DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 18 June 1903, Page 6

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.)

June 15

The Sacramrnt of Confirmation is to be administered by his Lordship the Bishop at St. Agnes's Church, Halswell, on Sunday, June 28. The new church at Makikihi, recently opened by his Lordship the Bishop, is dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas.

His Lordship the Bishop is at present on an episcopal visitation to Akaroa, and on Sunday administered the Sacrament of Confirmation in St. Patrick's Church.

An entertainment in honor of the feast day of his Lordship the Bishop is arranged by the Catholic Club for Thursday, June 25. The surplus accruing will bo handed over to the school funds. The festival of Corpus Christi, patronal feast of tho Pro-Cathedral , was observed on Sunday with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from High Mass funtil Vespers, after which there was a procession, followed by Benediction. The feast of St. John the Baptist, patronal feast of the diocese, and also of his Lordship the Bishop, is to be solemnised by a triduum. An introductory sermon is to be preached on next Sunday at Vespers, and on the three following evenings special preachers are to occupy the pulpit in the I'ro-Cathedi al. In the published account of experiences in quarantine by a paswnger by the Gracchus it is stated that the Europeans detainlnl on Quail Island during the recent smallpox scare formed a separate mess and were attended to, and waited on by, the Lascar cooks and stewards, who are Catholics from (ioa. The sailors and (iremen, who are Mohammedans, had their own quarters and messes. His Lordship the Bishop presided at an executive committee meeting of the ' Polyrama ' last Thuisday evening, when the principal business transacted was tho allotment of stalls, which resulted as follows : England, Me-sdames .1 C. Chase and M. O'Brien ; Ireland, Mrs Hine ; Scotland, Mesdames Scrimgeour and G. Dobbs, France (Halswell and Addington), Mrs. G Harper and Miss McCarthy : Spain. Mrs Stratz and Miss Kearnev ; Ancient Rome*, Mesdames G. and R. Hay ward : Ancient Greece, Mrs. P. Burke and Mrs Bryant : Japan, Misses White ; Fairy, Children of Mary. Books of art union tickets are now being issued. Ihe meeting was well attended. .