AT WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 19

AT WELLINGTON

From an esteemed Wellington correspondent we learn that Slattery and the slum nun have fallen on evil times in Wellington. As in other places where the Pink Pamphlet? have circulated, not one Protestant clergyman had, at the date of our curresp 'ndent's letter (February 12). given the smallest countenance to the roving pair ot professional blander-mongers. A new and us( ful departure has been locally inaugurated in the spreading of the light up >n the Slattery ?• by the enterprise of Whitaker Brothers, the Catholic booksellers. Right undermnth the SlatteryV brief announcement oi their lectures in the local papers, Messrs. Whitaker ha\e a lengthy and well-dixTilayed advertisement worded as follows- — 'The Truth about the SlatUrj-*. ./(»>< />/> Sltitti n/ 'Jin Uniiiuiti of an Inf rot In! I'nist, Mr\. Shiftily tin Konitinee ot a Shu in \u n By Rev H. \\ Cleary, Eiitor of the N.Z. Taiu.i/i. Pm e2d . by P'>- L 2'<l. Sole Agents Whitaker Brother-*, Bookseller-.. Cuba stre. t and Lamb' on Quiy." This shot hit fair m the bulls-eye. Vi c understand tint .Slattery a agent, an Orangemen named Williamson, waited upon Mr. Whitiker and endeavoured to coax or bully him into withdrawing the light-shediing advertisement. Mr. Whitaker. however, is not to be bulked. And the advertisement remains there as a reminder to all fair-mindel citi/eii* ot the discreditable career of an unhappy creature who was dismissed from his high oiHce for intemperance and imprisoned for the sale of indecent li erature. and of that of his female eompam >n who was probably never a Catholic and who is certainly a vulgar and proven impostor. We compliment Whitaker Brothers on their enterprise and pluck.