DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 23

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The parish schools in Dunedin and suburbs will reopen on- next Monday. .. ' _ The Very "Rev. Father Ryan, S.J., is conducing the retreat of the Children of Mary, South Doinedin. At the.. recent -medical examinations, Mr. J. P. Hastings, a former dux of the Christian ' Brothers' School, qualified for the degree, of M.B. and Ch.l3. The Schools' Relay Race at .the Inhibition grounds, Christchurch, on. Saturday, . proved a" walk-over for the Christian Brothers' ,boys, r Dunedin: - ' -*- Rev. Father -Leonard, C.P., preached on devotion^ to the^ Sacred Heart in St. Joseph's" Cathedral onSunday "evening. - .- - - -„_'■*. In-, 'the course of the. retreat for • ladies, given at the Sacred Heart Convent, Timaru, the Rev. Father O'Dwyer, S.J., strongly recommended the ' ' Tablet,' -which, he said, should be in every -Catholic household in the Colony. A meeting in connection with the schools' picnic' was held ,in -St. Joseph's Hall on Sunday evening, Rev. Father Cofley, ' Adm., presiding.. A. considerable amount of business was transacted, and committees in connection with the sports "were appointed. Miss Aileen O'Donnell, a . pupil of Rosary Convent, Oamaru, passed the solicitors' general knowledge and examinations, and Miss Irene" Osbournc, a- pupil of the Dominican Convent, Invercargili, passed the matriculation examination. , ._•;_. The following students of Holy -Cross College passed the recent matriculation examination : — James McMenamin (archdiocese of Wellington.), CyAl Molloy (diocese of Dunedin), William Skinner (diocese of Auckland). '.' ' . ,_ -- v •:| Five pupils of the Christian Brothers' School, Dunedin, were successful at the Civil Sorvioe examination held in December last. Of the six pupils presented, five passed, 'four being placed on^,the credit list.' '- 'i tie names in' order of merit are : Fabian Spain, George Albertson^Harold Salmon, Humphrey Mbynihan, and William Coughlan. ':"\ , Last week the_ following Australian ecclesiastics visited Dunedin on their way from Europe* by America: The Bishop of Anuidale (the Righ«t Rev. Dr. O'Connor)., the Bishop of Bathurst (the Kigiit Key.. . .Dr. Dunne), the Rev. Fathers, Shanahan and Marshall (of the diocese of . Ballarat), the Rev. Father O'Donohoe (diocese of JMaitland), the Rev. Father. O'Reilly (arch? diocese of Sydney), and the Rev. Father Dunne (diocese of Bathurst). On Friday- the party, with their host, the Bishop of Dunedin, paid a visit -to the College, Mosgiel, and -were much '-. impressed with all they saw there. They left .on Saturday for Auckland. The Rev. Father Cognet, S.M., left for Okato on the same morning, after a visit to the Southern Lakps. Father Leonard, C.P., (Sydney), left for the Lakes oh Monday morning, and Father O'Dwyer, S.J., returned to Melbourne by Hobart on the same_.day.