DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 11, Issue 10, 11 March 1909, Page 384

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.) March 8. The Christchurch Catholic Club is to open tho present year's session on Tuesday evening with ' Readings from Selected Authors.' His Lordship the Bishop celebrated Mass at Brackenbridge and liawardon on Sunday, and again visited the former locality in the -^afternoon. The Cathedral sanctuary boys arc to l>c formed into a guild, taking the name of the Guild of St. John Bcrchman s (patron of youth). An inaugural meeting is to take place shortly. Work in connection with the forthcoming All Seasons Carnival is progressing satisfactorily. The lady stallholders are busily accumulating a fine display of useful and ornamental wares, whilst the rehearsals, tinder the direction of Madame Cathro, are daily showing excellent results. The following number of candidates from the convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame des Missions, Christchurch, were successful in the recont teachers' examinations for 1909:— Class C, 1; Class C (partial), 2; Class D, 1; Class 1) (partial), 3. The St. Patrick's Day Celebration Executive Committee met on last Friday evening, and arranged various details in connection with tho national entertainment on . March 17. A completed programme, presented by the musical sub-committee, was deemed very satisfactory, and from general reports submitted tho success of the event appears fully assurod. The chairman and menibors of- tho Municipal Tramway Board have been added tc the list of those granting thoir patronage to the celebration. A quarterly general meeting of the Conferences of St. Vincent do Paul in the circumscription of tho Particular Council of Christchurch .was held on last Monday evening. There was a large and representative attendance, including the confraternities of" Ladies of Charity of the "Cathedral and St. Mary's, Christchurch North. Particulars of an interesting and satisfactory nature regarding the welfare of boardod out Catholic children were given by the lady official visitors of both parishes. Reports relating to the ■work of the various conferences disclosed healthy vitality and well-sustained activity.