DUNEDIN CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 17, 27 August 1897, Page 6

DUNEDIN CATHOLIC LITERARY SOCIETY.

THEusual weekly meeting of the Dunedin Catholic Literary Society was held m the rooms. Rattray street, on Friday last Rev. Father Murphy, president, occupied the chair, and, despite the boisterous evemn- a fair number of members put in an appearance Mr. \\ , J. titzpatrick was elected a member of the Society Mr. h. Dobbin occupied the Society's attention for upwards of an hour and a half in his recital or lecture entitled '• A Story from the Classics lhe recital was admirable, and one of the best efforts yet made before the Society. Mr. Dobbin showed that he was posseted of a wonderful memory and dramatic ability of no mean

The speaker received a hearty round of applause at the conclusion of hi* lecture, and on the motion of Mes.srs Marlow and J. J Connor, Mr. Dobbin was accorded n hearty vote of thanks for his able and highly instructive lecture