Southland News Notes

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 17 November 1904, Page 15

Southland News Notes

(From our own correspondent.) The Very Rev. Dean Burke has returned from Australia where he attended the Catholic Congress, and also did considerable business in connection with material required for the new church in Invercargill. The Catholics of Lumsden are contemplating the erection of a church in the township. They are to be complimented, so is tne Rev. Father Keenan, who has charge of the Riversdale parish. Through his zeal a beautiful church now adorns the Balfour township It is stated that a branch of the Irish National Foresters' Society will be formed in Invercargill soon. The settlers of Te Toa and surrounding districts are much concerned because the Government has refused to carry out the railway works. The Orepuki people complain about the shale works, and Otautau residents about divers small matters. A quiet wedding took place at Riversdale last week in which Mr. Patrick Holland, of Gore, and Miss O'Connor, of Kingston Crossing, were the contracting parties. __^_______--_.