INVERCARGILL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 38, 20 September 1900, Page 18

INVERC A RGIL L.

(From our own correspondent.)

The collection for the new church originated a month or six weeks ago is going on apace. The Very Rev. Dean Burke headed the list with a contribution of £200. Mr. Maher, of Kew, always to the front in religious and charitable matters, followed with £»',(). Mr. Enright put his name down for £.50, Mrs. Tympany for 30 guineas, Mrs. Jackson for £30, and so on. The clergy are making a house to house canvass in town and country, and are meeting. they say, with a success exceeding their anticipations. The Very Rev. Dean Burke announced on Sunday, that over and above the present levy, he would expect the ladies of the pariah to raise £800 or £1000 during the next, nine months by some organised effort on their part. With a view of making a beginning a meeting of ladies assembled at St. Joseph's on Monday evening, and resolved to commence preparations at once for a week's demonstration in March next. The dramatic department of the Literary Society is preparing a musical and dramatic entertainment in aid of the gymnasium, for Wednesday next, in the Theatre Royal. The gymnasium has been of inestimable benefit to our schoolboys and to our young men. Owing to it both classes have headed the list in athletic exercises in Southland this year. Besides, there is the moral effect of bringing the young men together, evening after evening, and uniting them in a friendly and sociable body with common ideas and aspirations, instead of allowing them to wander about, as they previously did, and making the acquaintance of undesirable companions. This is an excellent consummation, ana goes a far way in solving the difficulty of coping with the young-man leakage. The farmers of Southland are in high jubilee by reason of the advance of agricultural preparations and the prospects that implies. Positively, so fine and suitable a spring time has not been seen in this province.