ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1919, Page 23

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

-,:■. ■■"--- •■•-■• (From our own correspondent.) -' ;;' 1 v ; ' ; ' - August 8. A very successful social was held at the Alexandra Hall during the week by the Brooklyn parishioners. The annual social' of the ladies' branch of the Hibernian Society was held at the Alexandra Hall on last Saturday evening. The, function was most successful, both financially and socially, and the committee, of which Sisters Griffin arid Lyons were joint secretaries, are deserving of every credit for the satisfactory result of their efforts. ',.>'.. . -. A Solemn Requiem Mass was offered at St. Joseph's Church, Buckle Street, on Wednesday last, for the repose of the soul of Father James Taylor, S.M., Superior of the Marist Missionary Fathers, who died recently at Townsville, Queensland. The Very Rev. P. Whelan, C.SS.R., was celebrant, Very Rev. J. A. O'Connell, S.M., deacon, Rev. T. McCarthy, S.M., subdeacon, and Rev. D. Hurley, S-M., Adm., master of ceremonies. His Grace Archbishop Redwood and his Grace Coadju-tor-Archbishop O'Shea were present, also the Right Rev. Mgr. McKenna, V.G., Very Rev. Dean Holley, S.M. (Provincial), Ven. Archdeacon Devoy, Fathers Mahony, Smyth, Hoare, Dignan, M. Devoy, Kimbell, Campbell, Gilbert, Gondringer, Cullen (2), Schaeffer, Out-trim, Buckley, Ryan, Mangan, C.SS.R., Kilbride, C.SS.R., Melu, Daly, Quealy, Fay, and J. Herring. The church was well filled, and the choir of the clergy and students of St. Patrick's College, under the conductorship of Father Kimbell, with Father Schaeffer at the organ, rendered the music.—R.l.P. The controversy in the correspondence columns of the Dominion concerning the religion of Marshal Foch has ended, as we all expected, with the defeat of the P.P.A. champion. The latter based his case chiefly on the absence of the Marshal's name from the Catholic Who's Who, but his opponent, 8.J.G., had merely to point out that the Who's Who is mainly a list of English Catholics, and that even the Pope's name does not appear in it. Finding himself again cornered, and having the choice between confessing his ignorance or indicating that he intended to mislead his readers, the P.P.A. leader ended this fight, as he did a former one, by running away. As an interesting sequel, I may mention that one of our local Catholics, Mr. P. W. Galvin, has sent Marshal Foch, as a tribute from a fellow-Celt and Catholic, a magnificent set of pipes, made of New Zealand wood. The pipes were sent through "8.J.G.," who, in a letter accompanying the gift, expressed the hope that the Marshal would use them sometimes, now that the sword is sheathed and he has leisure to smoke "the pipe of peace."