Visit of Bishop Grimes.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 269, 14 October 1902, Page 3

Visit of Bishop Grimes.

At St. Patrick’s Church, Waimate,* oi Sunday evening, His Lordship Bishop Grimes announced that the sum of £258 had 'heon collecte 1 in the Waimate district for the Cathedral Fund. Of this £IOO was given by Mr Nicholas Quinn, Makikihi, and £SO at Wailrao on that day. The matter had been taken up enthusiastically throughout the parish. The sum collected was most munificent considering the slender resources of the parish, and would elicit the admiration-even of their dear separated brethren. One evening last week His Lordship, accompanied by Dean Foley, Monsignor McKay, and Fathers Kerloy, Petit, Regnault and Aubrey, visited St. Patrick’s school. A welcome chorus was sung by the children, after which a presentation of a purse of sovereigns, collected f the Cathedral Fund by the jiupiL, was made to the Bishop by «I asters Patrick Oosgrave and Prank Lnndun. A pianoforte duet was then played by Misses Ethel Jo-mi and Francis Flynn, after which a cantata entitled “ Discontent" was pm-formed, the principal performers being Norah Creinins, Nellie Pearce, Nellie Wheeler, a. nnic Sullivan and Evvio Lundon. Tim accompaniste throughout was Miss Kthel -Icues, 11 is Lordship thanked the children for the great pleasure the cantata had been to him. He also thanked them for the work they had done in collecting the money, which Im would gladly put to the Cathedral Fund. IPs Lordship left Waimate on Monday morning to spend the day in Timaru, proceeding to Christchurch by the express to lay the foundation stone of a new presbyter v Icing erected in St. Mary’s p irish. Manchester Street, Christchurch.