DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9, 5 March 1908, Page 22

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

' The foundation stone of the new Church of the Irish Martyrs, Cromwell, will be laid on March 17, St. Patlick's Day. Important alterations, improvements and adelitions are being majde to the parochial house at Omakau. The work is proceeding There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday from ihe l a st Mass until Vespers. In the evening the usual procession took place. The Very Rev. Father Clune, C.SS.Ii., pie a cht>d an impressive, discourse at Vespers. Rev. Father Lowham, C.SS.R., concluded a. mission in Queenstowm on Sunday, and in Arrowtown on the previous Sunday.- He is this weeJr engaged in giving ;i mission in Cardrona. Very Rev. Father Clune, -C.SS.R., who reached Dunedin on Saturday, left on Mgtfday for Omakau p a rish, where he has commenced a series of missions. Rev. Father Crcagh, C.-SS.R., is still in the Cromwell parish, and IRev. Father McDermott, C.SS.R.; in Riversdale. A farewell social was tendered to Mr. O. Feil in St. Joseph's Hall on' Monday evening. Mr. Feil, , who had for the. last seventeen, years been connected with St. Joseph's choir, and had/ been* for the last few yefars conductor, is about to take up his residence in- Sydney, and at Monday evening's function the opportunity was taken of presenting him with a purse of sovereigns as a slight token cfi the appreciation in which his services have been held by the. congregation and choir.. Rev. Father O'Reilly, on making the presentation, referred in eulogistic terms to Mr. FeiFs efforts on-" behalf of the choir, to has kindly and genial manner of dealing with the members and 'to his unselfishness in devoting so many hours to the task of maintaining the choir?!" efficiency, and -expressed the hope that Mr. FedJL would be successful in his new home. Mr. Feil,- in - responding

thanked the donors "for their present, and tide choir for the assistance .they had given him during the years he had been conductor, and regretted that the pleasant relations) existing should be broken. During the evening a short musical programme was contributed byMesdames Power and Plynn, Miss Reid, and Messrs., T. Hughes and H. Poppelwell.