BLENHEIM NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 45, 12 November 1924, Page 15

BLENHEIM NOTES

(From our own correspondent.)

October 24. The devotions of the Forty Hours’ Adoration commenced here last Sunday, and the church was hardly large enough to contain the congregations at all the services. Rev. Father Vincent, Marist Missioner, has been, the preacher for the occasion, and his sermons have been listened to with great attention and appreciation. The devotions were brought to a close on Tuesday morning, when a Deposition Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Henry S.M.; Very Rev. Dean Holley being deacon; Father Vincent, subdeacon; and Father McCarthy, master of ceremonies. Rev. Father Vincent is conducting a Retreat for the Children of Mary this week. After the usual fortnightly meeting of the Hibernian Society on Tuesday the members met the Oddfellows in a friendly game of euchre and defeated them by 16 games to 14. t A contract has been lot for a new convent school in Picton to cost £2OOO, and it .will be a. great boon to the parishioners there. The contract has also been let for the painting of our own church, presbytery, girls’ school, and St. Patrick’s Hall, at a cost of £315.