NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 12, 22 July 1898, Page 18

NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL.

Tin: St. P.iti-iuk's College Old Boys' Association will hold a social in St. Thomas's Hall, Wellington, on the 213 rd of August. We have received for the Rev. Father Kreymborg'a mission parcels of used stamps from Miss Norah Davauney, Wrey's Bush ; from ' Maori, 1 Queenstown ; Miss Norah Bell, Cape Foulwind ; from Misd K. A. McDonald, Blacks (who also forwarded seven unu«ed stamps) ; from Miss Maggie Segrief, Wellington ; and L. F. P., North Canterbury. We have just received a telegram from Pdlrnerston North conveying the intelligence that a very successful mission has been given at Danevirke by Rev. Father Patterson. The good people of the town and district responded splendidly to it. The mission commenced on Monday last, and ends on Friday. The weather waa col Jl and wet during the mission, nevertheless the people braved the hicleiru-n y of the elements and turned up in great numbers at all the (-erv.ce.?. We learn from our Christchurch correspondent that on Sunday last the Vicar-General celebrated High Mass at the Pro-Cathedral iiiid tlie Rev. Father llafferty preached on the goapel of the day. At Vespers the Vicar-Oeneral delivered an eloquent discourse, dealing principally with the nature and objects of religious processions. There was a large congregation present, and tbe sermon was followed by a solemn procession in honour of the Blessed Virgin around the interior of the church. The Children of Mary and other soo eties toi>k part in the august rite. At the services the faithful were requested to become subscribers to the N.Z. TAB^BiT, and at Vespers the Vicar-General, prior to his discourse, referred at gome length to the great good this journal has done for the cause of

Catholicity and of Catholic education in this Colony. It was for this purpose, he said, that the Tablet was established over twenty years ago by the late venerated Bishop Moran, and, therefore, it was evidently the duty of those among 1 the faithful who can to support the paper.