DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9, 1 March 1900, Page 19

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH.

(From our own correspondent )

February 26. During Lent short instructions are to be given from the ProCathedral pulpit on each Wednesday evening.

The Very Rev. Dean Foley preached on Sunday night, and announced that it was his Lordship the Bishop's intention to deliver a course of lectures on the Sunday evenings during Lent

A concert and entertainment to celebrate St. Patrick's Day is being arranged by the local branch of the H.A.C.B. Society, the proceeds of which are to benefit the schools.

Three pupils of the Sisters of Our Lady of Missions successfully pas-ed the recent Civil Service examination, their names being Agnes Ryan, Viola Montague, and Elizabeth McGee, and were educated at the Convent High School, Barbadoes street.

As a result of the collection in aid of the Cathedral Building Fund made at Loburn during the recent mission held there by the Right, Rev. Dr. Grimes, the sum of £5."> 10s was handed in. Eleven candidates received the Sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday, the 18th inht.

At a patriotic meeting held at the Hanmer Springs, attended by residents and visitors, the Rev. Father Treacey was one of the speakers, and was, according to a local paper, cheered for his ekquent and passionate defence of the Irish from the charge of failure to respond to the Empire's call in the present crisis. He showed how valiantly the Irish regiments had fought, and how England's successes on the battlefield had been purchased with the life-blood of Ireland's bett sons

After being six years in the parish of Hawarden the Rev. Father Trcacey, a short time ago, owing to ill health, resigned charge of that district. His late parishioners learning he was passing through to Christchurch, after a visit to the Hanmer

Springs for health purposes, met at the residence of Mr. Coakley, Lower Waiau, on Thursday last, and presented their former pastor with an address and purse of sovereigns. General regret was expressed at the cause of his severance from them, with hopes that complete rest and a long voyage would assist in a restoration to health. Father Treacey will leave in a few days for the North Island en n>»tf for England.