ROSS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 12, 21 March 1901, Page 6

ROSS.

(From our own correspondent)

Rev. Father Bogue is at present on his annual \Wit to his parishioners in South Wetland. During his abut nee Rev. Father Le Petit of Hokit/.ka and Rev. leather Malone, of Greymouth have kindly paid visits here. Dr. F. Kosetti, for the past seven years, surgeon-superintendent of the Totara Hospital, was on Wednesday evening lust presented with an illuminated address and a gold sovereign case as a mark of the ebteem in which he is held by the residents of Ross. The address was as follows . — ' We desire on your resigning the position of surgeon-superintendent of the Totara District Hospital to express our united approbation and esteem for the energetic, impartial, and satisfactory manner in which you have discharged the duties of your responsible position. We also wish to convey to you our appreciation of your high professional and private character, which during the past seven yearn, we have had ample opportunities of observing. In conclusion, we wish you every success and happiness in whatever sphere you may choose to direct your future energies.' The address •was signed by all the leading business men in the district, and was beautifully done on satin by the Sisters.

Dr. Rosetti is a good, practical Catholic, and was always to the lore in anything that pertained to the welfare of the parish.

As your Brunner correspondent has informed you his successor, Dr. A. T. Mcllroy, was the recipient of several nattering testimonials before leaving, and he has now taken up his reyidem c amongst us. And in this connection I hope our local choir will avail themselves of his services.

St. Patrick's School is now in full swing again after the holidays. One of the Sisters' pupils — Master Willie Knowles — was successful in passing the Junior Civil Service examination, and two of the Sisters' pupils also passed the preparatory examination in music held in Hokitika recently by the Trinity College examiner.

The Rev. Father Cooney's Ross friends, while sorry to hear that he has left the Count, are, nevertheless, gla 1 at his promotion to the charge of such an important parish as Lyttelton.