cc puo'ished i most lUttenng report in his revi"W, Mn\iri Sacra, in whici he assigns the post of honour among the choirs m 1 ay t) the Germvis of the above school. On OMobvT 2.? the >cuoli went to Ars >h, a sen ill to-vn on i feudal estate of Prince M^simj, to '•in^ a " Pilestrini '' service — the Prince, who is a great lover of ar . payinsr all expenses and entertaining the choiristi-rs in his cast c. The correspondent of the Popolo Romano describes the singing of the cnoir as m isrerly. Taken with fie opinions expresse 1 by Sgimbati Fihppi (late y deceasid), and other Italian musician , these appreciations seen to give ground for hope ttiat the devout Palestrini ecclesiistical music may soon be restored to honour in its own country,