MASTERTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 10, 20 August 1897, Page 5

MASTERTON.

(From our own correspondent.) August 14, 1897. At St. I atnoks s Church. Masterton, on Sunday last at the eleven o clock Mass, a very important announcement was made to a large congregation by the liev. Father McKenna. The Rev. Father intimated to his people for the first time his long-contemplatad project of establishing- a convent in this town. An admirable site has been secured fur the erection of a suitable edifice opposite to St. Patrick s Church, mainly through our pastor's masterly business negotiations with the local Town Lands Trustees. His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Redwood has signified his cordial approval of the scheme and the congregation are a j so wor ki n g enthusiastically to carry it our. Two members of thr Catholic community have aheady respectively donated the munificent sum of L2"> towards its ad\nnc( > in( iiil.i iil. The Tru-t Lands Trustees of Masterton have assigned Z2~> of their tumls as an annual subsidy to i>t. Patiick's "school "here t'ertain laiid-.au> held by the Trust, the annual rentals of which arc devoted to educational purpose*. Mr. M. C. 0 Connell. who has recently taken over our Club Hotel. i* fast coming to the front in local municipal affairs He has been an indefatigable worker on the committee which last Thursday brought to a successful i.s.>uu their efforts to obtain a water-supply tor our town.