DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 32, 10 August 1905, Page 19

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.) August 7.

There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the Cat/hod ral from Uit2;h Mass until Vespers on Sunday. After the sermon, preached by the Rev. Father O'Connell, there was the usual procession, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The congregation was exceedingly large. Dr. Grifaben, son of Mr. Gribben, late of Hokitika, who is an ex-pupil of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, and who subsequently went through a distinguished course at medical colleges in the old country, making mental diseases a specialty, has received the appointment of assistant medical attendant at Sunnyside lumThe Rev. .Father C'Conncll commences his mission of collecting for the Cathedral debt extension fund this week. He intends to thoroughly work the city at first, and reinstate the sixpence-a-week mode of contribution on a 'firm basis. Among the cheering an 3 practical expressions of sympathy at the commencement of his crusade was a letter from a Christchurch boy, who is now earning his livelihood elsewhere, stating that having noticed he (Father O'Corwiell) was about to undertake the work of collecting, he enclosed £5 from scanty earniags, with beet wishes for success. The Rev. Father O'Ccwuiell will subsequently visit the other parts of the diocese in the interests of his present mission.