NEWMARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 7 August 1902, Page 5

NEWMARKET.

On Thursday, August 21 (writes a correspondent) the children attending St. Joseph's School, Newmarket, gave their beloved pastor, the Rev. J. P. Kehoe, a most cordial and affectionate reception, on the occasion of his first visit to the school after hia return from Sydney, where he had gone to undergo a very serious operation. The children eang very sweetly some appropriate verses of welcome, and afterwaidß presented him with a nice silver mounted umbrella, and a neat and artistically got-up ' spiritual bouquet.' Miss L. Philpot, in a neat little speech, made the presentation. The Rev. Father thanked the children and said it gave him the greatest Eleasure to be back once more among his devoted little ones, •uring his absence he had visited some of the leading schools in Sydney, but nowhere had he seen better behaved or more industrious

children than those of Newmarket. He said they had much to be grateful for in having the Sisters of St. Joseph for their teachers. He himself had much to thank them for, bo zealously did they assist him in every good work. He then exhorted the children to be faithful to their early trainiuer and when they come to manhood never to be ashamed of their faith, but like th-ir o-religionit'ta ' across the sea — to be Catholics first and statesmen afte rward-,-— the one was not iucompatible with the other for the ix-v >>i crirl who would be ashamed of his or her faith would never he ta>u '< tor anythin p. The children dihpi ri-ed d> eply impressed vvith the good i advice and highly delighted at weeing th« lr kind p;istor innougut them once more.