Diocesan News

New Zealand Tablet, 18 September 1919, Page 21

Diocesan News

t £ l . • ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON .(From our own correspondent.»| ' ; * September 13. Last Sunday week the Catholic officers and men of the H.M.S. New Zealand attended St. Joseph’s Church/ Buckle Street, by the ship’s Fife arid’ Di»im Band. The Rev. Father Hurley, S.M., addressed a few appropriate words to the sailors, arid after Mass each man was handed a parcel containing - Rosary beads, religious pictures, literature, and cigarettes. Mr. M. J. Reardon, the well-known Labor leader, left for San Francisco for a three-months’ holiday granted to him by the Unions with which he is connected. The trustees of the Trcntham Scholarship Fund have been directed by a general meeting, held here recently,, to administer the fund in a broad spirit, and for that purpose private secondary schools arc, provided they are up to the standard, to enjoy the benefits of the fund to which one and all subscribed.

The final meeting of the general committee of. the Thomas Moore Anniversary Festival was held last evening at the Catholic Federation Rooms. Mr. J. P. . McGowan presided. The report and balance sheet of the executive committee were adopted. The following members were appointed an executive committee to make preparations for next year’s function:Rev. Brother Eusebius, Messrs. F. J. Oakes, E: J. Healy, E. P. L. Reade, P. D. Hoskins, and ‘representatives from the Marist Brothers’ School, Tasman Street, and Petone and Lower Hutt. Votes of thanks were accorded to the committee, especially to Mr. F. J. Oakes, who acted as adjudicator, the Rev. Brother Fidelis (now in Auckland), and the secretary.

The net proceeds of the bazaar recently held by the Sisters of Mercy, Kilbirnie, to provide additional accommodation for the High School, reached the handsome sum of £6OO.

The Rev. Father Dalton Campbell, S.M., of St. Anne’s, who has been seriously ill, has now recovered and will shortly be able to resume his duties.

The death has occurred in Wellington of Mr. John Driscoll, of St. Joseph’s parish, a much-respected citizen of nearly 40 years’ standing. Born at Portsmouth, Mr. Driscoll was educated at Greenwich, . with the intention of sending him into the Royal Navy. Eventually that .idea was abandoned, and he went out to Australia when he was about 21 years of age. He was attracted to the West Coast diggings, and for some time was connected with public works at Hokitika, beginning his career in that direction under the late Mr. C. Y. O’Conor over 40 years ago. From the Public Works Department branch at New Plymouth he was transferred to Wellington, and sent to the Treasury, where he was entrusted with the charge of the Local Bodies’ Loans Branch, a position ho continued to hold until his retirement in 1901. In the first New Zealand Government Year-Book there appeared from his pen an ably-written article on Westland. Mr. Driscoll was seized with a paralytic stroke on Monday week, and he passed away last Wednesday. His wife predeceased him by six years. The family consists of three sons Messrs. Denis, : James, and Joseph Driscoll,the lastnamed of whom has just, returned from the Front; and four daughters, one of them (Miss Mary Driscoll) being in the Registrar-General’s —R.I.P. Lieutenant E. W. Coles, an old St. Patrick’s College boy, son of Mr. A. Coles, of Petone, returned from England via Sydney after serving with the Royal Flying Corps. The very many friends of Mr. Maurice O'Connor will regret to learn of the sudden death of his third son, Mr. Maurice Francis O’Connor, which occurred on the 10th September. The deceased gentleman', who leaves a wife and six children, was under the care of a doctor for some time prior to his death.:’ Ho got up as usual, and while in the act of shaving dropped dead. The interment took place on Friday, Requiem Mass being offered at St. Anne’s.— R.l.P. ' .... i.