GREYMOUTH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 3 January 1907, Page 24

GREYMOUTH

' (From "bur own correspondent.) • December 27

,The billiard tournament, in connection with . - the Catholic' Club was concluded last Week and resulted.'as follows :— Mir. W. Hasaall, 1 ; Mr. W. Donovan; 2 ; Mr. Claud Simon 3. Forty-five members too°k- jpart in the tournament

Midnight Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick's on Christinas Eve by. the Very Rev. Dean Carew. Harnmerel's Mass (with the exception of the Credo -which was from Weber's composition) was sung. Miss,.Kemple played the organ accompaniments very creditably. -The conductor, Mr. R. Phillips, deserves -great praise for the finished manner in which the music ,was rendered. A very pleasing ceremony too.<> place at the St. Columba Club rooms last Wednesday evening, when the members assembled Jo say good-bye to., Mr. Olaud Simon, who is leaving- Greymouth to s take up his residence in -Weslport. 'Mr. Win: Duffy (vice-president), in presenting Mr. Simon with a handsome Gladstone bag suitably inscribed, referred to the loss sustained by the club by tho departure of Mr. Simon, who was one of its most valued members, and concluded—by wishing Mm every success -in his new home. Mr. Simon thanked the members for their useful present, which would always remind him of the happy days spent in the club rooms. Mr. Simon was also the. recipient of^ a handsome watch guard from his fellow employees in the vrieymouth Foundry.,