ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 12, 22 March 1906, Page 4

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) March 17. The Rev. Father Mahony, of Nelson, has been in town during the week. He is to be located shortly in the parish of Wanganui. The Rev. Dr. Wattcrs, formerly Rector of St. Patrick's College, was recently re-elected President of the Catholic University School, Dublin. Since its appearance a few weeks ago, the pastoral on ' Socialism ' by his Grace the Archbishop has won favorable cemment from several outside the Church. Mr. Robert O'Connor and his son (Mr. A. C. O'Connor) returned to Wellington on Tuesday after a trip round the world, extending over ten months, during which time they visited Australia, the Philippines, Ch.na, Japan, United States, Canada, Ireland, and England. The return trip was made via Suez, calls being made at Colombo, Fremantle, and Sydney. Three months of the tour were agreeably spent on a shooting expedition in Ireland. The results of the musical examinations, conducted by the representative of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, London, in the Wellington Centre, are to hand, and" as usual the pupils presented by the Sisters of Mercy are well to the forefront. The following pupils were successful in their respective divisions (unless otherwise stated the passes are for pianoforte playing) :— School examination.— Elementary division : Olive Young, Gladys Fitzgerald, .Greta Bajomez, Eileen McKittrick, Rita Bunny, Myra Hodgins, Alice Hodgins, Rose Segrief, singing (St. Mary's Convent), Mabel Bourke (singing), Kate Jamieson (singing), Ethel Cooper (St. Joseph's Convent, Wellington South), Nellie Parrish, Winifred Hall (St. Joseph's Convent, Otaki). Distinction : Kathleen McGrath, Agnes Seerief, sineing (St. Mary's Convent). Lower Division— V'era Chalmers, Norm-a McGrath, Tuiwa Bunny, Kathleen Daniel, Mary Young (St. Mary's Convent), Clarice Nash (St. Joseph's Convent, Wellington South), Eileen Tompsitt, Lilian Williams (St. Joseph's Convent, Otaki)i. Higher Division— Muriel Hodgins, Violet Lamacrcft (singing), Isabella Jones (singr ing), Marion Browne (singing), Margaret Maxwell singing (St. Mary's Convent), Lucy McKeigan, Eileen' Barton, Kate Jamieson (St. Joseph's C'cnvent, Wellington South). Distinction— Annie Flanagan (St. Joseph's Convent, Wellington South). Local Centre.— lntermediate grade : Ethel Manning, Mary Harnett, Eileen Truman, Marilyn Browne, Sylvia

Williams (St. Mary's Convent), Mabel Fownes (St. Joseph's Convent, - -Wellington South). Honors— Doris Stapleton (St. Mary's Convent). Advanced grade— Kate Gray, Maude Vincent (singing), May Gudgeon, Florence M. Jones, Edith Martin (singing), Althia A. Cundy, singing (St. Mary's Convent). Honors— Rita Rabone (singing),) Sheila Clarry (singing), Alide McDonald, singing (St. Mary's Convent). Teachers' Certificate Examination (L.A.B. degree) — Matilda Evans, Elizabeth Coles (St. Mary's Convent). An analysis of the whole results shows that'in the school examination, elementary division, of 30 successes our convents claim 15 ; in the lower division, 8 out of 2-i ; in the higher division, 9 out cf 14 ;in the Local Centre intermediate grade, 7 out of 14 ; in the advanced grade, D out of 20. In the honors class of the advanced grade the whole of the successes go to the convent pupils. These are facts that speak eloquently for the high standard of musical training imparted by the Sisters who [have charge of our schools. They are successes of which we may well feel proud.