CANTERBURY CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 50, 3 April 1885, Page 18

CANTERBURY CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

Am ., ,i, . , Christchurch, March 28. AT the usual weekly meeting of the above Society, two candidates were balloted for and duly elected, and three nominated for election at next meeting. It is very gratifying to have to report tbe foregoing, as it shows that there is a decidedly healthy interest taken in the workings of an institution which deserves so well of all Catholicsyoung and old, rich and poor—to whose support it was so earnestly recommended on Sunday evening last by the Bey. Father Ginaty It is to be hoped that each week will bring similar numbers, so that it win be what it ought to be, a thoroughly representative Catholic oociety. The programme for the evening consisted of extemporaneous addresses on various subjects, suggested by the members and drawn somewhat after the manner of an art union. Very few speakerseven practised orators— would care about speaking on a matter on a moment s notice, still it is pleasing to say that not only did the older but the younger members deliver them freely and well. Among the latter may be mentioned Messrs. Courtney, Nelson, McGill, Barrett CtC»