DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 8 February 1917, Page 35

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

We sincerely regret to learn of the death, at Holy Cross, Tipperary, Ireland, of the father of Rev. Win. Corcoran, recently appointed to the Roxburgh parish. A meeting will be held in St. Joseph’s Hall on next Sunday evening for the purpose of forming a committee to take steps to secure the due celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Sunday being the first Sunday of the month, there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph’s Cathedral from the last Mass until after Vespers, when the usual procession was held, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The following students of St. Philomena’s College, South Dunedin, were successful in the N.Z. Education Department’s Intermediate examinations for Senior Free Places in secondary schools; —Kathleen McDevitt, Agnes Carroll, Moana Ppppelwell, Williamena Harty. In the public examinations held in November last, Zella Henderson passed the Public Service examination; Hyacinth Collins, Ruth Biggins, Alice Bell. Mollie Cotter, and Margaret Clarke secured passes in the Intermediate examination ; H. Collins’s name appears on the credit list. The. above are all pupils of St. Dominic’s College. Of the ten candidates presented by the Christian Brothers’ School for the Public Service entrance examination the following were successful;— Sebastian S. Vallis (credit), Terence J. O’Brien (credit), Vincent J. Pledger, John J. Noonan, John Miller, Francis M. Kennedy, KevinJT. Thompson, Fabian M. Dawson. They also qualified for Senior Free Places. The annual school picnic for the Catholic children in Dunedin and suburbs was held at Evansdale on Wednesday. . A very large number went by the special train, which left town at 9 o’clock. The weather, which had been very unpropitious during the early part of the week, cleared up somewhat on Wednesday morning and gave indication of a fine day for the outing.

••The stormy weather on Tuesday was no doubt, responsible for keeping many :of the more faint-hearted in their homes. . •; .