CHRISTCHURCH. (By telegraph, from our own correspondent )

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

CHRISTCHURCH. (By telegraph, from our own correspondent )

On Monday afternoon last the annual distribution of prize* to the children attending the Addington school took place in the local schoolroom. There was a large g- A tne"injr of parents and friends oi" the children present, and the Vicar-General, who was attended by the Rev. Fa- her Servaj. 'an, presented the prn.ns l\iono the distribution, an attractive programme of recitations and mubical selections was extremely well rendered by the children, who were arranged on s^ats on a dais at one end ot the .schoolroom. When the programme was over the Vicar General adrtret-std a tew wordb to the children, and ended by wishing them the compliments of the season. The Rev. Mother Theophane, and Sister Augustine who have charge of the school, and the Rev. Mother l\io\in< ial, the Rev Mother Philomene, and Sister Felix, who drove horn the convent in Barbadoe^ street in order to assist at the presentation, were albo present.