Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, 11 January 1917, Page 26

Timaru

(From our own correspondent. y January 8. The yearly retreat of the Nuns of the Sacred Heart commences on Monday evening. The retreat is to be preached by the Rev. Father Boy lan, S.J. Rev. Father Venning, S.M., preached at the evening devotions on Sunday. There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament all day and after the sermon the monthly procession took place. The annual spiritual retreat for ladies, which was preached by Rev. Father Boylan, S.J., began at the Convent of the Sacred Heart on Monday evening, January 1, and was very largely attended.* The retreat was brought to a close on Saturday morning with the imparting of the Papal Blessing and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Miss Dorothy Mason, L.A.8., has received word from Mr. E. C. Cachemaille, resident secretary in New Zealand for the Associated Board, that her pupil, Veda Townsend, gained the highest marks awarded in New Zealand in the Elementary Division in the recent examinations of 1916. This little girl, who is just ten years of age, gained full marks in exercises, correctness of fingering, and sight-reading, and gained a grand total of 138 out of a possible 150. CATHOLIC GIRLS' PRIMARY SCHOOL. On Friday, December 22, the scholastic year was brought to a close. A little concert was given by the pupils, and the prizes were distributed by the Very Rev. Dean Tubman. Generous donations towards the prize fund had been made by his Lordship the Bishop of Christ church, Dean Tubman, and Mrs. T. W. Lynch. ,Tho prize list is as under: Standard Vl.—Gertrude Lynch, Annie McAuley, Lucy O'Brieif. Standard V.—Margaret Jobson, Veronica King (2), Kathleen O'Meeghan, Lucy Neeson, Kathleen Roper, Winifred Fitzgerald. Standard IV.—Hilda Lack, Kathleen O'Connor, Mary Quinn (2). Standard lll.—Gertrude Kearns (2), Rita Leeming, Patricia Lynch, Mary Mallouk. Standard 11. Mildred Fountain, Winifred Geanev (2), Maty McAuley (2), Fionika Ogden, Eileen Quinn " (2), Rita Richardson. Standard I.—Upper Division: Freda Battersby Margaret Conlon (2), Teresa Kirk, Mary Martin (2)' Phyllis Neil, Phyllis O'Brien (2). Lower DivisionMurtagh Mallouk (2), Veronica Goddard, Teresa Kyle Kathleen McAuley (2), Nancy Ryan (2). '

Special Rewards.—Standards VI. and V. Winifred Fitzgerald, Kathleen O'Meeghan, Margaret Johnson, Lucy Neeson, Grace Fountain. Standards IV. and lll.—Teresa Kent, Kathleen ; O'Connor, Annie Flint, Margaret Stirling, Eileen Rothwell, Eileen Delury. Standards II and I.—Teresa Kyle,, Mildred Fountain, Mary McAuley, Nellie Mellor, Annie Kyle, Winifred Geaney, Fionika Ogden, Kathleen McAuley, Nancy Ryan, Murtagh Mallouk, Teresa Kyle.