Southland News Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 34, 22 August 1901, Page 7

Southland News Notes.

Very Rev Father Coffey in now in Southland on hib mission collecting for St. Vincent de Paul's Orphanage, South DunediD. Sickness is very prevalent throughout Soulhland at present, influenza, diphtheria, and measles being the chtef complaints. The Rev. Father Sheehan, of Kiverton. has been far from well for some time, but it is hoped that the milder season now approaching will restore him to his usual health. Father Sheehans numerous friends — in fact the entire community — extend to him their sincerest sympathy in his illness. . My remarkßmade about a year ago that Orepuki would soon be a working man's paradise have been fully justified. Since then a couple of hundred workers from all points of the compass have settled at Orepuki. and still room remains for a hundred more, but only those of a sttady clacs need apply. A couple of mouth* ago I mentioned that a son of Mrs. Crosbie (Lumsden) fell a victim to an epidemic that then raged locally, and now I have to rt cord with regret the demise of that lady. Since her husband's death a few years ago her health had been of the very frailest, so her end was not unexpected. She was a staunch Catholic, and her example «was worthy of imitation by all. The Rev. Father Keenan conducted the burial service. — R.I. P.