(From our Timaru correspondent.)

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 7, 17 June 1898, Page 6

(From our Timaru correspondent.)

The Aloysian Catholic Club held their first debate of the session on Tuesday last, the subject being Napoleon v. Wellington. Mr. T. L. Harney championed Napoleon, while Mr. M. F. Dennehy lei on the side of Wellington. The Rev. Father M-Donnell, chairman, summed up, and on a vote being taken, a majority declared in iavour of Napoleon, the voting- bang Xapok-on 2(i. Wellington ID. On Sunday the Feast ot Corpus Chribti special devotions were held in honour of the Ble^ed .Sacrament. The sanctuary was decorated with flowers and evergreens in a very tasteful manner and at Vespers a solemn procession of the Blessed Sacrament was held around the church and in the priory grounds. The Aloysian and Hibernian Societies ami the Children ot Mary wewjpie s ent in reg-alia. The procession was well lighted, and as it meandered through the priory ground the moving lights and the vaiiou» colours of the many banners m:ide a prefy and imposing- spectacle. The Rev. Father Tubman prea he.i an appropriate sermon on the Blessed Sacrament, dwelling on the m.i'iy biblical proofs of the Real Presence. The boys of the Marist Brother*' School engaged in iheir first football match on Thursday last, the game being stopped and the enjoyment marred by a rather serious accident. The opposing team belonged to the Timaru Side School, and when both teams were fairly going, a pupil of the Marist Brothers', M.irtin o' Brian, son of Mr. William O'Brian, of Adair, had the misfortune of breaking his leg. The injured boy is one of the best players in the team, and the accident brought the game to an early and unpleasant conclusion. The Marist Brothers' plucky little team enjoy up to the present an unbeaten record in the football field. The weather continues very dry. Hard frosts and cold fogs are frequent, but rain, which is much needed, keeps threatening, but does not come.