Diocesan News

New Zealand Tablet, 9 August 1917, Page 18

Diocesan News

ARCHDIOCESE OP WELLINGTON (From our own correspondent.) August 4. The sum of .£SO has been donated by the Feilding and District Patriotic Committee to the Catholic field service fund. The annual meeting of the Dominion Council of the N.Z. Catholic Federation will take place at St. Patrick's Hall on Wednesday, August 22. Messrs. J. J. L. Burke and B. Nolan will represent the Dominion Executive at the annual conference of the Catholic Federation on the 22nd instant.

The many friends of the Eev. Father Keogh, S.M., formerly Rector of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, will regret to hear that he is at present dangerously ill at Greenmeadows Seminary, The Catholic Knitting Guild will have charge of the flower stall in Boulcott street in connection with the Red Cross collection next Friday. It will be under the direction of Mesdames J. E. Gamble, (Dr.) Mackin, and Bolton. Through the indefatigable efforts'of Miss Annie O'Kane, of the Grand Central Private Hotel, Cuba street, the funds of the Catholic Knitting Guild have benefited to the extent of .£3l. This amount was raised by means of an art union for a Beehive knitting machine, donated by Miss O'Kane, who also sold the whole of the 600 tickets authorised to be sold by the Minister of Internal Affairs.

The Marist Old Boys’ third grade football team met and were defeated by the Karori team by 3 goals to nil. This is the first defeat sustained by Marists this season. Both teams are now equal for the championship with 12 points each; Institute leading with 14

points. The fourth grade team met and defeated Thorndon by 2 goals to nil, after an interesting game. They are now level with the Empire Club with 12 points each. On account.of the wet weather the fifth grade did not play.

The centenary festival of Marist Brothers will be duly observed by the Marist Old Boys on Sunday, September 9, by a general Communion of all the old boys resident in Wellington, at a special Solemn High Mass to be celebrated at St. Mary of the Angels’ Church, Boulcott street, by priests who are ex-students of the old Boulcott Street School. In the evening, at the same church a special sermon on the illustrious founder of the Order—the Rev. Father Chainpagnet—will be preached by Rev. Father S. Mahony, S.M. (an ex-pupil), now parish priest of St. Mary’s. On the following Monday the secular celebration will take place Alexandra Hall, Abelsmith street. It is hoped that every old boy of the school will make a special effort to worthily celebrate the centenary of a religious Order which has done so much for them, and show their grateful appreciation of the work done by the Marist Brothers in New Zealand by loyally co-operating with the celebration committee in making the celebration one of the largest and most enthusiastic events in the history of the Church in Wellington.