DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 16 May 1907, Page 23

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

We have received the sum of 10s from Mr. T. Hickey, Waikaia, for the St. Vincent de Paul O-rpfran'-age, South Dunedin. On Sunday— the feast of Pentecost— (Pontifical JHigh Mass will be celebrated at eleven o'clock at St. " Joseph's Cathedral. The devotion of the Forty Hours' Adoration began at Otautau on Sunday, and was brought to a close on Tuesday morning. The new church in course of erection at Thornbury, in'the Riverton parish, is expected to be completed in August. Captain Hussey, of the Hibernian Cadets, has passed his examination, his marks beimg— Practical 65, duties 64, drills and musketry 59, company training 57. The St. Joseph's Harriers held the*- run on Saturday at Anderson's Bay as guests of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Swanson and Connor were despatched with the bags, and laid the best trail obtainable, along the road to Shiel Hill and down around tihe second lagoon, coming out on Tomahawk Beach. The sandhills on the latter place tested the strength of some of the members. The trail then led to the road, which was followed home. The weekly meeting of St. Joseph's Men's Club took the form of a smoke concert, held in St. Joseph's Hall on Friday evening. Rev. Father Coney presided, and there was a very 'large attendance of members. The following contributed items during the evening : Songs, Messrs. Mile&, O'Connell, Quelch, Berneoh, Swanscn, Fleming, Heydon, and Trestcm; recitations, Messrs. Sims, Gorman, and Wilkinson ; a piano solo by Mr. Heydon, ? nd a flute solo by Mr. Deehan. Mr. F. Heley acted as accompanist. " The usual weekly meeting of the Oamaru Catholic Club (writes our travelling correspondent) was held in the schoolroom on Friday evening, the president, Mr. J. Cagney, in the chair. The programme for the evening was a debate as to whether the jury was justified in its verdict in a recent Supreme Court ease. The discussion proved a keen and animated one, and a number of vigorous and telling speeches were made. The followimb members took part in the debate : — Messrs. Gallagher, J. Gritfrtih, Corcoran, McPhee, Cartwright, P. Corcoran, and Codney (affirmative), and 'Messrs. McDonald, Cagney, jun:, Barry, Dwyer, and MulvihSll (negative). Messrs. J. Cagney, sen., amd ex-Sergeant O'Grady, who acted as judges, gave their v.erdict unanimously in favor of the affirmative sitfe.. It would probably still further i&vcrease the interest in the debates—' and would certainly enhance their value as a mental exercise— if tihe verdict were arrived at by a vote of all present, thus compelling members, each for himself, to weigh the evidence and come to a decision on the arguments adduced.