Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, 17 November 1910, Page 1880

Wanganui

(From our own correspondent.) A meeting is being called at Aramoho for the purpose of establishing a Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society there. The local choir, under the direction of Miss Lilian White, rendered Bruntnell’s Mass for four voices on Sunday last in a manner which was distinctly creditable to them.

The foresight and business acumen displayed by the St. Vincent de Paul Society in purchasing the sections in Castlecliff a few weeks ago were exemplified in the fact that they were recently offered £SO more. than their original purchasing price for the sections. Mr. J. Murphy, who has taken up his residence in the Waikato, was presented by the members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, of which he was a vice-president, with a handsome combined thermometer and barometer, suitably inscribed. Mr. Murphy during his long stay in Wanganui was always to the fore in matters appertaining to the Church, and ho has many well-wishers.

The formation of a library in connection with the local Catholic Defence League has commenced, and Dean Grogan has generously given the League a Chambers’ tin cyclopedia, besides placing at the disposal of the committee some 60 volumes of useful works to which . will be added some 40 books which . are being procured from Australia by the St. Vincent de Paul Society. 1 New volumes' will be added from time to time, whilst the world’s"foremost Catholic newspapers together with the best available statistical works will be always on hand. The Catholic young men of Wanganui, are to be commended for their enterprise and Catholic spirit. By the death at the age of 64 of Mrs, N. Hearn, of St. John’s Hill, Wanganui, which occurred last week, the Church lost a practical member and supporter, and the people of this district a sincere and kind friend. Her kind hospitality and her gentle unostentatious manner won for her the sincere admiration and affection of all whose pleasure it was to know her, arid she will be sorely missed from amongst us. Great sympathy is felt for the relations of the deceased, particularly as this is the second bereavement they have suffered within the past few months. A very largo gathering of all the old settlers of the Waverley district, where for many years the late Mrs. Hearn resided on the estate known as Buenos Ayres;’ assembled to pay their last respects to the deceased, whose remains were interred in the Waverley Cemetery on Saturday morning. The burial service was conducted by the Very Rev Dean Grogan, assisted by the Rev. Father Duffy. The Dean, in a very touching address, extolled the many virtues of the deceased. He had known her for more than a quarter of a century, and there was no one among the whole of his parishioners for whom he had a greater respect. She was one among many. What an example her life had been He had never heard her say an unkind or uncharitable word. 1 Never knew her to do an un-Christian act. Her whole life long had been one of self-denial, and she had habitually made sacrifices in order that she might help someone who was less fortunate, but so unostentatious was she that verily her right hand never knew what her left hand had done. Her goodness had been reflected in her family, and was it to be wondered the devotion of a family for such a, mother? For them her place would never be filled; for the Church he did not know when he would meet t(T filT 1 11 IV as a S ° oC * C * fc * zen her place would be hard