DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1913, Page 24

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.) August 11. The staff and pupils of the Marist Brothers' School desire to thank Mr. S. Flood, of the Grosvenor Hotel, Sergeant Ryan, of Lyttelton, and Mr. E. Crooke, of Addington, for donations of coal sent to. the school during the winter. A letter received last week by the Very Rev. Chancellor Price, Adm., from Bishop Grimes, intimated that his Lordship left England at the end of June to make his ad limina visit, and that he was due there again in October. His Lordship's health, so he stated, was much improved, but he was easily fatigued. An entertainment is to be given in the King's Theatre on next Saturday evening by the musical and dramatic section of the Marist Brothers' Old Boys' Association in aid of the necessary equipment of their section at the Cathedral fund carnival. An excellent programme has been arranged, and as the company have been vigorously rehearsing for some time a performance of more than ordinary merit may be. looked for. The following officers were elected at the meeting on last Sunday of St. Anne's Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Woolston:—President, Bro. W. Jenyns; vice-presidents, Bro. Mcßrearty and Bro. Clentworth; secretary and treasurer, Bro. F. Smith. Visits to the Catholic inmates of the Jubilee Memorial Home weekly, and distribution of Catholic literature were reported as some of the good work done by members. The Very Rev. Chancellor Price, Adm., left by the Ulimaroa on last Thursday, on a brief visit to

.■ Sydney. He :expects to return in about a fortnight, and will bring with him from the Lewisham Hospital the plans for the hospital to be erected /on Bealey avenue, Christchurch, for the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company of; Mary. These plans are prepared by the architect in Sydney, who is by experience in previous similar work conversant with the Sisters' requirements. Immediately on receipt of , the plans the work of erecting the hospital will be commenced. •; The social evening, promoted by the Children of Mary and Ladies of Charity of the Cathedral in aid

Back Row: Rev. Father Coffey, Adm. (Dunedin), Mr. J. R. ward, Vice-president (Christchurch), Rev, Father Edge (Auckland).. ~ , Front Row: Mr. D. L. Poppelwell, Vice-president (Dunedin), Mr. Geo. Girling-Butcher, President (Wellington), Mr. B. McLaughlin, Vice-President (Auckland), Mr. P. D."Hoskins, Prov. Secretary. Absent: Very Rev. Chancellor Price (Christchurch), Very Rev. Dean Hyland (Rangiora), Very Rev. Dean Holley (Wanganui), and Messrs. J. W. Callaghan (Wellington), E. R. Casev (Auckland), and C. A. Shiel (Dunedin). *

of the furnishing of their combined stall at the forthcoming carnival, held last Wednesday evening in the Oddfellows' Hall, St. Asaph street, was most successful, the attendance being large. The first and second prizes in the euchre tournament were won by Misses J. O'Connell and Foley, and Messrs. J. Walley and J. Shrimpton respectively. Miss Walley was president, and Miss O'Connell secretary in the arranging and carrying out of the event, with the valued assistance of Mrs. F. Green.