CANTERBURY CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 30, 18 November 1887, Page 15

CANTERBURY CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

An ordinary weekly meeting of this Society took place on Tuesday evening, October 8. Mr. R. Lonargan, the President, presided, and 24 members were present. An address to be read to the Eight Rev. Dr. Grimes on his arrival in Uhristchurch by members of the Society was submitted and adopted. It was arranged that his Lordship tha Key. Dr. Grimes should be requested, as a present from the President, to present a gold Maltese cross of exquisite workmanship to Mr, W. Courtney, who, during the past year, has induced the greatest number of persons to join the Society. The programme consisted mainly o£ an elocutionary contest. The " Bachelor's Dream " was the piece telected; the competitors were Messrs. Courtney and Geogeghan. Tha prize, a large and interesting work on Catholic was .bestowal on Mr. Geogeghan. The meeting then terminated.

Tuesday evening, October 1.

On this occasion 24 members were present, and the chair was occupied by the Vice- President uotil the arrival nf the President. After the passing of minutes and other routine business essays were read by Messrs. F. Coop, r imd J. Joyce. For these essays, a prize, consisting o£ a beautituliy bound and illustrated Catholic book, had been offered by Vice- President W. O'Shaughnessy. The voting on the mcii's of the| etsaya resulting in a tie, two pieces of paper were placed in a hat and the book waa awarded to Mr. Joyce as the paper first drawn bore his norn deplume. Mr. Cooper in his essay, t-ketched in a very artistic manner the appearance of the Canterbury Plains as seen from Port Hills and gave an account of their settlement. Mr. Joyce's essay was mainly a narrative of the Societj'a recent picnic to Rhodes Bay,