ARCHDIOCESE OP WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 12 June 1902, Page 5

ARCHDIOCESE OP WELLINGTON.

(From our own Jcorrespondent.)

June 7. The Vev. Archdeacon Devoy, Provincial, returned to Wellington on Friday. Special services will be held at the three churches to-morrow to commemorate the declaration of peace. Rev. Father Costello arrived from Auckland en Saturday last. He is at present the guest of his Grace Archbishop Redwood. The feast of Corpus Christi was celebrated in a special manner at the Church of the Sacred Heart on Sunday last. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament was held during the day, and the choir was ably assisted by a full orchestra at Mass and at Vespers. Very deep sympathy is expressed on all sides for the Rev. Father Ainsworth in the great loss he has sustained through the death of his mother.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament was held at St. Mary of the Angels' on Sunday last. Rev Father Herbert sang the 11 o clock Mass. A large number attended for Adoration during the day. A Sol mn Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St Joseph's Lburch on Tuesday next for those who fell in the late war. Mass will alno l-e celebrated at the Church of the Sacred Heart for the Kime obj ct it an early date. At St. Jose, h'sj Church on Thursday a very qniet wedding was celebrated by the Uev. lather O'Shea. The contracting parties were Mr J. V. Luwe-s of the Telogiaph Department, Christcbutcb, and Mips E Cullin ,of Wellington. A Nuptial Mass was celebrated at, nine odo^k. The l,a.j py couple kft for their future home in Cnrihtcburch the same evening The announcement of the joyful row chat peace had been proclaimed in South Africa was received in Wellington with marked enthusiasm The first indication of the fact was the booming of guns, which was followed by the clunking of all the bells in the city and the hoisting of fla^s and bunting. In n, very short time a den*>e throng of people assembled in front of the General Post Office, where the Mayor announced that the proclamation of peace between the British and the Boers had come at last. The ActingPremier, Sir Joseph Ward, was soon on the scene, and confirmed the statement made by the Mayor, and also read an urgent message sent by Lord Kitchener to his Excellency the Governor. The people at this stage were intensely enthusiastic, and cheers were given over and over again for those men who played a prominent part in the history of the campaign.