ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 14 February 1907, Page 13

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) February 9. The annual retrea-t of the clergy of the archdiocese 'closed on Friday. ■ " i - The' Rev. Father Quinn, S.M., who was ordained .a few months ago, is to .proceed to Hastings* , The Rev. Father Fay, of Blenheim, is to -accompany :his brother -on a .twelve months' trip to .Europe. The Rev. Father Lynch, C.SSJR,., is leaving -New Zealand, hmchto our regret; He is to be attached to /the Redemptorist House at Warra~tah...Quite a,, number "of our 'folk are: "preparing to visit the ■ Ol,d Worlci.' 'Among them are "MiV Margin Kennedy and family , v Mrs. Sullivan and family,' and, . Mr.. c Owen v McArdle and." family. ■ - '-',"" . .His Grace" the" Archbishop left this morning for . G,taki j , whe.re he is to bless and unveil to-morrow a statue of St. Peter. An; unusually large „'n umber of Maoris will assemble for the occasion, among them being "visitors from several parts of the Colony. In addition to the laurels won by the pupils of " St." Patrick's College in the field of matriculation and Civil Sarivice examinations, a further honor has been •conferred on- Thomas Boyce, who secured a credit" pass in the University Junior Scholarship examination. He is to get a Senior Queen's Scholarship, which provides for a three years' course at a University College. The boys who came from St. Patrick's to, Victoria College lastyear did well, and those that are to follow bid iair to do even better. The parish of South Wellington has grown so rapidly as to need the services of another priest. The parishio- , ners there will be delighted to learn* that they are to have the ministrations of^ the Rev.' Father Herbert, S.M., Father Herbert was formerly stationed at St. Mary of the Angels', Boulcott- street, where he identified himself very closely with the Catholic Young,.Men's_ Literary Society. For some time latterly he was loca- . ted at Greymouth, whence, owing to ill health, he returned to Sydney for a time. Rev. Father Herbert will receive a special welcome from the -young men of the parish, whose numbers now" certainly warrant the establishment of a Catholic club^-a work .in -which the parish priest, Rev. Father Ainsworth, is keenly interested.