ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 48, 30 November 1899, Page 5

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

(From our own correspondent.) November 25. The prizes won at St. Patrick's College sports meeting are to be presented on Sunday. The Rev. Father Keegan, for many years stationed in the archdiocese, is now a curate in a parish in London. The midsummer entertainment and annual distribution of prizes at St. Patrick's College will take place on Thursday evening. On Wednesday, the Feaßt of St. Cecilia, St. Cecilia's Choir of St. Mary's Convent, rendered some exceptionally choice music during the holy sacrifice of the Mass in honour of the patron saint The date on which the examinations for the two annual scholarships given by St. Patrick's College will be held is not yet definitely settled, but they will probably take place between the 11th and 18th of December. At the first Mass on Sunday at St. Joseph's Church 13 of the students of St. Patrick's College received their First Communion. The Rev. Father Herbert, who prepared the boys, celebrated the Mass and preached an instructive sermon. Tickets for an art union in connection with the Easter bazaar, having for its object the furnishing of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart when completed, are now being printed, and will shortly be in circulation. Besides very many good prizes there are about a dozen oil paintings, varying in value from £10 to £100. The General Election campaign is now fairly under way. This week's meetings have been of a somewhat rowdy nature. It is now announced that the candidates who are to receive the Government support are Meßsrs. T. K. Macdonald and C. Luke. A third has not yet been decided on, and it is quite likely that only two will be run. The Rev. Father Coffey, of South Dunedin, was in Wellington this week. He came for the purpose of meeting bis sister who arrived from Home on Friday. She is a Dominican Nun and on her way to Dunedin. The Rev. Father Smyth, of Hastings, who is Father Coffey's cousin, was also on the wharf on the arrival of the steamer. The entertainment given by the Dixon street School children in aid of the school requisites was, in consequence of the large numbers unable to gain admission at the previous productions, repeated on Monday, when the hall was well filled. The children deserve great praise for their efforts. The financial result of the entertainment was highly satisfactory. A general meeting of St. Mary's Convent ex-Pnpils' Association was held in the Convent on Tuesday evening. It was announced that donations, amounting to over £50 towards the cost of the Sisters' cottage at Titahi Bay, had been received from friends outside the Association. It was decided that in view of the many calls at present being made on the Catholics of the oity to postpone the proposed garden party until after the Easter bazaar.