Occasional Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 348, 19 December 1879, Page 14

Occasional Notes.

Pressueb on our space obliges us to hold over to our next issue a portion of our Melbourne Letter and several other items of interest. The title chosen by Mr. J. J. Crofts for his lecture is " The Land Settlements, and Famines in Ireland." We shall furnish full particulars in our next issue. We would direct the attention of our readers to the programme of the Hibernian Society's Fete, to be held on Boxing Day, the 26th inst., in the Caledonian Society's Grounds. It will be seen that the society has been very liberal in providing such a splendid programme, and deserve hearty support and co-operation in their endeavours to promote amusement. They have for the past four or five years gone to no small amount of expense and trouble in supplying sports for the public, and it is only right that their efforts should be heartily supported, and this can be done in no better way than by patronising them, and thus contributing to the financial success of their worthy enterprise. A distribution of prizes and breaking-up will take place at St. Aloysius College, Waikari, to-day, Friday, at 11 a.m. The Jesuit Fathers will be glad to receive all sucb ladies and gentlemen as may desire to visit their college for the occasion. Their invitation is not restricted to relations or friends of the pupils. The foundation stone of the convent about to be erected at Christchurch by the Sisters of Notre Dame des Missw/it, will be laid on January 4th. His Lordship the Bishop of Duuedin will preach the sermon on the occasion. The Most Rev. the Archbishop Bishop of Auckland, accompanied by the Rev. Fathers Downey and Vagiolli, of the Order of St. Benedict, and two lay -brothers, arrived at Port Chalmers by the s.s. Ringarooma from Melbourne on Wednesday last. The distinguished prelate was received at the Port by the Bishop of Dunedin, who conducted him to this city, and in company with whom he visited the Dominican Convent and the College of St. Aloysius, Waikari. The Archbishop left Dunedin in the afternoon of the same day for the purpose of continuing his passage to Auckland. We understand that several other members of the Benedictine Order are preparing to folio v those who have come out with the Bishop of Auckland for the purpose of establishing a house of their Order in the diocese alluded to.

Mr. Nicholas Smith is about to open a drapery establishment in George street, Dunedin (corner of Moray Place). Mr. Smith is well known as an experienced and uprigbt man of business, with a thorough knowledge of the trade in which he is about now to engage independently, and we are convinced it is only necessary for us to notify his undertaking in order to secure for him an abundant patronage. Mr. John Morrison, George street, Dunedin, may be consulted respecting the. Dunedin Cup, 1880.