ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, 8 January 1903, Page 4

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

(From our own correspondent.) January 3. The first week of the mission in the Te Aro parish will be (riven to the children. A mission will be given by the Redemptorist Fathers in Palmerston North, beginning on the 18th inst. The Very Rev. Father O'Farrell, C.SS.R., leaves on Monday morning for Masterton, where he will preach the Retreat to the. Sisters. Miss P. O.Leary. formerly of Blenheim, was married to Mr W Darrooh, of Wellington, on New Year's Day at St. Joseph's Churoh Rev. Father Gralerne performed the ceremony. The Very Rev. Dean Hoyne, of Hobart, is spending a short holiday in Wellington. The rev. gentleman, who is in charge of the Mount Magdala Asylum, Hobart, is a guest at the Te Aro presbytery. The children's picnic, which was postponed from New Year's Day on account of the rain, is being held to-day at Belle Vue Gardens under most favorable circumstance*. The children assembled at St. Mary of the Angels' and, headed by Jupp's brass band marched in procession to the Te Aro station where, accompanied by the clergy and the members of the Christian Doctrine Society they embarked on a special train. At the Thorndon station the children of that part of the city joined them. Arrived at the grounds an extensive programme of sportß ie being proceeded with nnder the supervision of the Marist Brothers' Old Boys' Association.