CANTERBURY CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 29, 7 November 1884, Page 15

CANTERBURY CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

Monday, Oct. 27, 1884. THE president announced that owing to His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Redwood ) going south soon after his arrival ia Christchurch, his Lordship's visit was deferred until his return, due notice of which would be given the members. The business appointed for the evening, was therefore postponed, and that of the succeeding evening substituted. 6

A letter from Mr. Maskell to the president, Mr. O'Connor, was read, in which he expressed his best wishes for the Society's welfare and an intimation of a present to the Library of a Catholic Dictionary. This boob, was laid on the table and shown to the members. It is a large, well-bound woik, and is replete with Catholic information. It is a work, which, as Mr. Maskell has said,- no Catholic library should be without. A vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the donor, and a clause added that it should remain in tbe Library as a work of reference only. Mr. R. A. Lougbnan consented to deliver a lecture on the following Monday. The remainder of the evening was very pleasantly spent. Among the items was displayed a beautiful piece of elocutionary art by Mr. Letters. Tbe piece selected was " Toll's Address to his .Native Mountains." Mr. Loughuan sang Moore's " Shamrock," and Dr. Bakewell also read from Moore, " When First I Met 1 bee," and explained the circumstances in connection with George IV. that gave tbe poet the opportunity of writing the piece. Mr. W. Geoghegan also gave a reading, and Mr. Leahy contributed a song, which were warmly applauded.