AHAURA NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 16, 6 May 1925, Page 17

AHAURA NOTES

, , V : pW '■ (From our own correspondent.) || April 27. ■lt was with deep regret that the people | of, the Ahaura parish learned of the death ' op! the 18th inst. of Rev. Father Riordan, ;i and naturally with the deepest by those who had known him so well as a devoted and earnest priest. Full of missionary zeal he left his parish some ten or eleven years ago take /charge 'of the far-flung parish of Ross, [where his priestly ministrations en- : deared him not only to his own devoted people but to many outside the fold. The tekrs shed around his coffin showed a wealth of’love in the hearts of his sorrowing flock. His simplicity of‘character, his genial disposition,' and kindness of manner won for hitn the admiration of all with whom he came in contact during his sacred ministry. “Father . John” of Ross is dead, but his memory ,'will linger long in many a heart. May he rest in. peace. j The 1 endeavors of Mrs. Smythe and her faithful helpers were crowned with splendid success, when large numbers came to see the great “turn out” held recently in the Ahaura Hall. The function, held in aid of the presbytery improvement fund, was well patronised by great numbers from Ahaura, Nelson Creek, Ngahere, Moonlight, and others,; some.there were from Blackball and Totara Flat. The music supplied by Williams’s orchestra added much to a grand .evening’s amusement. 41The other day Mr. Con O’Meara and his young ’wife paid a short but pleasant visit to his home at Totara Flat, where many fiends of former days extended to him a cordial welcome:■[Last week the : Rev. Father O ’Hare (Lincoln), Father Herbert (Reefton), and Father Dan Healy (Cathedral, Christchurch) were the. guests of Rev. Father Fogarty. His many friends will be pleased to know that Mr. Pat Kennedy, pm., Totara Flat, who recently went under an operation at Greyhioiith for knee trouble, is making a favorable and speedy recovery. ■'A I .4‘ if 1 r ". " . || J ‘[KMKKMyO’ ,