TIMARU.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 5, 31 January 1901, Page 15

TIMARU.

(From our own correspondent.) January 22. The Rev. Father Herbert, of St. Patrick's College, is staying at present at the Priory. The boys' school will re-open on next Monday, the 28th inst. The Convent High School re-opens on February 12. The news that the Imperial and Indian troops are to honor Timaru by breaking the journey here for an hour or so has caused some excitement in local military circles. At a meeting of the Waimate Cemetery Board on Thursday last a motion was passed expressing regret at the loss of the late Mr Nicholas Wall, who represented the Catholic body on the Board during the past 1"> years, and expressing the Board's appreciation of his services. The meeting directed that a letter of condolence be forwarded to Mrs. Wall, also that the Rev. Father Regnault be requested to nominate a successor. The Rev. Father Tubman has received from the collectors towards the Marist Brothers' Fund the sum of £22, which has been forwarded to Brother Mark, Wellington, by the hon. sec, Mr. M. F. Dennehy. Of the amount named the Hibernian Society subscribed £8 13b, the parishioners £9 18s 6d, and St. Andrews subscribes £1 5b 6d. The collectors — Mrs. Mull ally and Messrs. J. Dunne and P. Kane, who are to be complimented on the result of their labors — state that they had no difficulty in obtaining subscriptions, the people being only glad of the opportunity to do so. The Hibernian Society augmented the subscriptions of its members by a donation from the funds. [This letter arrived too late for insertion in our last issue]

January 28. The Rev. Father Mclnerncy, S.J., occupied the pulpit on Sunday at the 1 1 o'clock Mass, and preached an eloquent sermon on the feast of the day, the Holy Family. At Vespers the Rev. Father referred to the death of tho Lite Quteu Victoria, and pointed out the marvellous t-pread of Christian taith and Catholic truth during her reign. A graphic allusion was made to Carlyle's mocking reference to the Cath.,lie, Faith (or an he called it ' Popery ') 60 years ago. Carlyle compared Popery to the ebbing tide which in half a century would ebb never to return. Carlyle had gone with the o'-iVii'njr fi'rin tViP Mlf pi->nl-iiry hi.l pa«sr.H ;>w,ay miH C.4 years of Queen Victoria's reign, during all these yearn the Catholic "Church far f™*n pbb 1 "^;: h"° f^wed in liVo t mi^Vify tirip from T,anrt* End to Berwick on Tweed, and from end to end of the British Empire. After a long night of three and' a half centuries of persecution, when the fruits of Catholic Emancipation became evident to, the outer world, the Catholic Faith came forth as it were from the Catacombs and spread throughout the British Isles. The emancipated subjects of Queen Victoria became the apostles of the American Continent from the Atlantic to Pacific, and of the Antipodes. A rapid survey of tho progress of the Church in Australia was made, also of the progress of physical science, literature, and arts, and the rev. preacher conclude! by baying that Catholics yielded to none in their loyalty to the throne, as the latest war of the Queen's reij>n had proved to the world. The church was crowded morning ard evening. The Dead March in 'Saul' waa played at the conclusion of the Mass. Father Mclnerney is a brother to Dr. Mcloerney, a captain of the first Victorian Contingent. Captain Mclnerney waa shot through the body in an engagement with the Boers, but recovered and is now Military Chief Justice in Pretoria. The proclamation of Edward VII. as King of the British Empire took place at 12.30 to-day (Monday) before a vast concourse of people, including all the local dignitaries, the clergymen of the various churches, etc., and a two hours' holiday was kept in tha town.