OAMARU.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 33, 22 December 1898, Page 15

OAMARU.

The North Otago Times (referring to the Catholic schools in that town) says :— These schools broke up on Thursday without any formal ceremony. This year a prize list was dispensed with at the boys' school, the heavy calls upon the resources of parents in other directions making it necessary to relieve them from this. There was therefore no ceremony, the school being simply dismissed for the customary holidays. At the primary Convent School the certificates of merit awarded by the inspector at the examination in September were distributed by the Very Rev Dean Maokay. It might be mentioned, however, that this school passed a most successful examination, only two pupils having failed to pass The exhibition of work in connection with the Convent Schools has hitherto afforded considerable gratification to a number of the public, but owing to preparations being in active progress for the bazaar to be held in a few months 1 time in aid of the Basilica, it was deemed advisable to put it off till a later period. But the pupils have either finished or have in progress a quantity of exceptionally fine work. Much of it will be exhibited later on, and a good deal of it disposed of at the bazaar. We hope to ba able to say something about these on a future occasion. ° The following is the prize list and list of work : — English ■ Miss Nellie Corcoran, Intermediate Class B ; Miss Elaie Desmond, Junior School. Mathematics : Miss Hannah Sweeney, Intermediate Class B ; Miss Fanny Desmond, Junior School ; Miss Selina Eason French : Miss Mary Drew, Senior School ; Miss Elsie D^mond' Junior School. Freehand Drawing : Miss Nellie Corcoran, Intermediate Class B ; hon. mention, Misses Hannah Sweeney and N O Bnen. Writing : Miss Nellie Corcoran, Intermediate Class B • Miss Maude Gatfield, Junior School. Geography : Miss Hannah Sweeney, Intermediate Class B ; Miss Maude Gatfield, Junior School Art Needlework : Miss Mary Drew, Miss May Schluter, and Mibs Elsie Desmond ; hon. mention, Misses Hannah Sweeney, N. O'Brien and Nellie Corcoran. Wood Carving : Miss Mary Drew • hon mention, Misses Wright, Ford, Ring, and M'Kay. General Improvement : Miss May Gilligan, Junior School. Good Conduct • Miss Nora O'Brien. Music : Miss Nora O'Brien. Trinity College Examination. — Practical Music • Intermediate division honours, Miss Minnie Paton ; primary division honours, Miss Millie Potter. The following- certificates were also awarded last January : Miss May Du-^an. intermeJMte divibion pass ; Miss Maude Ralfe, primary division pa^s. KINDERGARTEN. — Arithmetic and Drawing: Miss Nellie Curran. Writing : May Malloy. Spelling • Cissy llioney. ilexding and Spelling : Lee O'Neil. Drawing :' Oswald Wise. Spelling • Christopher Spiers. * Object Lessons.— Mat- weaving : Jimmy Spier-. Spnllin^ and paper-folding: John FitzgeraM. l)-awin^: Euo-ene Fitz -vrald Mat-weaving: Dan Kelly. Riding, drawing, ami basket- weuvin.. ' Edward Rooney. The nuns .ire in<K bte Ito tnc Hon. Ge-)i-<>-e Jon-s Very Rev. Dean Mackay, and the Rev. Father HowaiM for handsome prizes awarded for Eti^LLsh, j, r ->>d couiuut, and mathematics respectively. LIST OF WOliK. In the exhibition of work done duri lg the ycir the Misses Drew, Schluter, Sweeney, O'Brien, Corcoran, Desmoad, Gar-field, Eason, Gilligan, and Telfer (2) showed some excellent specimens in various branches of art. Some work that had been done for the forthcoming bazaar by the Misses Wright (2), Reid O'Connor, Cooney, Toupey, and Joyce, was ako on view, and excited ""eneral admiration. Specimens of wood carving were shown by th»rMisses Drew, Forde, Ring, Wright, and Mackiy. Paintings, of which there was a large and varied exhibition, were shown by the Misses Roberts, Bee, M Naught, Cagney, Corcoran, Buick, O'Counor. Rowlands, Tomkins, Forde, Gallagher, and Grave.