Diocesan News

New Zealand Tablet, 12 May 1910, Page 732

Diocesan News

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.)

May 7. -. The Rev. Father A. T. Herring, S.M., has been appointed honorary chaplain of the St. Anne’s Rifle Cadets. The Rev. Fathers O’Connell and Kimbell, S.M., will hold a mission next month at Otaki. The work among boys in the parishes of Wellington is gradually increasing. • Another Boys’ Club will be started in the rhorndon parish next Friday. n. r There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St Mary of the Angels’ Church on Sunday from the last Mass until vespers. T i May 3 Miss Alice Dougherty was married to Mr. John Fouhy (both of Hukanui) in the Catholic church, Hamua. The Very Rev. Dean McKenna performed the ceremony. xt ,iA very pleasant social evening was held at the Victoria Hall, Newtown, on Wednesday, under the auspices of the ladies branch of the Sacred Heart Society. An excellent supper was provided. ii 0. 11 Monday evening the members of the literary and debating branch of the Wellington Catholic Club held their usual weekly meeting at St. Patrick’s Hall, when the programme consisted of impromptu readings. There was a large gathering of members. Un The monthly Communion of the members of the Sacred Heart Confraternity and the St. Aloysius Boys’ Club of the St. Anne s parish, Wellington South, was well attended, especially by the boys of the club, on Sunday, May 1 In the evening there was a large attendance at the monthly meeting. The Yen. Archdeacon Devoy, S.M. preached ah impressive sermon on the Sacrament of Baptism. The St. Mary’s (women’s) branch of the Hibernian Society met in St. Patrick’s Hall on May 4, when the follow ing officers were duly installed: —President, Sister K. Robr O AV W rrT + dent ’ Slste cf- ¥ etcher 1 secretary, Sister G. O’Flaherty; treasurer, Sister A.’ Grant • warden Sister F. Flaherty; guardian, Sister M. O’Callaghan - sick visitors, Sisters Gosling and O’Callaghan. S • ’ Slck VISI * . , 1n* 1 !, 6 fifth class Rugby football-competition St. Patrick s College scored 42 points to Poneke’s nil. The scorers were Barry (3), Goughian (2), Buckley (2), Sullivan (3) and

Connor (2). Brennan, Goughian, and Malone converted tries. In this game the College team gave a really splendid exhibition of passing. .

It has been decided by the Cabinet to make a grant of £SOO compensation to the widow of Sergeant McGuire. This grant is in addition to the ordinary payment, £lB a year, which Mrs. McGuire will receive from the Superannuation Fund, of which the deceased was a member. Miss Ethel Devine, daughter of Cr. J. J. Devine, of Wellington terrace, and an esteemed member of St. Mary’s Church, Boulcott street, has joined the nursing staff of the Timaru Hospital. Miss Devine went to school at the Timaru Convent, and has many friends in the district.

The St. Vincent’ s_Guild for Boys has been making good progress, ,and quite a number of new members have been admitted since its inauguration last January. The ordinary weekly gathering of boys was held on last Friday evening at St. Patrick’s Hall. A ping-pong tournament (handicap) took place, and was won by Master Lawrence Butler. Four new members gave in their names for enrolment at the meeting of the Sacred Heart Society on Sunday at St. Mary of the Angels’ Church.

A meeting of the parishioners of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Wanganui, was held on Sunday to consider the building scheme, which was explained by the Very Rev. Father O’Shea, S.M., V. 6., who said that a new church, presbytery, and convent would be required. An influential building committee of ten parishioners was elected, with power to act, of whom Mr. Thomas Lloyd was appointed secretary. It was decided to start the new convent, as it was most urgently needed. The plans of the buildings are being prepared by Mr. J. S. Swan, of Wellington,

A very large audience of seamen and waterside workers greeted the usual fortnightly concert given under the auspices of St. Patrick’s Seamen’s Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in the Sailors’ Rest on Monday evening. The applause with which the various items ere received must have been very gratifying to the ladies and gentlemen who contributed to the following excellent programme : —Miss Allen (song), Miss Bell (song), Misses Frith (songs). Miss Matheson (song), Miss Daisy McLellan (Highland fling), Miss Rowell (waltz clog dance), Miss Scanlon (recitation), Messrs. Lambert (comic speciality), Lansdowne (comic items), Roach (song), Sharpe (song), Sweeney (song), Miss and Master Rowell (pianoforte duet). The accompaniments were played by the Misses Davison, Doherty, Frith, and Rowell. -

The results of the theory examinations held last November by the representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music, and Royal College of Music, London, came to hand by last week’s mail, being unduly delayed by the illness of one of the examiners in Australia. Passes are as follow as far as convent pupils are concerned: —• Local centre examinations: Advanced grade, harmony (full marks 150, honors 130, pass 100) —Nita Green (St, Mary’s Convent), 102. Rudiments of music (full marks 99, pass 66)—Eileen Gibbs (St. Mary’s Convent), 81; Elsie May Boot (St. Mary’s Convent), 78; Myrtle M. Stephens (St. Mary’s Convent), 77. Rose Segrief (St. Mary’s Convent) was awarded the 1909 gold medal for advanced grade singing, obtaining 140 marks. In the advanced grade pianoforte playing Margaret McKenna (St, Bride’s Convent, Masterton) was next to the winner in order of merit. The Victor Harris gold medal was awarded to Alice D. Rainbow (the Convent, Palmerston North) for pianoforte playing. It is with sincere regret that I record the death of Mr. Edward Drennan, who passed away at the residence of his nephew, Mr. M. fiowe, Wallace street, Wellington, on Monday night, April 25. Deceased was an old settler in the Westport district. He as born in Kilkenny in 1835, and came out to Australia in 1856. Between 25 and 30 years ago he took up his residence in Westport, and was in business there for a considerable time, but of late years he had been engaged in agricultural pursuits at Charleston. He left Westport on the Tlth ult., accompanied. by his niece, with the object of going to. Ireland in the lonic, but shortly after he arrived in Wellington he was laid up with pneumonia and an affection of the heart, and four days later he succumbed. The deceased took a prominent part in, local affairs at Westport, and was much respected by the townspeople. The remains were taken from Mr. Bowe’s residence to St. Joseph’s Church, Buckle street, where a Requiem Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Hurley, S.M. The interment took place at Karori Cemetery. The Rev. Father Quinn, S.M., officiated at the graveside.—R.l.P. ■ The annual meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society was held on Wednesday night, when there was an unusually large audience owing to the attractive programme presented. The president (Mr. A. Hamilton) occupied the chair, and gave his annual address. The Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy dealt with the physical constitution and changes of comets, remarking that though some things pertaining to them were now known with great certainty, they at the same time presented problems of the most difficult nature. Comets were attracted to and also repelled by the sun, they shoi\e with a ■ reflected light and with their own light as well, but the reasons for these things were not fully known. With this by way of preface, the speaker presented and Explained an excellent series of photographic slides of the comet -which had been taken by himself at the Meanee Observatory quite recently. In dealing with some previous

appearances he mentioned that the mass of comets was so small that astronomers had not been able to measure it. This fact was expressed in the somewhat exaggerated statement that if a comet was properly packed it could be put in a waistcoat pocket; It was certainly true that comets, enormous though they were, were no greater in mass than some of the smaller asteroids, which were not more, perhaps, than ten miles across. . The tail of a comet was particularly attenuated, the rarefication of the gas at the ex-tremities-being greater than anything which could be produced with the vacuum pump. There was, therefore, nothing at all to fear when the earth passed through the tail of Halley’s comet later on this month.