ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 11 January 1906, Page 3

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.)

January 6.

Very Rev. Dean McKenna, after closing a successful bazaar in New Plymouth, is in Wellington for a few days' rest. Rev. Father Murray, C.SS.R., is to conduct the annual retreat of the priests of the archdiocese, which begins at St. Patrick's College on February 7. Mr. A. H. Casey, chairman of the Wellington C.V.M. Club and a member of the federated executive, successfully established during the holidays a branch club in New Plymouth. The Rector of St. Ignatius' College, Rivcrview, Sydney (Rev. Father Gartlan), passed through Wellington last Wednesday on his way to the West Coast, where he intends preaching a retreat to the Sisters'of Mercy at the Westpor-t Convent. A cottage chapel has been opened by the Rector of St. Patrick's College (Very Rev. Father Keogh) at Rona Bay, a popular resort across the harbor. No fewer than fifty persons attended Mass on Uiristmas Day. The Sisters of Compassion were the glad recipients of the amount of £22 8s 3d, being one-half of the net proceeds of the political debate between Messrs. Fisher and O'Regan during the election for the Wellington Central Seat. c A very nice property has been acquired in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and it is hoped shortly to build a church there. The electric tramway rails are being laid, and as soon as the trams run there will be great increase of population in this elevated suburb. The church when built will be on the highest situation in pt around Wellington. This morning, in the presence of a number of relatives and friends, Miss Herring (Palmerston North) and Miss T. Rowe (Wellington) made their religious profession, Misses Blake and A. McDonald (Wellington) and Miss Minogue (Palmerston North) were received into the Sisterhood of Mercy by his Grace Archbishop Redwood at the Sisters of Mercy's chapel in Hill street.