DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 30 January 1919, Page 27

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

St. Dominic's College, Dunedin, will re-open on Tuesday next, February 4. St. Joseph's Glee Club will resume practice in St. Joseph's Hall on next Monday evening at 7.30. All the Catholic primary schools of St. Joseph's Cathedral parish re-open on Monday next for the ensuing scholastic year. ' ' The new Catholic school situated in Clyde Street, Mornington, to be conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, will be opened on Monday next for the first time. St. Philomena's College and St. Patrick's primary schools, South Dunedin, will re-open on February 3. Boarders should be in residence on Monday evening. Miss Agnes Segrief, of Wellington, gave a most artistic and devotional rendering of Niedermeyer's "Pater Noster" at Vespers in St. Joseph's Cathedral on last Sunday evening. Seventy-seven Sisters of Mercy from the convents of the Order throughout the diocese assembled at the Mother House, South Dunedin, for their annual eight days' retreat, which was conducted by Father M. O'Leary, S.M., and came to a close on Friday, 24th inst. An interesting letter is to hand from Lieutenant James Monaghan, son of Mr. John Monaghan, St. Andrew Street, Dunedin, and brother of Father ' Monaghan, of this diocese. He left Dunedin with the Tenth Reinforcements as a private, and was given his commission in the field, and was in the final fighting before the armistice. Incidentally he mentions the gallantry of Lieutenant Michael McKeefry, who was killed leading his platoon in action. Lieutenant Monaghan writes that the New Zealanders took the news of the armistice without the slightest rejoicing, keeping nrv 4-v»*»-ii* roivif n+mn a a rMa4-.4;gT , lQ£.£a(;4\ soldiers. He expects to be home shortly after the signing of peace, as

the New Zealanders are forming part of the army of occupation in Germany. ;