MARIST BROTHERS' FUND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 6, 7 February 1901, Page 18

MARIST BROTHERS' FUND.

We have been requested by the Rev. Father O'Shea, Wellington, to acknowledge receipt of the sum of £22 from Timaru, per Mr. M. F. Denneby, also an additional £1 3s 6d from Reef ton, on behalf of the Marist Brothers' indemnity fund ; Greymouth, £7 10s ; Pahiatua. £5 16s 6d ; and other small sums. We (N.Z. Tablet) have also received and duly forwarded to the Rev. Secretary the following additional sums per Mr. John Scanlon, Hororata, Canterbury : Mr. John Scanlon, 10s ; Mr. Michael Murphy, ss ; Mr. Richard Marshall, ss. In forwarding these amounts Mr. Scanlon writes . ' After perusing the clear and lengthy statements relating to the persecutions that some of the Marist Brothers have undergone in connection with the Stoke Orphanage, I expected to see the contributions come in more freely. But I think that if the Catholics had read the proceedings in the House of Representatives, as reported in Hansard, they would be more generous in their donations towards the above fund, and they would also learn something of the underhand tactics adopted by some, and the unmanly, unjust, and bitter attitude of several other members of our Colonial Parliament. I think the thanks of the Catholic community are due to the Right Hon. Mr. Seddon for the fair and manly stand taken by him on that most trying and unpleasant occasion.'