Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 40, 21 October 1925, Page 30

Wanganui

(From our own Correspondent.) ; ' October 16. Rev. Father Flanagan, of Ipswich, Queensland, spent a little time in : Wanganui on his way ; round. Rev. Father Flanagan is holidaying in New Zealand—on a health tour really—-and all wish hiih'a-plehsaht time in our Dominion. • >:■¥. s Rev. Father Joyce, Marist Missioner, also was a visitor here while on his way to New Plymouth. Father Joyce was going to preach for the Forty Hours’ Adoration at New Plymouth, and give a Retreat to the Children of Mary. A very successful social and dance was held at Okoia last week, in aid of funds for new vestments. Knowing how urgent the need is, and perhaps, too, feeling just like a glad night, a record crowd foregathered’ at the Okoia Hall and those interested were hard put to know how to arrange things so that everyone would have a good time. Everything went off well, and those who worked so hard to achieve such a success deserve great credit indeed. We’ve still got the weather with us, the Cyrena is no more, but the departed whale has been replaced by a fleet of dead cows. The local papers refer to them as “bovines,” but whatever they are, they’re quite dead, they were brought down river from somewhere or other, and decided-to rest quietly on the mud flats just near the Town Bridge. Fortunately, the arguments to whose privilege it was to dispose of them didn’t last long, and they were insinuated, ever so gently, into the river again, with instructions t o' get themselves hence. There was a vague sort of fear that they might take a look in at Castlecliff, but they seem to have gone for good. There were only seven of them, in all. Far too many for hot days!