WESTPORT

New Zealand Tablet, 1 November 1906, Page 19

WESTPORT

.- (From our , ,owri^correspqndent".)v. . :, - • ' "'„" '„ - ■'"'-, October' 23 && f raC ? A r^i bi shop'" Redwood administered ' the -Sacrament- of Confirmation to- ninety candidates after Sfndlv n t aS X at , :£V^>ice's . Church, Westport, on ?™«f' P- Cto^ r 14 i "Prior to atlminastering- the Sacrament; his Grace gayev a clear, - for<Ji-ble, and eloquent address, in the coursjs of: which' ho explainW the meanSrSS < >l e a^C exhorted the children •tobe at all times true' to thciirCFaith, and to be always S to by m; At™ fif? "°^ cr M ass,. whieh- was celebrated .by his Chaco, Jifly- children received' their First -Communion, -ihe girls attired in^ white -with. Sf^ J<*K .{Jd^he boys wore whiS 7asTes Canice's^ool^oS??-^ rt ° OlC ; ?-s«**& -^ In the evening- theie wasja .crowSe^' congregation ■ t£~iSi S f ra ff del i^ ed - a most inf P re^rdSt|°oA -the life of- the -religious. His^^ace o^iri^eulokisihff%ne n 9 ble work of various I Orders " oF the Ohurcli Wd a .high tribute of praise to the Sisters of Mercy w'host , self-sacrificing labors ,in the cause of- charity In? °hl educational refinement arid advancement " of our chSdren had been practically demonstrated in" Westport hnii* + Su^i a7> , ?CV? C V? ber 21 ' the Archbishop ' preached bot-h at. the ; last, ftlass and. Vespers His ftraV-P accompanied .by pe^Ven. ; ,4iohpriest,Waishe pai^ vi&Rations, last,,. week to Dennistdn," Addison's Flat Char- \ e n° n f ' a S?,,? Ih f r pIaCCS in His ' Grace left .for Wellington on October 24 ' • "^ace