TIMARU

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 26 April 1906, Page 19

TIMARU

(From our own correspondent.) April 23. • Miss Fitzgerald recently received word from the examiner of the Royal College of Music that she- has passed the fnal section of the 1,."A.8. degree. She is an ex-pupil of, and one time teacher at, the Convent sen 00 1 > A photosriph appeared in th's month's ' Triad ' of Miss Maesjne Dennehv, who passed the iunicr pianoforte examination of Trinity Crlloge at six years of ae-e and the intermediate cf ihe s^rre inslituii-n last year at eight yeans of age. She is a pupil of her sister Miss Eileen Demerit. Two most successful socials were held in the Assembly Rooms .Iftsrb week, in aid' -of different stalls in the bazaar which will -be held towards the end of the year to assist the new church fund. 'Ihe entertainment on ?o? ™ V e ™" in « was toy the Misses Mahoney (2), Mara (2), and Kis-el ; ?nd ihat o n Thursday' by Mrs. Dennehy and ,Miss Rope Bvrne. The ladies am to be congratulated on the success which p trended their zealous labors, the result being arout £33

In the practical examinations held here on the 71 1 inst. Wy Mr. T. F. Dunhill, in connection wiih the Associated 'Boalrd of the Royal College of Music, some of our Catholic teachers obtained excellent results, about half of their pupils being from the Sacred Heart Convent. The chief results are as folJow :— Pianoforte— Advanced, Gwendoline Vavasour and Mina Ward ; intermediate, P. King ; his/her division, Blanche Vavaaour and Annie "Ward (Miss E. McGuinness). Pianoforte— Lcwer division, Miriam Homfray (Miss Fitzgerald). Pianoforte—Elementary, Myrtle I lays (Miss Sugrue). On Sunday mornimg Jan. ordinary church paradd (was held, starting from the Drili Shed at 10.30 o'clock, and marching 'down Stafford street and up Church streets as far as its junction with Sophia street. There the battalions separated for thfir various places of worship. The Caiholic portion, sorrve thirty strong, under Sergeant Collins, attended the 11 o'clock Mass. By his tenacity and untirinc; constancy, Councillor Harncy hns at lcnsjih got the Borough Council to put £100 on the estimates- for t>hei coming financial year, to Improve the wilderness 1 familiarly known as the ' Ganl Paddock.' As it is largely vs r d hv the parochial school^ovs as an extra rl-v-rotmd tv>e con^emnlafed changes to its present unsightly condition will be ? great boon to thrm.