ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 13

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

-' (From our own correspondent.) February IG. The Rev. Father Kimbell leaves on. Sunday for Groymouth.. , . The Rev. Fathers O'Reilly, Graham, and Bartley, of St. Patrick's College, have passed the first section of the degree of Bachelor of Arts. ' • " The members of the United Irish League will entertain Mr. Martin Kennedy." on Thursday next, prior to his departure on a visit to Ireland. The prizes in connection with • a small art union . held by the Sisters of Mercy, Wellington South, in aid of the convent altar, were won by Mrs. North, of Kilbirnie, and G. W. O'Sullivan, of Blenheim. Prior to his entering St. Patrick's College to be- • gin his studies for the priesthood, Mr. J. Campbell, who has been closely connected with church services .at Wellington South, received a presentation from the members of the Altar Society. The presentation, was made- by the Rev. Father Ainsworth, S.M. - Miss Slowey, 8.A.,_0J _.W.estpor_t, has obtained her M.A. with second class honors in- chemistry. • Miss Slowey'® university, has been a particularly bright one, and to win second class honors in a paper set and examined by such an eminent and exacting man of * science as Sir" William Ramsay is indeed a fine performance. - v The Rev. Thomas Gilbert is to be ordained priest at the nine o'clock Mass to-morrow in the Sacred Heart Basilica. Rev. T. Gilbert won a St. Patrick's (Allege scholarship when a pupil of the Kumara convent school. He spent the usual period" at the college and the Meanee Seminary, and then joined, the" teaching staff of his Alma , Mater. -At the local University College last year he gained splendid results.