PETONE CONVENT SCHOOL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 144, 17 December 1908, Page 3

PETONE CONVENT SCHOOL.

More than ordinary interest was attached to the end-of-the-year ceremony at Petone ' Convent School yesterday in view of the fact that, in accordance with tho decision j of the Archbishop, tho sisters who have done such good work in the school wero i saying pood-bye to the pupils, as sisters of another order will tako chargo next year, j The programme of prize-giving, recitations, ! songs, and choruses was a long one, and J was made still more enjoyablo by the kindness of Mesdames Carter and Inglis in providing a well-laden Christmas tree. Certificates of profioiency were presented by Father Maples to the following sixth btandard scholars (teacher, Sister Mary Claude):— Olive Ryder, Stevo Bolton, and Charles Linchan. Tho prize-winners wero as follow:— Christian do~ctrine, Bell Stewart (medal) ; good conduct, Olive Ryder 1, Eileen Luxton 2: attendance, Olive Ryder, Gladys Inglig, Norman Ryder, Clement Goddard (all secured full marks) ; drill, William Hickey and Sarah Scrimshaw 1 and medal, Willio Linehan and Linda Sparks 2; most popular boy, Err.est Sheldrake ; most popular girl, Bell Scrimshaw ; singing, Willie Coles.

In tho second week of October the deaths m New York attributed to heart disease were 13*. as compared with 129 in the corresponding week of 1907. and this increase was ascribed in the official report of the Health Department to tho intense excitement aroused by the baseball match when Chicago beat the Metropolitan team. In his desperate anxiety to witness tile match, one man fell from a roof, breaking hia back; while another fell from a derrick, breaking his neck ; and both of these fatal accidents were primarily due to cardiac disease. Mr. W. Wilson, Revans-street, Newtown, Wellington, N.Z., writes:— "My liver has given me a lot of trouble. Not long ago I had liver blotches all over my face and tried all sorts of things, but obtained no relief. On the advice of a friend I tried Chamberlain's Tablets, and before I had taken two bottles the blotches had disappeared from my face, ond I have not been Uoublecl since, "— Advt.