DANNEVIRKE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 2, 10 January 1901, Page 5

DANNEVIRKE.

(From our own correspondent.)

January 3.

Mr P. Gleeson, of the Junction Hotel, has sold his property here and has taken his family to Auckland. Mr Gleeson has been a progressive townsman and he will be greatly missed. The Gleeson family have been a great help to the Catholic Church in this young district, and, as a matter of fact, they are a distinct loss to Dannevirke. In choir matters Mr Gleeson's sons were a host in themselves. Mr Gleeson deserves credit for the superior education he has given his ohildren, and it is satistisfactory to Bee that they are making good use of their opportunities. The ladies of the con* gregation did not let Mrs Gleeson leave without giving her a token of weir appreciation of the interest taken by her in Church matters, and on New Year's morning they presented her, through the Rev. Father Cahill, with the accompanying address : — ' We, the Catholic ladies of the Dannevirke parish, offer you on your departure this pledge of our gratitude and esteem. Mr Gleeson and you have been singularly generous* and devoted to the principles of faith and fatherland, not only in Dannevirke, but in Auckland, Napier, and Wellington. Your only daughter (now Mrs Treston), our dear friend, was always the very soul of our choir and a general favorite. Tou may well feel proud of your manly sons. We too are proud of them. To meet them is a pleasure to be remembered. With such varied accomplishments and such splendid opportunities they can scarcely fail to prove themselves worthy of the inspiring traditions of the great colleges of the sons of St. Ignatius and of this progressive Colony of New Zealand, and worthy also of the ancient name of Gleeson and the Land of the Celt. Accept our heartfelt wishes for your own and your family's welfare. May you delight in the successes of your sons, in the happiness of your daughter, and in the mutual enjoyment of that prosperity with which the Almighty has crowned your husband's labors. And may your old age be a foretaste of the peace of the blessed.' Mr M. Gleeson, on behalf of his mother, thanked the donors, and said the whole family would have very pleasant reflections of Dannevirke. They left next morning for Auckland. The address was greatly admired as a work of art, and was enolosed in a ease made of polished rimu. It was the work of Miss Flynn, of Hawera. a young lady who, in addition to many other accomplishments, has acquired quite a reputation in the art of painting. Owing to ill-health Mr Dan Hannan has sold his business and is booked for the Old Country. His many friends here wish him a pleasant voyage to the land of his birth and a safe return. The timber industry here is very brisk at present. The order list is heavy and the mills are running at high-pressure rate.