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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 7 December 1899, Page 20

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The Rev. Hubert Hickman, vicar of St. Mary's District Churoh *rome, has been lately received into the Church by the Bishop of Clifton. *

According to the London correspondent of the Cork Examiner, Mr. Lionel Paillips, the Kaffir magnate, and Mrs. Meyer are among the recent converts to the Church.

Mrs. Mocenni, wife of Mr. Philip Mooenni, well known in business circles in Perth, Scotland, was on Sunday, Ootober 1, received into the Church by Father P. J. Brady, St. John's, Perth. The papers of the city of Mexico announce the reception into the Catholic Church of Miss Mary Heimke, daughter of one of the secretaries of the United States Embassy. One of her sponsors was Senora Diaz, wife of the President of the Mexican Republic.

Nineteen converts were recently received into the Catholio Church at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Newport, Kentucky, United States, by the Right Rev. Bishop Macs. A month previous seven were baptised by the chaplain, Father McDonald, making a total of 26 conversions within a few months.

«. n i 8i 8 - Ma £ el y> of Br aoondale, Norwiob, England, was received into theCathohc Church atSt. Mary's, Great Yarmouth, by the Rev. Father Hassan, S J., on Thursday. September 7, and made her first Communion the following morning, the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady, when her three sons were also received by Father Hassan. Hon. Casey Young, ex-member of Congress, and for 35 years one of the most distinguished lawyers in Tennessee, is dead. For some months prior to his death Colonel Young had been receiving instructions In the Catholic faith through the Dominican Fathers of St. Peter's Church. He was baptised and received into the Church by Eev. Father Meagher, O.P. A couple of days before his death he received the last sacraments of the Church from Rev Father Lockinger, O.P.

On Monday, September 25, at St. Joseph's Church, 50 Avenue Hoohe, Miss Whitcombe, a well-known member of American society in the French capital, was received into the Church by Very Rev Father Osmond Cooke, Superior of the Passionists. In a few days' after Miss Russell Hancock and Miss Ethel Bannister made their profession of faith and were baptised by the Rev. Father Edward Lernaitre, C.P., in the same ohurch. Later on Mrs Walter Ellii, of San Francisco, a recent convert, together with the above-mentioned ladies, were confirmed by the Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris in his private chapel.