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THE ADVOCATE.New Zealand and the Irteh Caaee.The following cablegram appeared»n the Dublin Freeman'*:—Welbngton. Kabruary 22nd. New Zealand mission terminated, ‘•teat success. Cabled four thouaand five hundred, lirat instalment, fur maintenance loyal pledft-bound Parly. Include dissentients and factionlsta I rum participation.MARTIN KENNEDY.”The Comet Hoax.MNTTEICCI DISOWNS PREDICTION*.I lie statement was oablod from I-on-«lou early in February that Profeaeor Mat V'uco. director of tho Astronomi-• al OilWrvatorj on Mount Vesuvine, hud predicted that there would bo a Ci-'lNion fietwoen tho earth and a cornet in March. The cable rneaaago wo* based upon n letter published in Italy, the substance of which nppoar-nl in most of the leading newspapers of Europe. Scientists, howover. did imt fake it seriously, and their attitude was justified by a subsequent statement in the Daily Telegraph of Eehruary 25. from it. Milan correspondent. as follows — Profeasor Matteucci disowns the letter which upjieared yesterday in an Italian newspaiwr over his signature, stating that a collision between the earth and u comet would take place during March, with appalling consequences. Ihe diHlingulshed n.lronornrr affirms Hint he did not write the letter, which is supposed to lie the work of a prar-tirel joker.The fevernntfnt and Grazing Area Leases.The holder, of griming area lease)* l ave the right to take a selection out of the lease at 10*. mi acre for third-cla.v* land, and the lease can then be Kurreudsrwl in turn from ouo member lt;( the family to another, each of them Inking « selection out of it The Cain-in t, in the first instance, decided that all selection* out of giSRing area leases 'IwHild h« subject to a revaluation, butOf a Bull and a Comet.In Lb« February number of tbo * Month, the editor, Kr. Gorord, tt.J., Iw* an amusing article entitled Oi a Hull uud a Comet.” And it is hardly necessary tlt;, arid fsayo tho Tablet'') that, unlike our eon temporary- the Smart Set, it furnishes us with instruction as well ua amusement. That a Pojie,- .^ays Kr. Gerard, did once suloiuiily ban uud onathomatiso a comet, bidding it lu-gone from the sky. is un old story, much in favour with oertam writers who lovo to doacant on the ignorance and ineptitude of our pn-Bcientihc ancestors, as oontraatod with our own enlightened age, when no one speaks of what he docs not know. *r maki's statements which he is not nvidy U support by conclusive evidence. It ia certainly an oki story, and as such it comes to ua with all tho “eight and authority ot a venerable tradition. And the critiq, has little difficulty in citing a host of highly respectable writers, among them being ••mioerit men of science, who have told it with salisfaction, and taken it as a t vpioal oaae of Popish superstition mid credulity But when he comes to nak for tho conclusive evidence, it is conspicuous only by it* absence. And tho reader is left wrth thp painful impression that these rMip.ctabla writers have given currency to the tale without taking proper earn to impure into its truth It would seem that, after all, i Ins tale of a Cornet, and a Hull must, he classed in the same doubtful category a* the celebrated storv ot a Cock and „ Bull.In the opinion of the Canfrnal-Airhbishop of Sydney tlie c*vaattoii ol Government -lubsiduv. will result in a closer union ol ihe clergy and their congregations in Fiance. *■ The real hope of religion, said he, as tlie world is Militated nowadays, is the union of the priests and pooplo, and 1 think the system by which the clergy luive to rely on the religions spirit ol tho people eveu for their subsistence is the moat desirable, and tho one that ensures tho happiest result# to both partioa.”The ' Age ' announced on Wednos-day i tmt the Gove in merit had decided to purchase the Melbourne Hospital *ite« and building* f*r £.'110,1100. and n dihpone ol the land for business proiniaea Before Mr Ih-nt vent toI.' I 1 J .. L ______I
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Melbourne Advocate
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Sat, Apr 13, 1907
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