Waihi

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 25, 22 June 1905, Page 19

Waihi

(From our own correspondent.) ... , Jujie 12. initiations are the order at each meeting of the Hibernian Society, and the society now numbers over 60 members. A syllabus is now drawn up for a few meeting nights, ana after closing the ordinary business most enjoyable evenings are spent, either musically or in games, or debates. ' On Whit Sunday the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly of the Thames, assisted the Very Rev. Father Brodie at St. Joseph's Church, Waihi. At the half-past seven and nine t'clcck Masses large numbers received Holy Communion, and members of the Hibernian Society attending in regalia at nine o'clock. 'In the evening the sermon was preached by the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly who toKl his hearers of what great pleasure it gave him to see the way his hearers had responded to the exhortation of their worthy pastor to fulfil their Easter duties. In speaking of the buildings, he said that what he noticed as a want when he was herd two years ago was* now an accomplished fact, viz a commodiaus presbytery. He was pleased to see priest ana reoi le worUng so well together.