ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 39, 24 September 1903, Page 5

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) September 19. The annual football match between past and present students of St. Patrick's College is being played to-day, and a social evening is to be spent at the college. A social, under the management of the men's branch of the Sacred Heart Society, will be held at the Druids' Hall on October 21. The proceeds are to be devoted to the Te Aro parish schools. The growing demands of the extensive parish of Te Aro have necessitated the appointment of a resident priest at St. Joseph's, Buckle street. A house in the neighborhood has been secured, and the Rev. Father O'Shea will take up his residence with an assistant priest about the middle of next month. Mrs. Grace has presented to St. Joseph's Orphanage a large photograph suitably framed of her late husband, the Hon. Dr. Grace. The portrait is highly prized, as Dr. Grace was a generous 1 benefactor of the institution. The annual examination of the children of St. Joseph's Orphanage "was held this week by Mr. Bird, the Government Inspector for Industrial Schools. Most satisfactory results were obtained by the children. The following personal notes appeared in Thursday evening's ' Post ' from the London correspondent :— ' The Rev. Father Golden (Wellington), who has been granted leave of absence from his work by Archbishop Redwood, is now in Ireland, and tells me that his health has already greatly benefited by the change. He purposes sailing from the Cove of Cork in the ' Germania ' on the 24th September, reaching New York on the Ist October. After staying for lour weeks in America with his relatives and friends in the United States, Father Golden will leave San Francisco on the 29th October by the 1 Sierra ' for Auckland, where he is due on the 16th November. Writing to me from Macroom, County Cork, Father Golden says the hay and oats are suffering greatly from rain ; the crops are heavy, but dry weather is urgently needed else the losses to farmers will be serious. Blight has appeared on the potatoes, but spraying is a great check to the spread.— Mr. P. J. Garvey .(Wellington) is leaving Scotland this week on a visit to the Cork Exhibition, he may possibly spend the latter part of his vacation in France. I mentioned recently he had successfully passed his first examination in medicine at the Edinburgh University.'