Invercargill

New Zealand Tablet, 19 May 1910, Page 783

Invercargill

(From our own correspondent.) May 16. The annual social in aid of the Catholic Club will be held in the Victoria Hall on Thursday, June 16. A euchre match between the members of the Hibernian Society and those of the Catholic Club took place in the club rooms on Tuesday night. Both societies were well represented, and a very enjoyable evening was spent. The Hibernian side was successful in winning the match. It is intended to hold these matches monthly in future. The following pupils of St. Catherine's Convent, Invercargill, were successful in the theory examinations of last November, conducted by the Associated Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M.: Local centre examinations : Advanced grade, harmony (full marks 150, honors 130, pass 100)—Alice F. Harrington, 105. Rudiments of music (full marks 99, pass 66)—Marion Vera Nelson, 94. School examinations: Hl g h erdivision, harmony (full marks 150, distinction 130; pass 100)—Grace E. Paton, 108. , • The Hibernian Band's sacred concert, which was postponed from last Sunday on account of the death of King Edward, was given in the Gardens yesterday. The following programme was rendered: Funeral March (Beethoven) selection, 'La Gitana' (W. V. Wallace); solo, 'Beautiful Isle of the Sea' (Balfe); selection, 'La Sonnambula' (Bellini) ; euphonium solo, 'Land of hope and glory' (Elgar); Hymn of the Homeland' (Sir A. Sullivan); selection, ii Bravo' (Mercadante); Dead March in 'Saul' (Handel): ' God save the King.' The Southland Times of May 13 devotes its leading columns to a very fair and impartial article on ' The Accession Oath.' After referring to the agitation on foot to amend the oath, the writes goes on. to say: 'The Protestant ( succession is strongly buttressed by the law, and that being 1 so the insistence upon the terms of the Accession Oath, and particularly upon the declaration that certain rites of the Church of Rome are superstitious and idolatrous might very well be omitted. In that Church are to be found thousands of his Majesty's most loyal subjects, and it is surely wanton cruelty to wound their feelings and to affront their religious convictions by compelling the King to denounce in the harshest terms articles of faith which they regard as sacred.'