Diocesan News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 29 November 1900, Page 5

Diocesan News.

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

(From our own correspondent.) November 24. The Rev. Father Goggan returned from Hawera on Friday. w * * Newtown Convent was privately blessed and opened on Wednesday morning by his Grace the Archbishop. The nuns have taken up their residence there. - Ar « h^ eacon Dev oy and Marist delegates arrived at Marseilles on tne 11th October, being four days overdue owing to the wreck of a cargo steamer in the Suez Canal. The Marist Chapter began on the 16 th October. His Grace Archbishop Redwood, accompanied by the Rev. H ather Amsworth, is at presentconduoting a mission at Petone They will continue their ministrations in the Hul' district until the end of the present month. The annual distribution of prizes at St. Patrick's College will take place on the 4th of December. The drama 'The Two Orphans,' which was recently so successfully produced by the students, is to be repeated on that evening. The midsummer vacation will begin on the following day. St. Patrick's College annual harbor excursion was held on Tuesday. Led by the band the students marched to the ferry wharf where the steamer Duchess was in readiness to convey them to Day's Bay. Beautiful weather was experienced and a most enjoyable day was spent. J ' J An impressive ceremony took place at St. Joseph's Church on Wednesday afternoon on the occasion of the reception of seven young ladies into the Order of the Sisters of Compassion. The young novices, attired in white muslin dresses with royal blue trimmings and veils and wreaths of passion flowers, formed in procession accompanied by their Superior and Mother-assistant. As the procession entered the church ' O Gloriosa ' was sung by the • O i. r *T> The ceremon y was performed by his Grace the Archbishop, with Rev. Father Herbert as master of ceremonies. The Very Rev Dean Martin, Rev. Fathers Holley, Ainaworth, and Mahoney were' also present in the sanctuary. Addressing the novices his Grace referred to the high calling and life of self-sacrifice to which they were about to devote themselves, showing the model they had in our Blessed Lady, whose Feast it was on that day— the Presentation

— aud hoping that their months of trial would be fruitful in securing them the grace to Uke th-ir vows at a future date. The church and sanctuary were neatly decorated with palms, ferns, and arum lilies by Misses O'Connor and Skerrett, and the combined choirs rendered the music under the oonductorahip of Mr. Oakes in an able manner. The names of the postulants were Misses Frances Moran (Sinter Mary Josephine). Mary Dillon (Sister Mary Baptiste), Jane Carr (Sister Mary Frances), Mary Casey (Sister Mary Vincent), Agnes Allen (Sister Mary Rosalie), Mary Kelly (Sister Mary Chanel), May Mulhohdud (^Sister Mary Eh/,<il>eih).