NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 20 March 1902, Page 15

NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL

1^ ot a little of the credit for the success attending the Catholic Carnival held recently in Masterton (says the Wairarapa Star} is due to the secretary, Mr. B. J. Dolan. This gentleman spared neither time nor energy in his efforts to make the bazaar the event of the century. He was here, there, and everywhere, and always at the right place at the right time. Without him the Carnival would probably have lacked much of its completeness in detail We congratulate the Very Rev. Dean McKenna in having secured as secretary a gentleman so eminently fitted for the position. Mr P. Hally, who contested the Caversham seat at the late ?^'°. D.D '. waß on Frid ay night presented with a purse of sovereigns (£102) in recogition of the manly way in which he had conducted the contest as a Liberal-Labor candidate. In accounting for his defeat Mr Hally paid that one of the reasons was that he was a Catholic. Personal insults bad been offered to him and to every member of that denomination throughout the Colony by an irresponsible person and now that the assertions had been proved to be unfounded, Mr Earnsbaw, if a man, should at once acknowledge he had made a mistake. He trusted the election would be the last one to be fought on purely sectarian lines. He thanked his friends and supporters j for the treatment they had given him from the first night of his appearance. He had also to thank those who were more intimately connected with him in the contest. He had never met a more sincere set of men than the young men in South Dunedin who had rallied round him during the contest. tw t T i he , lasfc meefcin S of tQ e Ashburton Catholic Literary Society Mr. W. Soal presided. Three new members were elected A eentleinan intimated his intention of offering a prize for the person who nominated most members in the course of the ensuing- six months, and the offer was gratefully accepted. The programme for the evening, which took the form a < Spelling bee ' (says the Mail) was a novelty for the Society, and consequently great interest was manifested in the proceedings, more especially as the Key. Dr. Kennedy had generously contributed a handsome trophy tor the best speller. All preeent competed in the spelling The competitors were gradually passed out, all being eventually disqualified with the exception of Mr. D. Moriarty, who thus secured nrst honors and also the trophy. A vote of thanks having been passed to the Rev. Dr. Kennedy and Mr. A. McSherry, who acted in the capacity of examiners, a very instructive evening terminated in the usual manner.