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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 1 February 1900, Page 17

CROWN LANDS OPEN FOR APPLICATION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sections of Rural Lands in the undermentioned districts will be OPEN FOR SELECTION at this Office, either for Cush. Occupation-with-right-of-Purchaße, or Lease-in -Perpetuity, on VVEDNESDAY, the 7th day of MARCH, 1!i()O at capital values, ranering from ."is- to 20s per acres • — CATLINS POOLBURN WOODLAND RIMU RANKLEBURN TUAPEKA WEST. TAUTUKU WAIPORI BLACKBTONE WAREPA OTAKIA Plcins, Areas, and Prices are contained in the Sale Plans shortly to be exhibited at the various Post Offices. Railway Stations, etc. Full information can be obtained at this Office. J. P. MAITLAND, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Otlice. Dunedin, 22nd January, 1900. PATENTS. rp R A 1) E MAR X S A Secured in all Countries. HUGHES, RAYWARD, AND BALDWIN, Patent Agents and Consulting Engineers, O.ui'.r,\'!> Chambehs (opposite the Post Office), Wellington ; And at Auckland, Christoburch, Napier, Dunedin, and Invercargill. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. En'quiukh. — You have not stated the precise difficulty you find in St. Mar/,, xvi., 17-l.s. The Saviour of the world, in this discourse, does not profess to enumerate all the gifts that were to accompany true faith in Him, nor does He promise that they shall be verified in the person of every true believer. He gives those menti ined rather by way of example. And note, that he distinguishes between those that arc 'sick' and those that are po-ss sstd by demons. The mi a.\uiu of the gifts bestowed upon true faith in Him defends altogether en the will of an all-wise Providence The fulfilment of what He did promise is written large in the Arts ol Hi Aposthx and in the history of the Church, even down to the pie-^nt day. The early ages of the Church's life were— a- St. Augustine and Gregory the Great point out — more fertile in the gitts of healing, miracles, etc., than the later ones, for the simple reason that in the earlier times the Church had greater need ol them, placed, as was. in the midst of populations that wrie h< -tile or suspicious and ignorant. Hut is not the fact of the mir\ellous unity ot the Church and her preservation and spread through all times and circumstances and races of itself a striking and stupendous nuracli ' Say if this biicf explanation meets your -pe< uil difficulty WANTED. rpE\CHER w.intcd foi the Roman Catholic School, St. Bathans ; _l must be able to play church music ; apply with references to Mr. O Re»an, St. B.ithan«. D E A T H. OXliu.. — On Monday. January < s >, at his residence, Johnson\ille, John Macatilay. eldest son of the late Edmund O'Neill, of Cushendall, Ireland, aged ?!• years. — R.I. P. 55^ "V j *f f'J O9r W $ CIU p^wd tablet. I' 1 ! AT JI'STITIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. ._ + "w^inj]* 'J' is by virtue of an ancient custom — at least ihJ s ' x wntui'ies old — that the Jubilee falls on this n) ' ti\ ear °^ £ nice 1 (J()^- The first Jubilee of which ■^^(j history bears a written record was proclaimed \jjsJpf by Pope Boniface VIII. in the year 1300. ""xjiOjsf Great numbers of pilgrims — Italian and (PvP/^ foreign — had assembled in Rome in anticipa- **^ ' tion of special privileges and indulgences for the <nwu« (pntcsimvs or centesimal year. No record of any such precedent was found in the archives of the