ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, 20 September 1906, Page 13

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) September 15. The Very, Rev. Dean McKennav- o f Mastertbn, and the Rev. Father Goggan, of Napier, have been x>n a visit ; of inspection to the orphanage, at Stoke. The annual social in aid of the ' schools of Te Aro parish was held in the - Town Hall on Wednesday evening. There was a fairly large attendance. The first part of the proceedings was devoted to musical items, songs being rendered, by Misses V. Lamacroft E. Martin, A.T.C.L., and Amy Hyde, and Messrs. Reade and Carr. A cornet solo was given by J Parker. Miss M. Sullivan played the accompaniments'. News was received by cable during the week 'of the death in Sydney of Mr. A. H. Redwood. Deceased while on ;a brief visit to Sydney was taken suddenly ill, and an . operation was found necessary Unfortunately it was not- successful. Mr. Redwood was about forty years of age, and* leaves a widow and four children. He was a native of Blenheim and his father, Mr. Cfharles Redwood, is at present a resident of Toowoomba, Queensland- Mrs. Maurice McGrath, of this city, is a sister, and his Orace Archbishop Redwood an uncle of deceased. — R.I.P The results of the Trinity College music examinations form very interesting, reading! for Catholics " as" far as the Wellington centre is concerned, - The pupils from St. Mary's Convent are still to the very forefront in carrying off any honors that are to be had. Four candidates were presented for examination hi the higher division of singing, and all gained •honors. Th^' successful pupdls are .-—Rita RaJbone A.T.C.L., 89 ; Alice Maodonald, A.T.C.L., 88 : Edith Martin, A.T.C.L., 85; Althea Cundy, A.T.C.I/., 81. The first of these, Miss Rita Rabone, is only seventeen years of age, , and is probably "the youngest can-, didate in New Zealand to secure the Associate degree. The only honors in senior pianoforte playing m Wellington were Sylvia Williams, 88, and Mary Harnett, 86. Miss Williams gained the Dresden medal for highest marks in the senior division. These results are extremely gratifying. The debt which the musical public of this city owes to the Sisters of Mercy is one that is ever increasing from year to year. J A reception ceremony "was conducted by his Grace the Archbishop at St. Joseph's, Buckle street, on Friday morning, when three young ladies were received into the Order of Our Lady of Compassion. - The church was beautifully decorated by the Misses Gibbes, the Misses Hackett, and Miss B. MacManaway The sacred edifice , was crowded. His Grace was assisted by Very Rev. Dean McKenna, Very Rev Father MacNamara, and Rev. Fathers Holley, McDernwrt*. Vsmnag-. Herring, and Walsh. The candidates were Miss Josephine MacManaway, of Wellington (in religion Sister Mary Francis of Assisi), Miss Mary Cregan, of Sydney (Sister Mary Xavier), and Miss' Acnes Boland of Darfield (Sister Mary Claudia). His Grace delivered a short address in which he pointed out the duties of all who desired to enter the Order of Compassion, and particularly stated that their work in life was the amelioration of the woes of suffering; humanity. Their duties would often be of the most humble, even menial, character, and it was not for them to imagine that such duties were carried out by them as philanthropists. Rather they should consider that they were doing the work of their Master It was a sacrifice demanded by the Saviour of mankind. A special choir rendered the music appropriate to the occasion, s *