INVERCARGILL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 33, 14 August 1902, Page 19

INVERCARGILL.

(From an occasional correspondent),

The Bluff Coronation Festival has been celebrated with success. Though only two months were given to the preparations the stalls were supplied with more than sufficient goods for a town of the population of Campbelltown. The Dominican nans are effusive in their thanks for goods receired from their old pupils over the country and from other coments. Conwidering that this is the slackest time of the year at the Purt the sales were satisfactory and not an article wan left. This i» owing to the energy of the assistants, who deserve particular commendation. The children's comedietta was a most beautiful thing ; bo that there were calls tor its repetition every evening. All who listened to it declared that it was the best youthful performance they had soon in Southland. The performance piloted by Mr Lifeter al-<o afforded much merriment and Home of the amateur actors gave promise of dramatic talent of which we shall hear again. The mo^t perfect order prevailed. One would think tho festival au affair confined altogether to 'superior' people rather thau a dimonetration open to all conitrs

in a port town. The whole show reflected the greatest oredit upon the organisers, to whom the nuns are grateful for their time and labor spent and for the genero-ity of their material contributions. The Invercargill Catholic Literary Society invited frit-nds to a literary feast on Tuesday. About 150 attended. Mr Cor mac gave an address on the Land War in Ireland, and Mr Eager gave one on the founding of the Home Rule Movement by Mr Butt. Mr Cormac's effort was truly a literary treat, brimful of information put in very choice language, and Mr Eager's was full of humorous situations, especially in his description of the election of Mr Blennerhaeset for Kerry, which produced much amusement. Each lecture lasted an hour, and voteß of thanks were proposed by Mr Gilfedder and the Rev. Father Lynch. Some melodies were sung by members of Pt. Mary's choir. The audience is anxiously inquiring aa to when the society will give another such treat. They have found out that there are evening reunions of a class much more elevating instructive and more truly amusing than the whirl and ekirl and stupidity of the ordinary ' social.'