Onehunga

New Zealand Tablet, 19 November 1914, Page 43

Onehunga

(From an occasional correspondent.) c , he two weeks’ mission conducted bv Rev. Fathers O Sullivan, C.SS.R., and Grogan, C.SS.R., in the Church of the Assumption, Onehunga, was brought to c. dose on Sunday ’ Bth inst when over 350 approached the Holy Table. _ The Church was well filled at all the Masses and evening devotions, and at the closing sermon theie was scarcely seating accommodation for the largo number who attended. The Rev Father O’Sullivan said at the end of his closing sermon that it was one of the most successful missions he ever assisted in. Very Rev Dean Mahoney also expressed himself as beiim highly gratified with the result. w b The pupils attending the commercial classes at the Onehunga Convent School have again passed with honors in elementary and intermediate shorthand and bookkeeping at the recent examination held at the National Business College, Sydney? having obtained 85 and 90 per cent, each in both subjects. This is highly satisfactory, both to the pupils ‘and the Sister who is teaching them. Invercargill (From our own correspondent.) The date of the Pan-Southland gathering for 1915 has been fixed for Wednesday, February 10. The gathering will again, take place at Riverton'. The various secretaries in the country parishes are invited to communicate with*| the local secretaries— J. McNamara and T. Pound—forwarding any suggestions for improvement on the last function. The Irish national “concert in aid of the Belgian Fund, which will eventuate on the 25th inst.,-will be opened by the Very Rev. Dean Burke, a V.F., who will give a short address on the Belgians and the part they have played in the present war. . Last month the Very Rev.. Dean Burke, V.F., conducted a most successful retreat for the local branch of the Children of Mary. On the concluding Sunday evening a procession took place in the Basilica, and ,it was most impressive. On this occasion over twenty aspirants were admitted to the sodality. : , On Sunday next the committee of the Catholic Federation will be in attendance before and after both Masses, for the purpose of enrolling those who have not yet joined the Federation for this year. ' .