NASEBY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 90, 16 January 1875, Page 9

NASEBY.

++ A GBEAT many events have transpired here 'since my last communication. There was first the bazaar iv aid of St. Patrick's Church which, lam happy to say, was a complete success. Next came the election of a member to represent the district in the Provincial Council, and on the very same day the examination of the children attending the Roman Catholic school. The majority of the children passed the ordeal with credit, and their proficiency reflects the highest credit upon their teacher, not alone for their answering the several questions put, but their uniform good conduct and decorum on the occasion. In giving an account of their secular studies I must not omit to state that their religious instruction was not forgotten. The children for their first Communion, about 12 or 14 of them, were in retreat for three days before. Their first Conmiimion took place on the 20th Dec, and the renewal of their baptismal vows and consecration to the Blessed , s Virgin on the same day was most edifying. The exhortation of the Rev. Father Royer to the children at the time was most touching ; its simplicity, pathos, and homeliness could ba understood by the most juvenile of his hearers. At Christmas we had midnight High Mass, and a large congregation in attendance. At eleven o'clock on Christmas Day the congregation were reminded of their duty to the Church, to its pastors, and above all to their Grod — " He that will not hear the Church let him be to tb.ee as a heathen and a publican." The preacher reminded them of the devotion of t Heir fathers to the Church and its pastors in holy Ireland, and what they suffered for it times gone by ; but, alas, what a falling off ! The annual meeting of the Kaseby Branch H.A.C.B. Society took place on the 31st December. After transacting the' usual routine business the following officers were elected for the ensuing six months: Messrs Joseph Kealy, president ; Clancey, vice-president 5 Gordon, secretary ; O'Connell, treasurer ; Costello, warden ; and Gantier, guardian. On yesterday'tlie mombers afcfceaded their religious duties in regalia. ' Jan. 11, 1875. j HißEßSictrs,