GREYMOUTH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9, 1 March 1906, Page 13

GREYMOUTH

(From our own correspondent.)

February 23

Quite a gloom was cast over the town last week when the sad news reached here that Master Wilfrid Ilannan, son of Mr. M. Hannan, solicitor, had been drowned in Nelson. In company with several other boys he went to bathe in the Matai River, and being unable to swim he got out of his depth and sank. He was not missed for a few minutes, and when the boys searched and brought him out efforts at resuscitation were made for a long time but without success. The deceased had only arrived in Nelson a few days pre\iously with Mrs. Hannan, and was proceeding to Wellington to continue his studies at St. Patrick's College. The body was brought on to Greymouth, and the funeral took place last Friday and was very largely attended, the local cadet corps, of which deceased was an officer, attending in full muster. The services at both church and grave were conducted by the Rev. Father Taylor. Heartfelt sympathy is felt by all classes of the community for the parents in the sad bereavement that has befallen them.— R.l. P. A ladies' cricket match was played on the Recreation Ground last Saturday between the St. Mary's and Mawhera Clubs. St. Mary's team put up the respectable total of 90 runs, while the Mawheras could only reply vith 36, the former thus winning by 54 runs. The St. Patrick's church tower is,\now practically completed,, andftjiforms the principal landmark »f Greymouth. It will be opened byhis Lordship Bishop Grimes on Sunday, March 18. The Hibernian sports committee are determined to leave no stone unturned in making their sports meeting on March 17 the best ol its kind ever held on the Coast The Greymouth branch of the Hibernian Society are offering yearly prizes to the children of the Greymouth Catholic schools for Irish history. The ordinary weekly meeting of the St. Coluraba Club was held last Monday evening. Three new • members were elected and two proposed. The programme for the evening was .a lecture on ' Home Rule ' by Mr. •J . McNamara. The lecturer spoke for over an hour, qmd was listened to with great attention and frequently applauded. Mr. L. J. Brooks, who left last Saturday for Gisborne to assume the management of a business there, was the recipient of several presentations prior to his departure from Greymouth. On Friday evening some personal friends presented him with a handsome Gladstone bag. Several of those present spoke in eulogistic terms of Mr. Brooks' sterling qualities, and mention was made bf his connection with the St. Columba Club, of which he had been a very enthusiastic and useful member/ .