LATE BURNSIDE STOCK REPORT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 1 February 1900, Page 15

LATE BURNSIDE STOCK REPORT.

(Per special favour Messrs. Stronach Bros, and Morris.)

Wednesday, 5 p.m

Fat C vttle. — 200 yarded. Prices about the same as last week. Best bullocks, LS to L 9 ; medium, LG .Is to L 7 1,1. Best cows and heifers, LG to L 0 17s Gd ; medium, L 4 10s to L.I 15s ; others, L 3 to L - .I.s.

Shkei'. — 21.10 penned. Prices showed a decline of about Is per head. Beat crossbred wethers, 14s Gd to 15s 3d ; medium, 13s (id to 14g 3d. Best ewes, 13s to 14s 3d ; medium, 12s to 12s 9d.

Lambs — 472 penned, all meeting with a fair demand at last week's rates. Best lambs, 11s to 11s 9d ; medium, 10s to 10s 9d.

Pic;s — 1.10 forward, prices ruling in favour of buyers. Suckers, 7s to KM (vl ; slips, 13s to 10a ; stores, 18s to 22s ; porkers, 26a to 30s , bj.-oi.t;.-, 34s to 41s.

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Vatican; but some aged men — one of them 107 years old — testified that, just a century before, their parents had gone to Rome to share in the privileges of a centenary Jubilee. The oral testimony laid before Boniface VIII. regarding the centesimal indulgence of a.d. 1200 finds what looks like a curious confirmation in an entry made by a German chronicler, Alberic of Three Fountains, long before the proclamation of the Jubilee of 1000. It is quoted by Father TiiUß:vrox in an article on ' The Year ot Jubilee ' in Lhe Mouth for December. Under th" year 1208 (and, curiously enough, not 1200) Albkrk has the following significant remark : ' It is said tint this year, 1208, was celebrated as the fiftieth year, or the year of Jubilee and remission, in the Roman Court.' If the date is puzzling, it at least reduces the difficulty of giving credence to the oral witness of the old men to Pope Boniface VIII. Father Thurston finds at least a possible confirmation of Alberic's entry in the pilgrimage of Giraldus C uibrensis to Rome for devotional purposes about the same time, his visits to the great churches and shrines, and the special indulgences of which he speaks.

Jubilees in the Catholic Church do not, however, depend in any way upon points of history or immemorial custom. They are a matter of theology, and are intimately associated with the power of the keys and the doctrine of penance and indulgences. The evidence, written or oral, of pre\ ious Jubilee years might, indeed, have served as an incentive to Boniface VIII. to proclaim a.d. l;>00 as a year of special remission. But the absence of any such record could not have prevented him giving a suitable, if fresh, application to an ancient and practical doctrine of the Catholic faith. When he proclaimed the year IbOO a time of Jubilee he was, none the less, unquestionably acting in accordance with a conception of a year of special remission which had been current in the minds of Catholics before his time. As Mich, therefore, he proclaimed it. He offered its privileges to all the faithful who, being duly confessed and truly repentant, should pray during a specified number of d.ns in the gre;iler churches of the Eternal City. The Christian .Jubilee had its protot)pe in the .Jewish. Thih occurred e\ery fiftieth year, when slaves received their freedom, the earth was to lie fallow, and land and houses in the open country or in villages, without walk, were to revert to their original owners or their heirs. It is in imitation of this that the Church proclaims from time to time a year of remission : but in her case it is a remission from the bonds and penalties of sin. It was also probably in imitation of the sabbatical year of the Jews that Clemkxi 1 VI, at the request of the people of Rome, proclaimed the stcond Jubilee in 1850. In the troubled times t-hat followed Urban VI. reduced the period to :>.> years, partly because it was believed to correspond w ith the age of the Saviour of mankind at His death, but chiefly with a view to afford the children of the Church an opportunity of enjoying the benefits of the Jubilee three times, instead of twice, in the century, and thus enabling them to receive its advantages once in the average lifetime. Only one Jubilee was celebrated under this arrangement — that of 1423, in the days of Pope Martin V. In 1450, says Father Tuntsrox, 'the older and more natural period of s<) years again asserted itself, only to be replaced in turn after the decrees of Paul 11. and Sixtts IV. with a 25 years' Jubilee, so that every generation of Christians might normally hope to see during the time of their manhood the occurrence of at least one such holy year of pardon. From 1 H5, when this arrangement iirst came into force, the celebration's succeeded each other uninterruptedly every 25 years, and that of 1775, in the beginning of the pontificate of Pius VI., was the eighteenth.'

The present year's Jubilee is the twentieth of Mhieh history has a record. The pressure of politics and war prevented the proclamation of Jubilees in 1800 and 1850. During the early part of 1800 ' the Holy See,' as Father Thukston points out, ' was vacant, the world was at the feet of Napoleon, and the new Pope, Pius VII., elected at Venice, did not come to Home until July, llence the nineteenth Jubilee was deferred until 1825.' During the three first months of 1850 Pope Pius IX. was still in exile in Gaeta, having been driven out of Borne on November 24, 1844, by the violence of the revolutionaries who had

murdered his Minister, Count Rossi, and formed a provisional government in the city under the triumvirate of Mazzini (the apostle of political assassination) and his notorious associates, Safki and Aumkllixi. This led to the abandonment of the Jubilee, which would otherwise have been proclaimed in l*f>o. The fierce political passions brought into Rome in thj wake of the Piedmontese Government in 1870 still raged in the Eternal City in 1875. The Jubilee was, nevertheless, proclaimed. IJlil Ihu pilgrimage to the tombs of the \postlcs was not prescribed, and the solemn opening of the Porto Santo or Holy Doors in the four Basilicas of St. Peter's, St. John Latvian's, Santa Maria Macjoiore, and Sh. Paul's beyond the Walla did not take place. Like the ' King's Gate' at Jerusalem, the Porlii timid, or 'Holy Gate' in Rome is, as Cardinal Wiseman says, ' never opened except for the most special entrance.' The four such gates in the Eternal City have been walled up since the Jubilee of 1825. They were formally opened on Christmas Eve after the recitation of singularly apt prayers from Scripture and other solemn ceremonies which symbolised the opening or commencement of the year of Jubilee. The Jubilee began with Christmas in memory of an ancient custom that for a time existed of making the Feast of the Christ's Nativity — not inappropriately — the opening day of the year. The fanfare of trumpets, the thundering salvoes fired as salutes from the Castle of St. Angelo, and other ceremonies that gave an added splendour and impressiveness to the proclamation of of the Jubilee when the Popes were still kings of Rome, are now omitted. But the spiritual significance of the year of remission remains unaltered.