THE '98 CELEBRATION, WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 12, 22 July 1898, Page 28

THE '98 CELEBRATION, WELLINGTON.

A KINDLY MESSAGE TO THE '1 ABLET.

We have received from Mr. M'Grath, hon. secretary of the '98 Celebration Committee, Wellington, the following kindly communication, which we appreciate very highly :—: — ' Rev. and dear Father, — I have the pleasuro by direction of the committee for above to inform you that at a meeting held last night (July 11th) a resolution was unanimously passed expressiug the deep sense of obligation under which the committee were to you for the able manner in which the proceedings of above celebration were reported in your valuable paper. Our committee tender you their heartiest thanks, and wish you and the Tablet every possible prosperity and success, — I am, etc., J. J. M'Grath, Hon. Secretary.' We have learned with great pleasure that the Wellington celebrations were not alone a patriotic and artistic, but also a financial success. A considerable sum, we understand, lies to the committee's credit after all accounts have b en paid, and will materially benefit any good cause to which they may devote it. We congratulate the committee and the people of Wellington on the splondid success which has attended the '98 celebrat ons in the Empire City.