ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 11, 14 March 1901, Page 5

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

(From our own correspondent.) March 9. Bis Grace Archbishop Redwood has been the victim of an attack of rheumatism and is spending some time at Rotorua. The addition of a number of Siater Agneß's pupils just made to the Sacred Heart Church choir, Thorndon, should prove a great acquisition to that body. The Very Rev. Father Keogh, rector of St. Patrick's College, will sing High Mass on St. Patrick's Day at St. Joseph's Church, Buokle street, and will preach in the evening. The last mail brought news of the Yen. Archdeacon Devoy, Provincial, from Dublin. At the time of writing he was in excellent health. Jsaßev. Father S. Mahony, of St. Patrick's College, is to replace Father Ainsworth in the work of accompanying his Grace for the purpose of preaching missions and collecting throughout the archdiocese for the new Cathedral. Miss Kate Connell, one of Sister Agnes's most promising pupils, is touring New Zealand with a concert company of her own prior to her departure for Europe. A farewell concert at the Opera House is to be given next Thursday evening. She has met with a warm reoeption in the northern towns, where she has had most successful concerts. Given good weather on Saturday week there should be a good attendance on the Basin Reserve at the sports to be held by the St. Patrick's Day Celebration Committee. Splendid entries have been reoeived for the different events. A valuable cup, presented by Mr. Payne, a well-known oitizen, is to be added to the list of trophies to be competed for. The Garrison Band has been engaged for the day. In the evening a national concert for which some of Wellington's best talent has been engaged will be given in the Opera House. On Saturday last three of the Marist Brothers were making oxygen for experimental purposes when an explosion occurred, resulting in their being thrown to the ground and more or less injured. Brother Alfred, whose injuries are more severe, was burned about the faoe and his left eye severely injured. Brother ▲iden reoeived an ugly wound on die arm, pieoes of the retort being blown into the flesh above the elbow, and Brother Borgia was

rendered temporarily deaf. Dr. Collins was in attendance in a few minutes after the accident happened. He was very much exercised leßt Brother Alfred would lose his Bight, but is now satisfied that no permanent injury will result. It will be fully a month before Brother Alfred will be able to leave his room. The others, Brothers Aiden and Borgia, are about their work as usual. On Monday last the marriage of Miss Isabel Poll, eldest daughter of Mr. G. Poll, of Thorndon, to Mr. Wilfred Scale, eldest son of Mr. William Scale, of Collingwood, took place. The Rev. Father Holley performed the ceremony. Owing to a late bereavement in the bride's family the wedding was very quiet. The bride was attired in a silver-grey costume trimmed with white silk, and wan attended hy her sister, Mi oD T>hpl Pr.ll who wore white. Mr. Medcalf acted as best man, and the bride was given away by her brother, Mr. C. Pull. The honeymoon i" being spent in the Wairarapa district. The reception of Miss Isabel Keenan, of Auckland, took place in St. Mary's Convent chapel last Sunday afternoon. The ceremony was performed by Very Rev. Father Lewis, V.G., assisted by Rev. Father Holley. Miss Keenan's train-bearers were Misses Harnett and Bunny. Very Rev. Father Lewis, addressing the postulant, took for his text, ' If thou will be perfect, sell what thou hast, give to the poor, and come follow Me.' He said these words were addressed to the young man in the Gospel by our Divine Saviour and on this occasion could be applied to one about to become a religious, the spouse of Jesus Christ, and spoke of the great grace bestowed on her destined to so high a calling. Concluding, he congratulated the postulant, summarising the words of St. Bernard, who said a religious lives more purely, falls more rarely, rises more quickly, advances cautiously, rests more calmly, dies more confidently, and is rewarded more munificently than they to whom the graoe of a vocation is not given. The young novice's name in religion is Sister Mary Agatha. The friends and relations were entertained at the convent after the ceremony. The Rev. Father Kreymborg, from Taupo, is at present in Wellington on business connected with an educational matter, the conduot of which appears to cover a grave injustice to Catholic Maori children. The late Hon. McLean bequeathed a scholarship at Te Ante College to Maori boys, and a Cttholic in Father Kreymborg's district was this year the successful candidate. At the college mentioned which, by the way, is a purely denominational institution, in no way connected with the Sta'e, students, besides attending usual Church of England services held there, are, I am informed, compelled to study a course of Anglican doctrine, and for this reason Father Kreymborg endeavored, unsuccessfully, I regret, to have the scholarship transferred to St. Patrick's College, so that the boy might receive the benefit of instruction in the faith he professes. The Government annually makes grants in aid, about £20 each I believe, towards the higher education of native boys showing a Bpecial aptitude, and Father Kreymborg naturally expected that such a grant would in this case be available to a boy who by public examination has proved himself especially worthy of such a concession. In this, also, he has been disappointed. Further efforts on his behalf are being made, but in any case the boy's parents are decided that he shall attend St. Patrick's College, where he began studies this week.