Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, 25 October 1906, Page 15

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.)

October 22. St. Anne's Guild, a society of the matrons of the parish, under the presidency of Mrs. Dennehy, held a sale of work in the girls' school on last Thursday afternoon. The attendance was good, and the business done more than satisfied the anticipations of the promoters.

St. Mary's branch of the Hibernian Society held ~\ its quarterly Communion at the nine o'clock Mass yesterday. There was a fair attendance. Rev. ( Father a Bowden, M.'A., officiated and preached an instructive ' sermon from the Gospel of the day.

Mr. E. G. Kerr, one of the most widely known and respected men in , the district, died atr his residence last Tuesday morning, and-was interred on Thursday afternoon. The funeral cortege was a very large one. The deceased gentleman had at one time taken a leading part in all local affairs ; he was proprietor of the ' Timaru Herald ' till ' his decease, • under his * direction its columns. were never disfigured by sectarian influence.

■* At the musical-- examinations held in connection with , Trinity College last week, the Catholic teachers met with their usual success, as may be sgen from the following list : Pianoforte : Professional division— Mina Ward (aged sixteen yeais) associate pianist ; Mabel G. Porter, certificated pianist (Mis. N. Mangos V. Intermediate— E. Wade (Mr.D. Clarke). Junior— G- M Albert- (Miss. E., Dennehy). Preparatory— D.. Straohan (Miss E. Fitzgerald), M. Roulston, and E. Mcßride (Miss E. Twomey). Ta/cing" Miss Ward's age into consideration, her achievement is a brilliant one", and re- - dounds to ,the credit both of teacher and pupil