SOUTHLAND NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 8, 21 February 1901, Page 19

SOUTHLAND NEWS NOTES.

(From our own correspondent.) The Wyndham Cat'iolic Literary Society's social proved a great success. Ihe hall wa- crowded, people of all denominations being prebent, which is a hippy sign of the society's popularity and the community to whica v belongs. Mr. D. Jones discharged the duties of chairman in a praiseworthy manner, and a varied programme was dispos d of. in the couiae of a few remarks on the benefits of a literary a jciety and its usefulness, the Rev, Father O'Donuell, Gore, refuted in strong terms the unwarranted reflection cast on the Joyalty of a certain school by Mr McNab, M.H.R,at Edendale, duly reported in the Press and interpreted to refer to the convent school at Gore. H?(Mr, McNab) said he had not seen the flag hoisted half-mast on th j Quee i'h death. Father O'Donnell said the flag was ceitainly so hoisted, anl he was surprit-ed that Mr McNab should go to the trouble of attempting to convey such a wrong and untruthful impnss on. He also remarked that the school was a private one, aud he would not allow insults to be

hurled at it by Mr. McNab or anybody else. The rev. gentleman's remarks were received with applause by the assemblage. The Bluff haa been going ahead by leaps and bounds of late years. Palatial building are replacing those of an early date, dpsign, and structure, and business places have been enlarged to m^et the expansion of trade. Waikaia residents will regret to hear of the demise of Mr. W. Skene, squatter, Queensland, and formerly of the firm of and Haast, Waikaia. It is publicly notified that the people of Gore are to meet "hortly f o <\<>c-\<]a whprhpr a monument or memorial be erected to the memory of the soldiers who fell in South Africa, but t>o iar no Gorcitc ha a been k'llod, nor pvpn wounded Mr. Hay, of Dunedin. has assumed office of Commissioner of Lands for Southland, and being an old resident of this province, he is likely to give satisfaction to the public and the department.