Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 30, 27 July 1905, Page 5

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.)

July 24. The Timaru Marist Brothers' football team speak in the highest terms of the hospitality extended to them during their visit to Christchurch last week for the annual football match.

The last quarter's balance sheet of the local fo,ranch of the Hibernian Society was, from a financial point of view, one of the best yet presented, showing a remarkable increase in the sick and funeral fund.

The newly-established branch of the St. Vincent dv Paul Society is making solid progress both in numbers and scope of work. The members celebrated their patronal feast on Sunday morning by approaching the/ Holy Table in a body at the 7.30 o'clock Mass.

His Worship the Mayor, although in the midst of an exciting contest over the Drainaige Bill, has* found time to cater for the aesthetic requirements of the burgesses by laying out and presentins; to the town an a\enue on the Town Belt, which will be henceforth Known as ' Craigie's Avenue.'

The report of the Government Inspectors on the examinations recently held in our schools makes very satisfactory reading, as both boys' and girls' schopls e< en did better than in preceding years, and received special mention for their order, discipline, and good moral tcne. The boys in the sixth standard did particularly well, out of 15 presented 10 securing proficiency, three competency, and one other passed in all the subjects he took.