Wanganui

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

Wanganui

, (From our own correspondent.), - - • ' 7. Mr. W. Foley, one of the niembers of the St. Mary'X Catholic Cliib, was married to Miss Annie Murphy, of Napier, at St. , Marx's Church, by Very Rev. ' Dean Grogan, on- February 6. Mr. Foley was presented with a handsome teapot-and cruet stand by liis fellow-employees . at the ' Herald ' office. The happy couple left en route for Palmerston North on thiei-r honeymoon. The members of the club 'wish Mr. and Mrs. Foley all happiness and prosperity in their future career./^ " - A meetiifg of the parishioners was held on Sunday evening after Vespers to consider the best way of celebrating St. Patrick's Day, "Very Rev. Dean Grogan presided. It was decided that on the' evening of Monday, March 18, an entertainment be held, the first part to consist of musical items, and the second of a comedy to be given, by the members of the dramatic branch of St.. Mary's Catholic Club. All present- formed themselves into a committee, with Rev. Father Mahony as hon. -secretary, to . carry out" the* necessary arrangements.' It was also arranged that a picnic be given to " the children on Thursday ,,- March 21. Last Sunday mo'ming -the body of the late Mr. Charles Wixcey, 'who lost - his life by' drowning the previous Sunday, was; found- on the beach at •Castlecliff by Constable > Snow-. The funeral of the deceased took place-on Monday morning at 10 - o'clock, and was attended -by a .very large number. The procession was headed by the Marist_ Brothers and the senior school boys: .Then- came the .members - of the' St. Mary's Catholic Club (numiberfngrabouir-120), led by Messrs. Mcßrearty and . Markham..; -Among the other bodies represented at the funeral' were the Trinity Young Men's Improvement Club, and Wanganui Orchestral Society .-rR.I.P. .' ' <•