DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 17, 25 April 1907, Page 15

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From Our own correspondent.) - > . April 22. His Lordship the Bistoop kf t for AsWburton, on Satur- \ day, and on Sunday morning solemnly blessed and for- ,' mally opened the new Catholic presbytery just completed h for the Very Rev. Dean O'Donnell. , , .- -. - . . ' The Rev. Father O'Connell, S.M., .left on last Thurs? : day for Westland . to resume Ms collecting missipn on , behalf of the Cathedral debt, extinction iund. He . eo-m-inences at Hokitika. - • ;.-' _„■•' The four days' bazaar,, held in the Akaroa, Oddfellows' Hall duilng Easter week, in aid of £h"e, -local ;, Convent of Mercy building fund, ' realised upwards of i £^00. During each 'evening a Jnusical entertainment was given by the scholars and friends. . \-- Most of the exhibits in the Prisons' Department Court at the Exhibition, the. work of various prisons in the Colony, have been purchased -by private individuals. The beautiful model of the Christchurch Catbolic-Cathe-clral (executed from candle wax -by a^- prisoner .at , Wai-pa) has been secured by his Lordship. Bishop After Mass at the Sacred Heart Church. Addington, "on last Sunday morning week, 'the congregation adjourned to the schoolroom to participate in a presentation to two of the most devoted young ladies of the parish— Misses Nora and Maggie Hickev— in .appreciation of many services rendered in connection with the church and school, and as a memento of their approaching marriage. -Mr. H. Sloan presided, and the Rev. Father Peoples, S.M., voiced the sentiments of all present. In appropriate terms he referred to the good will and enthusiasm always manifested by the Misses Hickey in any good work wherein this portion of the j-arish was interested. He then presented Miss Nora with a silver teapot and water-jus:, and Mss Maggie with a silver teapot, each suitably inscribed, on behalf of the Altar Society. Mr. L. Hicley made suitable acknowledgment on behalf of his sisters.