DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 2 August 1900, Page 4

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH.

(From our own correspondent). July ,{(i. The many friends of the Very Rev. Dean Chervier, of Leeston will be sorry to learn that his health at present is far from satisAn offer has been received from a company of tilented amateurß fI«TvV T 1 - 10 , performance in aid of the Cathedral fund Urand National night has been suggested as the date of the entertainment. A full meeting of the Cathedral a..d bazaar committees was held on Sunday afternoon in the presbytery, his Lordship the Bishop presiding Signor Borzoni was in attendance ami outlined at considerable length tbe nature of the proposed carnival. From what could be gathered, the series of entertainments promise to be Signor Borzoni's supreme effort in the line of his profession ihe varions Bub-committees are now at work perfecting detailg and all arrangements will Boon be well in hand for the opening of the ♦h» S 8 £ O fh Bh ft the Rif?ht cv Bißh °P Verdon ' accompanied by the Rev Father Cleary, returned to Dunedin by the express on last Wednesday. The Right Rev. Dr. Grimes, the Very X Vicl - General, the local clergy, and a good number of prominent laymen assembled at the railway station and gave the distinguished visitors an enthusiastic send off. By the same train the Rev Father Tubman returned to Timaru.nnd the Right Rev. Monsignor Mackay went on to Wellington by the fame night's steamer The Rev lather Regnault returned to Waimate by next mornings train St. Patrick has always been venerated as one of the Church's greatest saints, and institutions bearing the name of Ireland's illus P. l^?*^ 11 haV<J alwaya been conßider ed Purely and exclusively batbeflic. lt seems now, however, we are not to be allowed any longer to eajoyan undisputed monopoly of him, osin perusing the religious •/^W 6 ™"* 8 , in Saturday's papers I observed that at 'St "?j *, ( in a Bomew hat obscure street) ' religious services' wonlfl take place on the following day, this being the first intimation W« - had of the existence of Buch a place. Is this a ru*e to entrap the unwary ' Catholic wayfarer, and an attempt to delude others into the belief that the place and services are Catholic ' A

short time ago the trick of distributing tracts to our people returning from Mass was carried on very energetically untila parawaDh