Diocesan News

New Zealand Tablet, 10 February 1910, Page 223

Diocesan News

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON (From our own correspondent.) February 5. The appointment of Mr. Morgan D. Flaherty as manager of St. Mary’s Industrial School, Nelson, is gazetted: The many friends of Mr. F. H. Chamberlain, late of Christchurch, will be pleased to hear that he has been appointed managing engineer for the Westport-Stockton Coal Company. f _ At the opening of the new school at Kilbirnie on Monday, January 31, forty children attended, which is very gratifying to the Sisters of Mercy, who have charge of it.

There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph’s Church, Buckle street, on Sunday from the last Mass until Vespers, after which the usual procession took place. ■ The quarterly conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society will be* held on Sunday afternoon, February 13, in St. Patrick’s Hall, Boulcott street. The Catholic residents of Brooklyn are determined in their efforts to build a church in their district very soon. A committee has been formed, and has made arrangements regarding the house-to-house collection, which has now been undertaken. The parishioners are responding very liberally. The members of the St. Vincent Parish Guild held their usual meeting at St, Patrick’s Hall, Boulcott street, on Friday evening, when there were about thirty boys present, besides several members of the St. Mary’s Conference of St. Vincent de Paul Society. The marriage of Miss Johnston, daughter of Mr. Sydney Johnston, of Orua Wharo, and Mr. Daniel Henry Riddiford, son of Mr. Henry Joshua Riddiford, took place on Tuesday, February 1, at St. Mary’s Church, Takapau. The Rev. Father Johnston officiated. The monthly meeting of the women’s branch of the Sacred Heart Association (Te Aro parish) was held in St. Joseph’s Church, Buckle street, on Friday evening, February 4, when there were about 350 present. Fourteen new members were admitted. The Rev. Father Venning, S.M. (spiritual director) gave an instructive discourse. He exhorted the members to encourage Catholic readings in their homes. An enjoyable progressive euchre party was held at St. Anne’s Club rooms, Newtown, on Wednesday evening, February 7, about sixty people taking part. The prizes were won by Miss Kate O’Sullivan and Mr. Mclnerney. The proceeds .will be devoted towards the fund for the entertainment of the H.A.C.B. Society delegates to the triennial movable meeting. The committee for the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day this year is to be composed of six representatives from each of the following bodies: —St. Patrick’s, St. Aloysios’, and St. Peter and Paul’s branches of the Hibernian Society, and the Wellington Catholic Club. The intention of the committee is to hold a picnic at the Lower Hutt and a grand Irish national concert on March 17, and a sports meeting on Saturday afternoon, March 19. The report of the proceedings of the fifth triennial meeting of the inter-state representatives of the Hibernian Society, held at Hobart, is just to hand. Bro. P. J. Nerheny, J.P., D.P., Auckland, represented the New Zealand district. The report shows that 43 branches have been opened during the past two years in the Commonwealth and the Dominion. The total number of branches is now 462, of which New Zealand has 37 ; whilst the membership now stands at 29,341, and the total funds at £218,000. Owing to expense these meetings will in future take place triennially instead of biennially. The New Zealand District Board of the H.A.C.B. Society has decided to postpone the triennial movable meeting, which had been arranged for the end of February, until the first Wednesday after Easter. St. Patrick’s College examination results for 1909. Matriculation, solicitor’s general knowledge, medical preliminary, engineering preliminary Hogan, J. M. Box. Matriculation, engineering preliminary—B. Doherty. Matriculation, medical preliminary, solicitor’s general knowledgeW. B. Buckley, J. Casey. Matriculation, solicitor’s general knowledge—R. Collins, B. Malone. The following, in order of merit, passed the Civil Service examination (Junior): Passed with credit B. Buckley, W. R. Mulgan, J. M. Box, B. Doherty, B. Malone, J. Hogan, J. Casey, R. Collins, W. Hennessy, J. McGinley, C. O’Rourke, T. Stack, A. Beswick, P. Hawkins passed G. Mahoney, P. Kane, F. Yourelle, P. Lawlor, P. Blake, J. Engel, C. Mackay, J. Punch, W. Neylon, P. Mahoney, J. Sullivan. The following changes among the clergy of the archdiocese of Wellington have been announced:—Rev. Father McManus, of New Plymouth, will take charge of the new parish of Inglewood, ■ and Rev. Father Bergin, of Westport, will be in charge of the Manaia parish. These two parishes have just been formed in the Taranaki district. Rev. Father O’Dwyer, of Hawera, will take the place of Rev. Father Tracey, of Stratford, who has been granted twelve months’ leave of absence to enable him to visit tho Old Country. Rev. Father O’Bierne has been transferred to New Plymouth. His place will be filled by the Rev. Father Connolly. Rev. Father McMenamin succeeds Rev. Father Bergin at Westport. Rev. Father L. Daly goes to Feilding as assistant priest. Rev. Father Quealy goes to Palmerston North. Rev. Father Tymons, S.M.. and Rev. Father Eccleton join the staff of St. Patrick’s College. A new departure has been decided on in regard to the Marist Order in New Zealand. A new institution has been established at Island .Bay, at which members of the Order will, .after ten years’ parish work, spend a period of six months for the purpose of revising their studiesa period known as the second novitiate. The institution will be in charge

of the Rev. Father Goggan, S.M., for many, years Bursar at St. Patrick’s College. Rev. Father Goggan’s position as Bursar will be taken by the Rev. Father O’Reilly. The four days’ bazaar in which the Catholics of Carterton are engaged at present with the object of raising funds to liquidate the debt upon the church was formally opened on Wednesday afternoon, February 2, by Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.P. The hall was artistically decorated for the occasion. The Rev. Father Bowe, in introducing Mr. Buchanan, thanked him for coming to open the bazaar. Mr. Buchanan said it gave him great pleasure to come among them for this purpose. He could see round the hall many instances of hard work and enterprise, all exercised for a worthy purpose, and he wished the bazaar all success. Mr. Lavery heartily thanked Mr. Buchanan for coming at some personal inconvenience to open the bazaar. The success that the bazaar would undoubtedly have would be due to the ladies who had worked so hard for the cause. The following is a list of stall-holders and assistants: Fancy stall —Mesdames Monaghan, McPartland, Hadley, and Carmody; assistants — Grengor (2), Williams, Prendeville, and Hickson. Variety stall (including greengrocery department)Mesdames Stempa and Hudson; as—Mesdames Miller, Burgess, and Darroch, Misses Quinn, Manning, Ay aid, Gorman, Burgess, Hudson, and E. Stempa. Lollie stall —Mrs. Colin Goodin; assistants Misses Chapman (2) and Wilde (2). Flower stall — Mrs. Berrill; assistant, Mrs. McKenzie. Parcels —Misses Gwen Berrill, Elsie Sievers, and Phyllis , D’Arcy. Tea rooms Misses C. Berrill and K. Sievers; assistants Mrs. Rautu, Misses Fisher, Pull, Erskine, Carson, V. Fairbrother, Kilmartin, Monaghan, Bish, G. Berrill, Smith, and Eagle. Dredge Misses Grengor and Knutsen. DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH (From our own correspondent.) The Rev. Father O’Connor, S.M., of Napier, son of Mr. E. O’Connor, of the Catholic Book Depot, is at present on a visit to Christchurch. A three weeks’ mission, which is to be conducted by the Redemptorist Fathers, is to be commenced in the Cathedral on Sunday, February 27. The acceptance of the services of the recently-formed Marist Brothers’ School Cadet Corps is gazetted. A meeting of ex-pupils of the school under eighteen years of age is convened for Wednesday evening, to consider the advisability of forming a second corps. There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the Cathedral from the 11 o’clock Mass until after Vespers on Sunday. v The Very Rev. Father O’Sullivan, S.M.A., was at Rangiora on Sunday last, where he lectures on the Egyptian and West African Missions on Monday and Tuesday evenings of this week. On Thursday he is to give an illustrated lecture at Lyttelton, and is due at Oamaru on Sunday next. The Very Rev. Father Price, Adm., presided at a wellattended meeting of the parochial schools renovation committee on last Monday evening. A comprehensive report of the work already done and its cost was given by the Very Rev. Administrator, and considered highly satisfactory. It was unanimously decided to recommend additional work to be done including completion of the iron fence to entirely enclose the boys’ school property and asphalt where necessary both at the boys’ and girls’ schools. A social gathering under the auspices of the Christchurch Catholic Club was held in the club rooms on last Tuesday evening. In a progressive euchre tournament about seventy members and friends participated. Prizes in the tournament were awarded as follow;Ladies’ prizes, Mrs. J. R. Hayward and Miss Payne; gentlemen’s, Mr. Hallins and Mr. Chas. Lafferty. The following contributed towards the musical portion of the programme :—Piano solo, Miss O’Connor; monologue, Mr. F. Rowe; song, Mr. C. Fcttrell; song, Miss M. O’Connor; song, Mr. J. Foley; song, Mr. T. O’Connell; recitation, Mr. F. Rowe. Misses O’Connor and O’Connell played the accompaniments. The president (Mr. J. R. Hayward) thanked those who had attended the gathering, and announced that the weekly programme meetings would be renewed from Tuesday next. On next Sunday will be celebrated the fourth anniversary of the solemn opening of the Cathedral. There will be Pontifical Mass at 11 o’clock and Solemn Pontifical Vespers in the evening, at which the occasional sermon will be preached by the Rev. Father McCarthy, S.M., of Wellington. A new method of contribution to aid in liquidating the existing liabilities is being adopted, and at all the Masses on Sunday envelopes were handed to members of -the congregation. These are to contain the offerings, with the name, address, and amount contributed, and will be collected at the door of the Cathedral at all the Masses and at Vespers on the anniversary festivals. Addressing the congregation at the half-past 9 o clock Mass in the Cathedral on Sunday last, the Very Rev. Father Price, Adm., made a powerful appeal to his hearers to realise the fact that the burden of liabilities should be justly borne by them. His Lordship the Bishop, encouraged by the various pastors of the diocesan parishes, was about to make a personal collection, beginning with the W est Coast, but it

aa as clearly understood that this was to be the final one. The Catholics in the city were enjoying all the privileges of the Cathedral, and were favored in a degree that few outside their own numbers had any conception of yet, withal, but a comparative minority among them had done anything approaching justice to that great and noble undertaking, in itself a treasure not alone to the diocese of Christchurch, but to the Dominion as a whole. At the Theatre Royal, Christchurch, on last Thursday evening, his Lordship Bishop Grimes gave a most interesting and instructive lecture on ‘Picturesque Italy Past and Present,’ illustrated by a large number of finely colored photographs, which were splendidly shown by Mr. E. W. Seager with the aid of powerful limelight apparatus. The lecture was in aid of the expenditure recently incurred in improving and renovating the parochial schools of the Cathedral, and was fairly numerously attended. Among introductory remarks on the subject, his Lordship said he would begin with a trip to modern Turin, viewing the magnificent lake and mountain scenery on the way; treating then of the cities in the north and others on the Mediterranean seaboard. He spoke of the vast differences which were to be encountered in the many cities of Italy, the interesting types of people, the wonderful architectural beauties, and the great historical and religious associations of the old centre of civilisation. He showed views of all the principal cities, those of Rome and Venice being particularly interesting. St. Mark’s, the famous Rialto and Bridge of Sighs, the palace of the Doges, the Grand Canal, and the other wonders of Venice were described in detail, and pagan and Christian Rome were very cleverly contrasted, the views of the catacombs, the inscriptions, historic spots, and the mighty works of the great empire being described with remarkable lucidity. Especially interesting was the description of the Bishop’s visits to the catacombs, where on one occasion he celebrated the Holy Sacrifice and addressed a number of English tourists on the fortitude of the early martyrs. The great works of Trojan, the Appian Way, the Forum, and the other marvels of Rome were touched on, and that portion of the lecture concluded with a fine series of views showing the jubilee celebrations of the late Pope Leo XIII. in the venerable pile of St. Peter’s, the multitude gathered within its precincts, and the Vatican, with its hundreds of rooms; Milan, Pisa, Bologna, Florence, with its great Campanile, Naples, the excavations of Pompeii, Genoa, with the fine statue of Columbus, and many other places and objects of interest, Numerous remarkable examples of church architecture were displayed and commented upon. A very fine photograph in profile of his Holiness Pope Pius X. was shown. In conclusion his Lordship delivered an eloquent peroration, having special reference to the reigning Pontiff and his illustrious predecessors. Grey mouth (From our own correspondent.) At ' a meeting of the executive of the St. Columba Club held last week it was decided to recommend to the Executive of the Federated Catholic Clubs that the Conference of the federated Catholic clubs should start on Good Friday instead of Easter Saturday. Mr. J. Moriarty, travelling representative of the Tablet, is at present in Greymouth. A very pleasing ceremony took place at the establishment of Messrs. C. Smith, Ltd., last Saturday evening, when the employees assembled to bid farewell to Miss C. Campbell, and make her a presentation in view of her approaching marriage. Mr. E. J. Smith, in making the presentation, which consisted of a beautiful silver afternoon tea set and salver, expressed the firm’s regret at her departure, and wished her every happiness in her married life. Mr. R. C. Heffernan suitably responded on behalf of the recipient, after which the gathering dispersed with three cheers for Miss Campbell and her future husband. It is with extreme regret I have to record the death of Mr. James Joyce, of Nelson Creek, which sad event took place somewhat suddenly in the Reefton Hospital last week. Deceased, who was a native of Cork, Ireland, arrived in New Zealand thirty years ago, twenty-two of which he spent in Nelson Creek, where he followed the occupation of a gold miner. The funeral took place last Tuesday, and was very largely attended, friends coming from all parts of the Coast to pay their last tribute of respect. Rev. Father Murphy conducted the burial service at the Church and Nelson Creek cemetery.— In the late Civil Service examination, of the thirteen successful candidates in Greymouth nine were from the local Catholic schools — from the convent school, and James McGlone and Thomas Hogan from the Marist Brothers’ School, ■