DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 13 May 1915, Page 35

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

Very Rev. Father Coffey, Adm., celebrated Mass on Sunday at the Five Rivers Camp, when there was a congregation of about one hundred Territorials present. Among those wounded at the Dardanelles was Private Patrick O'Connor, son of• Mr. James O'Connor, secretary of St. Joseph's branch of the Hibernian Society, Dunedin. There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Patrick's Basilica, South Dunedin, on Sunday from the last Mass until after Vespers, when the usual, procession, followed by Benediction, took place. Mr. Alan T, Dougherty, late of the Hibernian Defence Cadets, Dunedin, left for Trentham as a noncommissioned officer with the Auckland Division (Seventh Reinforcements) on Saturday, May 8. The Education Department has notified St Dominic's Priory that, in addition to the results already published in connection with the teachers' examination, Mary T. Wall has passed in Class C, Alice Meenan has obtained distinction in French, Class D, and Ruth Wakelin, distinction in methods of teaching, Class D. The annual meeting of St. Joseph's Ladies' Club was held in St: Joseph's Hall on Wednesday evening of last week, when Rev. Father Corcoran presided over a fair attendance of members. The following .was the report for the year ended April 21, 1915:—We opened the club last year with a membership of 41, which, during the year, increased to 55. We had, after paying the. rent of hall (£l3), a balance of £4 2s Id. It was decided to furnish a room for the use of the club, so that most of last year's balance, as well as a sum of £2 16s, advanced by the president, went towards furnishings, etc. During the year a presentation of a silver hotwater jug was made to the Rev. Mother Prioress.on the occasion of her silver jubilee. We have to thank the Rev. Mother Prioress and others for gifts donated by them towards the furnishing of the club room. We' trust that the club will have a successful year, and hope that the members will do all in their power to make the meetings enjoyable. The election of officers for the current""year resulted as :• —President, Mrs. Jackson; vice-president, Miss J. Duhig ; secretary, Miss E. Salmon; committeeMrs.'. Roley, Misses Murphy, Curran, Roughan, Kelley, * and Toomey. During the evening the members- of the club and others took the opportunity of presenting Miss Lamb, who is leaving Dunedin, with a purse bag. . Rev. Father Corcoran, who made the presentation, referred to Miss Lamb's good qualities, and wished her success- in her new home. ,'■ CATHOLIC SEWING GUILD. '-"jj The Catholic Sewing Guild for Belgian relief met on Wednesday, when the following, donations were re-

ceived:— A. Hall, £1 Is; Miss Mills, 10s; goods from Mrs. Culling (Hill Grove), Mrs. Greenslade, Mrs. O'Keefe. a. .