Westport

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 2 April 1908, Page 13

Westport

(From our own. correspondent.) • - - March 23. A large audience attended the Irish national concert on St. Patrick's night. The audience showed their appreciation of the programme By recalling nearly every performer. Although rain threatened in the morning, about 2000 people attended the Seddon memorial , picnic, at Cape Foulwind on St. Patrick's Day. the net proceeds ,of \he picnic, which was promoted by a committee .repre- • sen ting the townspeople ~and the Hibernian Society, amounted to £70. On Thursday evening last the Rev. D. J. O'Sullivan, of the Society of African Missions,- delivered a lecture in the, Victoria Theatre, on his personal experience and knowledge of -Egypt. A number of views of celebrated places in Egypt and Ireland made the lecture- highly toterestimg and instructive. The -Rev. father lectures at ■Deniniston to-night.- . ,