DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 47, 22 November 1900, Page 18

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

In the list of successful candidates from St. DominickV College at the recent musical examination, which appeared in our last issue, the name of Miss Geraldine O'Connell was printed Miss Geraldine O'Connor. Mjbb O'Connell passed in the Higher Grade (pianoforte). The Rev. Father Coffey, who is at present collecting- in the country districts on behalf of the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage, South Dunedin. celebrated Masses at Queenstown and Arrowtown on Sunday last. He was to leave Queenstown for Skippers on on Tuesday. On next Sunday he is to celebrate Mass in Gar^ton and will collect there and Nokomai, and possibly at Nevis during the week. He expects to be back in Dunedin on the first, or at latest, the second Sunday in December.

An adjourned meeting of the Catholics of St. Joseph's Cathedral parish was held in St. Joseph's Hall on Sunday evening for the purpose of considering the report of two experts on the cause of the lateral movement which has been taking place in the towers of the cathedral for some time. The Right Rev. Dr. Verdon presided,

and there was only a moderate attendance, duo to the short notice and the inclement weather. His Lordship read the report of the experts— Messrs. Lawson and Hay— who made certain recommendations, which were approved of by Mr. Petre. It was eventually decided that the experth" recommendations be given effect to, and that the meeting stand adjourned until next Sunday evening, when a committee will be appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the carrying out of the work. Aa the matter requires immediate attention it is very necessary that it should be taken in hand at once, and it therefore behoves the parishioners to act without delay. It is to h P hnpfd that there will b.» a. representative meeting on Sunday night, when ways and means will have to be considered. Although there i« no immediate rtir.nr Pr to thp oathpdral, still it is well to act on the principle that ' a stitch in time waves nine,' and what now can be remedied at a small cost might, if allowed to continue, entail considerable expense. Hia Lordship the Bishop expects a full and representative gathering of the people of the cathedral parish at the meeting in St. Joseph's Hall on Sunday evening. J