Diocesan News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 42, 18 October 1900, Page 5

Diocesan News.

ARCHDIOCESE OP WELLINGTON.

(From our own correspondent.)

October 13. His Grace the Archbishop is expected to return from Sydney by the Westralia to-day. The Rev. Father Goggan's health has not improved, he in still confined to his room.

Rev. Father Ainsworth leaves for Otaki to-day, and will open a mission there to-morrow.

The annual excursion of the Altar Society and altar boys wai held at Day's Bay on Labor Day. Rev. Fathers O'Shea, Moloney, and Ainsworth accompanied the party, who spent a most enjoyable day.

The division list on the Private Industrial Schools Inspection and Industrial Schools Bill provides interesting reading Soveral of the members who without doubt owe their seats in the House to the Catholic vote were absent from the Chamber when the most important division was taken, while the recognised opponents of all things Catholic never left their seats during the debate on the Bill.

From advices recently received it appears that the wound which Lieutenant R. W. Collins— Fifth Contingent— son of Lieut. -Colonel Colliua, received at Zeerust was more serious than at first supposed. He waR in charge of a company of 40 men when he was hit. Hii coolness and gallantry in action are highly spoken of by his senior officers. He is still in the hospital, and though anxious to be again in the thick of it his doctor forbids his return to the front at present.

The last social for this year under the auspicea of the women's branch of the Hibernian Society was held in Whittaker's Hall on Tuesday evening. The music was provided by Fischer's string band and the catering was in the capable hands of Mr. Mawson. Songs, etc., made pleasant breaks in the evening's amusement. Miss N. Dwyer, on whom the management devolved, made a most capable secretary.

The Feast of the Holy Rosary at St. Joseph's Church and St. Mary of the Angels' was celebrated by special services. At the latter church Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament was held during the day. Solemn High Mass was sung by Rev. Father Ainsworth, with Rev. Father Moloney as deacon and Rer. Father O'Reilly as subdeacon. Haydn's Imperial Ma?a was rendered by the choir. The soloists were Mrs. Oaken. Misses Ross, Murray, Sandbrook, and McParland, Messrs. Brookes, Tabor, and Oakes. Both churches were crowded at Vespers. At St. Joseph's tho sermon was preached by Rev. Father Ainsworth, and at St. Mary of the Angels' by Rev. Father Mahony, of St. Patrick's College, who preached an eloquent discourse on the Blessed Eucharist.

That St. Mary's Convent is the premier school of music in this city is again exemplified in the published results of the examination in practice conducted on behalf of the Royal Academy of Music by Mr. Stewart Macpherson. Of the 33 successful local candidates no less than 39 are pupils of the Sisters, who presented 40 candidates. The following were successful in their respective sections :—: — Local centre examination : Senior grade. — Honors section — Singing : Helen Flanagan, Bessie Flynn, Lily White, Teresa Rowe ; piano: Rose Bennett, Clare Campion. Pass section — Singing: Marie Blake, Jessie Davidson, Effie Drummond ; pianoforte : Winnie Connoll. Dora Maudsley, Eleanor Myers, Daisy Reilly, Madeline Mitchell.

Junior grade. — Pass section — Pianoforte: Matilda Evans, Muriel Waldegrave.

Local schools examination : Higher divisions. — Distinction — Singing : Constance McCloskey, Lena Moreshead, Linda Koch, Margaret Kenny. Pass section — pianoforte : Elizabeth Coles, Jennie Gallagher, Marion Goulter, Kate Palmer. Singing : Rose Bennett, Pippin Balltn, Annie Gallagher, Daisy Reilly, Elizabeth Minogue. Lower division. — Distinction — Pianoforte, Maud Parker. Pass section — Pianoforte : Odile Ritleng, Eveline Collins, Elsie Watson, Olive Blake, Nora Harnett, Kathleen Ward. Elementary division. — Distinction — Pianoforte, Doris Heywood. Paso section — Piano« forte : Greta King, Duloie Fleet, Catherine Patten.