WAIMATE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 17, 27 April 1899, Page 6

WAIMATE.

(From our own correspondent.) The members of the choir of St. Patrick's Church met on Wednesday evening of last week at the residence of Mr. G. Goldstone, to | show their appreciation of the many good qualities of Mr. G. Collins, their late organist, who is leaving the district. The Rev. Father Regnault, in a eulogistic speech, referred to the self-sacrificing spirit shown by Mr. Collins in giving his services as organist. Mr. C. Goldstone, on behalf of the choir, presented Mr. Collins with a travelling rug and flask. Several songs and choruses were given by the members of the choir and visitors. On Thursday the first annual meeting of the St. Patrick's Altar Society was held at the presbytery, a large number of ladies being present. The chair was taken by Rev. Father O'Connell, president, who, in the coarse of his remarks, reviewed the work of the society, and congratulated the members on the success of their first year's labours. During the year the sum of £35, the result of members' subscriptions, was spent on church decorations and vestments, leaving a balance in hand. In the course of his sermon yesterday, the Rev. Father Regnault referred to the very able articles lately published in the N.Z. Tablet, marking out two as specially helpful at the present period — ' Juvenile Depravity ' and ' The Curfew and its Lessons.' The Rev. Father spoke of his appreciation of the merits of these and other articles.