DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 23 July 1914, Page 35

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

Rev. I*. O’Neill, of Riversdale, returned during the week from Sydney, where he attended the celebrations in connection with the golden jubilee of St. Patrick’s Ecclesiastical Seminary, Manly. , A concent, will be given in Santa Sabina Schoolroom, North-East Valley, on Friday, by the pupils in aid of the school funds. An excellent programme has been arranged. Says the EvCninr/ Star of July 18:—‘Congratulations to Mr. J. J. Connor, a very old and esteemed member of the printing trade, who, with his wife, today celebrate their golden wedding at their residence in Black’s road, North-East Valley. Arriving in Otago a mere youth in January,' 1862, from Melbourne, with the intention of spending a holiday, he met in Dunedin the lady who in July, 1864, became his life partner, and by whom he has a family of a dozen, all of whom have done well for themselves, and arc scattered over the Dominion. To working printers he is best known as a. member of the firm of Jolly and Connor,

who conducted for seven years a prosperous business in the Octagon and he was the founder, along with the ate Bishop Moran, of the Sew Zealand Tablet, which he printed for twelve years and then handed it over to its present proprietary. On retiring from the printing trade, he entered the ranks of the Bonifaces, and was landlord of the Criterion Hotel and other establishments, but the •' trade ’ was not to his liking, and in it he lost the money he made at his own business. Mr. Connor is 75 and his wife five years his junior. They were the recipients to-day of many felicitations trom their large family and from hosts of friends all over New Zealand. For the next four months they are promised an enjoyable time in visiting their own descendants and many friends, who join in wishing them many happy returns of the day.’