(From Our West Coast Correspondent.)

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 21, 29 September 1898, Page 19

(From Our West Coast Correspondent.)

September 16. Mr. F. C. Dupre, one of the oldest and most popular citizens of G-reymouth, leaves that town shortly to take up his residence in the North Island. Mr. Dupre and family have always been intimately associated with Catholic affairs in Greymouth for the last 30 years. In municipal affairs Mr. Dupre at one time took an active part and had the honour of being elected to the mayoral chair. The Westland Sawmill, destroyed some time ago by fire, is again in full swing. The mill employs sixteen hands. The Rev. Father Servajean is enjoying a well-earned holiday on the Coast. The rev. gentleman was warmly received by his old friends, as no more popular and esteemed priest ever resided in the neighbourhood. Public subscription lists are being taken round Westport for the purpose of raising funds to erect a Gladstone Memorial Ward in the Westport Hospital. The public are responding liberally, and there is reason to hope that the project will be successfully carried out. (For beginning of Diocesan Neics see page 28.)