HOKITIKA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 9, 26 February 1903, Page 19

HOKITIKA.

(From an occasional correspondent.)

February 19. t On Wednesday, February 18, -a Solemn Requiem Mass was sung here lor the repose of the soul -of the late Father Malone A large congregation filled the church thus testifying to the respect in which the memory of the deceased priest is held. The Very Rev. Dean Martin was anxious to have this Solemn Mass at the month's mind but it Was impossible to arrange it earlier The Rev' Father O'Hallohan, of Kumara, celebrated the Mass assisted by Father Herbert, of Greymouth, as deacon,' and Father McDonald, of Ahaura, as subdeacon. The Very Rev. Dean Carew, Fathers Hickson and Mahonv assisted the choir in rendering the solemn and plaintive music of the Gregorian Mass for the dead. "*uau, vi