Southland News Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 39, 26 September 1901, Page 19

Southland News Notes.

(From our own correspondent.) The Gore parishioners intend holding a monster carnival next autuma in aid of the ohuroh building fond, and judging by the interest evinced the undertaking is likely to be a great success. Mr Thomas Scully, of Orepuki, has just sold his Te Tua sawmill to Messrs Cross and Fortune, and is giving np the milling business. A sad aocident befell a worthy Queenstown resident last week, Captain Robertson, of the Ben Lomond, who received rather severe injuries while making fast his vessel at the wharf. He is, lam pleased to say, getting along favorably. The Catholics of Balf our are taking active steps in the matter of ereoting a ohuroh in their looality. Some of the donations received are very handsome, and the prospects seem exceptionally bright. A friendly suit was heard at the S.M. Court, Otautau, a week or two ago, when the Wallaoe County Council proceeded against the Very Eev. Father Walsh for rates on the presbytery. The magistrate decided in favor of the rev. gentleman, but curiously enough both parties pay more in expenses of the case than the rates would come to for many years. I am in a position to say that the people of Southland are responding most liberally to the appeal of the Rev. Father Coffey on behalf of St. Vincent de Paul's Orphanage ; in fact, their generosity is most marked, and should be anything but pleasing to those bigoted legislators who threatened the Catholio orphanages last session. Many of your readers will regret to hear of the death of Mr Peter Dalrymple, of Invercargill, one of Southland's sturdy pioneers, who passed away last week at the age of 88. One thing in relation to his domestic living is unique. The house he lived in in Invercargill for 40 odd years wan brought by him all the way from Home. It was first erected in Melbourne — or where that city now is — and thence removed to Inveroargill, where it still stands.