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

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(From our own'correspondent.) November 24. The statement I made a short time ago concerning Rev. Father Tymons Bhould have read as follows :— ' The people will, no doubt, feel highly gratified when they know that Rev. Father Tymons is the first priest born and educated in New Zealand who has been entrusted with the sole charge of a parish.' At a meeting of the St. Columba Literary and Debating Club held last night, the prizes won during the session were presented by the Very Rev. Dean Bark. The prize donated by the president (Father Tymons) for the best essay on the work of a standard English author, was won by Mr. £. Loftas. The same member also carried off the Dean's prize for the most useful member during the session. The former prize consisted of the Popular Educator (Cassell's) in Bix vols., and the latter was Chambers'* Cyclopas&ia of English Literature (two vols.). The promoters of the farewell social tendered last week to Rev. Father Tymons have every reason to be satisfied with the suocees that attended their efforts. St. Mary's Hall was crowded iiji every part, and the proceedings throughout were most enthusiastic? As a

full report appeared in your last issue, I shall not go into details. On November 16, the Rev. Father Tymons was invited to pay a visit to the Marist Brothers' School, and was presented by the pupils with a nicely-worded address and a voluminous dictionary, handsomely bound, and bearing the following appropriate words on the binding :— ' A friend in need is a friend indeed.'