Gisborne

New Zealand Tablet, 4 March 1920, Page 33

Gisborne

(From our own correspondent.) February 15. It was announced by Father Lane, on his return from Auckland, that his Lordship the Bishop, the. Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, would make an episcopal visitation of Gisborne early in April, and administer the Sacrament of Confirmation. Father Finn, who has just recovered from a severe illness, lias been on a visit to Ormond. Very Rev. Dean McGuinness, of Te Aroha, celebrated both Masses at St. Mary’s Church last Sunday, and at the devotions in the evening preached an impressive sermon appropriate of the Lenten season. The devotions included the Stations of the Cross and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Father Lane. On the same occasion Mr. Charles Smythe, a noted Australian bass vocalist, gave a fine rendering of the “Pro Peccatis” from Rossini’s “Stabat Mater.”