NELSON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 242, 21 December 1877, Page 19

NELSON.

[PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

The Nelson Hibernian Society held a Quarterly Meeting on the 10th iust., for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, Bro. Hunt presiding. Bro. Bunny said, "He had great pleasure in proposing Secretary Bro. Ward as President. Bro. Ward was the fittest person in the Society to preside at their meetings. The members of the H.A.C.B.S. had witnessed the zeal- displayed by Bro. in forwarding the interests of this Association, and, under the presidency of such ;m energetic officer, the Society would gain Ijjucb." This proposition was seconded by Bro. Kavanagh, and carried unanimously. Bio. Kavanagh proposed Bro. A. C. Frank as V.P., which was carried without dissent. Bro. Ward proposed, " That Bro. A. M. M. Kavanagh be elected Secretary to the Branch." — Carried unanimously. The Treasurer — Bro. Armstrong— was reelected for the ensuing year. The Hon. Mr. Larnach, Colonial Treasurer, accompanied by Judge Broad and some of the leading citizens, visited St. Mary's Schools on the 10th inst. To show his appreciation of those popular schools, the Colonial Treasurer handed Rev. Father Garin the generous sum of £10, to be distributed as prizes among the pupils. After Vespers last Sunday, twelve young ladies attending the Convent School here were received as J4J 4 Children of Mary." The Sisters of the Mission deserve the highest credit for the edifying manner in which those ceremonies are earned out. Upwards of sixty young ladies, who are being educated in the Convent, formed a procession and proceeded to the Church, singing hymns. All the young ladies were tastefully attired in -white: emblematic of the vows they were about to take.

This Aveek we had some rain, but not sufficient to repair the damage done to the crops from the drought. In the surrounding agricultural districts he crops arc a total failure, so much so that cattle and sheep are turned in on them.