HASTINGS NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 37, 20 September 1923, Page 15

HASTINGS NOTES

An old and esteemed resident of ..the Wairarapa and Uawke's Bay districts (writes a correspondent under date September 9) in the person of Mrs. Eliza Richards passed away at the residence of her daughter-in-law, Hastings, oil the 2nd inst., after a long illness. She was a convert to the Faith, and was an exemplary Catholic. A native of Tring, Hertfordshire, England, she arrived in Napier in 1859, and reached the ripe age of 82 years. She leaves a family of five sons and two daughters. Rev. Father McDonald attended her through her illness, and she died fortified by the rites of the Church.—R.l.P.

His Grace Archbishop O'Shea is to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation at Hastings on September 30. A large gathering of the Hastings parishioners assembled at the school on last Thursday evening to bid farewell to Father McDonald, who is about to enter on his second novitiate at the Marist House, Fielding. Mr. W. Y. Dennett presided, and in a happy speech eulogised the good work done by Father McDonald. Mr. J. T. Blake, on behalf of the congregation, presented Father McDonald with a silver shaving outfit and a purse of notes, and spoke in glowing terms of the fine qualities of the departing priest. Messrs. F. Pimley and J. A. Gallagher also spoke in a similar strain. Father McDonald suitably replied, and introduced Father N. Maloney, who is to "carry on" during the former's absence.

Father O'Shea, of the Irish Mission to China, is at present in Hastings collecting funds for the mission.

Eighty-six thousand adult conversions in China in 1922.—Have you co-operated in this harvest of souls? "He who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins." (St. James, v. 20.)