DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 45, 16 November 1922, Page 28

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.) November 13. St. Mary's garden fete will open on December. 9. The various stallholders and committees are working energetically and methodically' to promote its success. In tho Memorial Hall on Saturday evening next, a children's fancy* dress entertainment promises to be a big attraction. Tho extensive additions to St. Mary's presbytery are being rapidly pushed on. "it is expected that the work will be completed prior to Christmas. Rev. Father O'Connell, S.M., will celebrate the silver jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood on November 30. Preparations are well in hand to suitably observe the occasion. His Lordship Dr. Brodio left for Auckland during the week. .'"'•''• His Lordship Dr. Whyte, Bishop of Dunedin, on his return journey from Australia was tho guest of Dr. Brodie. Rev. Brother Denis, Provincial of the Marist Brothers, is at present in Christ-church. He leaves for the South during the coming week.