Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1909, Page 21

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) - , July 6. The Catholic school boys, by their victory over the Main School on Saturday afternoon, are now the leaders in the schools football competition. The feast of St. John the Baptist, the patronal feast of our esteemed parish priest, the Rev. Father Tubman,

was celebrated on Wednesday last with more than usual eclat. During the day the school children took an opportunity to give him their felicitations, and in the evening the parishioners tendered him a social in the girls' school. The large class rooms were crowded, among the guests 6eing the Rev. Fathers Kerley and Smith, of Timaru, and Rev. Father Le Floch (Temuka). The three leading ladies' guilds in the parish (Altar Society, Children of Mary, and St. Anne's Guild) presented the Rev. Father with a handsome set of vestments worked in the Sacred Heart Convent. Mr. M. J. Doyle read the address accompanying the gift, and referred to the ever increasing indebtedness of the parishioners to their pastor^ and to the flourishing state of all the Catholic societies of the district. Mr. O'Kane, in a few well chosen words, asked the guest of the evening to accept a useful piece of plate from the Hibernian Society. The Rev. Father, whose rising was the signal for considerable applause, expressed his gratitude and thanks for the acceptable presents and the kind thoughts that accompanied them, and concluded by paying a graceful tribute to his assistant priests. A successful musical programme, arranged and accompanied by Miss Eileen Dennehy, agreeably filled up the evening. Among those who contributed were Mrs. J. G. Yenning, Miss McGrath, and Messrs. Jordan, Coombs, and O'Donohue. Supper served by a willing host of young ladies brought the proceedings to •, a close.