ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON (From our own correspondent.) June 3.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 23, 8 June 1905, Page 5

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON (From our own correspondent.) June 3.

.The members of the Catholic Young Men's Club have been .very busy lately in making their club rooms more comfortable for the winter months. A quantity of new furniture has been procured, and the hall now presents a very cosy appearance. The local Hibernians have arranged for a general Communion at St Mary of the Angels' Church, Boulcott street, next Sunday, after which they will take •breakfast together at Carroll's Refreshment Rooms, Willis street. His Grace the Archbishop has notified his intention to be present. I am pleased to report that 'the father of Messrs. J. W. and J. J. Callaghan, well known in Catholic" circles here, has made a fairly satisfactory recovery from the paralytic stroke that he recently received in Sydney. He has, however, had to retire from active duty as a teacher in the New South Wales service, with which ne was so long and so honorably connected. ' The Wellington South parish has grown to such an extent that the church accommodation is once more found insufficient. At a meeting on Sunday evening to consider the question, it was decided to arrange for further seating accommodation by extending the present building at a cost of about £130. The building of a new presbytery is also being considered as an urgent matter. On Monday evening the members of the Catholic Young Mefo's Literary Society held their usual meeting in St. Patrick's Hall. The subject for debate was the ' Abolition of Party Government,' in favor of which a most convincing speech was delivered by Mr. S. J. Moran. After an interesting discussion a verdict was obtained in favor of the abolition of the Party Government system. The Nev/town Hibernian Society has purchased a set of very fine regalia. Each sash is enclosed in a neat portable case, an idea that should recommend itself to the other societies in the Colony. The branch will hold its second annual social in the Victoria Hall on Wednesday evening next. At its last meeting Bro. R. W. Collins was elpcted to the office of vice-president in the place of Bro. J. J. Casey, who has taken over the duties of secretary, owing to the resignation, through pressure of other business, of Bro. E. Fitegibbon. The usual monthly meeting of the so-called Council of Churches was held on Monday evening, at which the following resolution of interest to your readers was passed : ' Tnat this Council, in view of the fact that it is not uncommon for the children of Protestants to be sent to Roman Catholic schools, would direct the attention of parents to the undesirableness of the practice, its indirect result heing that an appreciable proportion of children so educated arc brought under influences which cause them in after years to become members of I'he Church of Rome.' If many of our oeople were to watch the names that figure in connection with these periodical resolutions, they would probably feel less inclined to associate with such gentlemen in other connections.