Christchurch North

New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1915, Page 36

Christchurch North

November 1. During the month of October the devotions in honor of Our Lady were attended by large numbers of the congregation. St. Mary s Tennis Club opened its season on Sunday afternoon under favorable auspices. The Rev. Father Hickson, S.M., in the absence, owing to indisposition, of the Rev. Father IToare, S.iM., in a happy speech declared the court open. The Very Rev. Dean Hills, S.M., Adm., was also present. Mr. G. C. Hayward (vice-president) also addressed the assemblage. After a few friendly games were indulged in, afternoon tea was served, and a pleasant afternoon was brought to a close by a vote of thanks to the officials who were responsible for the afternoon’s entertainment. -• .

( Private William E. Cronin, eldest son of Mrs. Cronin (organist at St. Mary’s), who was wounded at the front and came home by the Willochra, arrived in Christchurch on Sunday evening by the special train from Dunedin. Private Cronin is looking remarkably well, considering what he has come through. After being discharged from the hospital at Malta and having returned to the front, he suffered from severe pains in the head, and it was discovered that the bullet which had caused his wounds three months previously had not been extracted. The operation of extracting the bullet had, under the circumstances, to be performed without an anaesthetic, and Private Cronin now has in his possession a rather forcible memento of his experience in the Dardanelles—a Turkish bullet.