Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 20 April 1905, Page 4

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) April 17. A very successful little gathering took place in the girls' school recently, when the ladies and gentlemen of the St. Patrick picnic committee met at the invi/ta-

tion of the Rqv. Father Tubman to spend a social evetaing. Several songs were rendered, and Mr. Fitzgerald gave an interesting exhibition of Irish step dancing. Fat/heri Tubman took advantage of an interval to' present the secretary of the sports, Mr. N. -Mangos, with a gold sovereign case, as a memento of the success of t>he gatlheii/ng, to which his razors largely contributed. On Thursday morning a Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated, by tihe Rev. Father Tubman for the repose of the soil of his mother ; who died in the Old Couintry a few months aco. The church was well filled, the Large n\ini.bcirs uestifying to the respect in which our parish priest is held." The Very Rev. Dean Bowers (Gdnaldine) was deacon. Re/. Father Renault fWaimate) snbdeaoon, and Rev. Fatherl Le Floch master of ceremonies. There wr^e also recent Rev. Fathers Creed (Ashburtop), O'Connor (Waimate), Kerley and Peoples (Temuka), ard the local clergy. The usual Gregorian Requiem music was sung by a strong ohoir led by Rev. Father Finnerty. Miss McGuinness presided at tjie orgap.