PALMERSTON NORTH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 18, 2 May 1907, Page 15

PALMERSTON NORTH

(From our own correspondent.)^., April' 28.Mrs. McAllister has been appointed organist* to St. Patrick's choir. The annual meeting of the choir takes place on Tuesday, May 7, after which it is intended to at once proceed with a series of sacred concerts. Councillor Essex defeated the sitting Mayor by 122 votes on Wednesday last, the polling, which was unusually heavy, being— Essex, 10iJ4 ; M. Cohen, 942 ; Hurley, The Children of Mary will hold a progressive euchre party in the Zealandia Hall on Wednesday, May 15, in aid of St. Patrick's libracy, which is under their control. The members of St. Patrick's choir entertained Mr. and Mrs. Russell and Miss Taylor at a social gathering in the parish school on Tuesday last. The ladies of the choir supplied the refreshments, and a pleasant evening was spent with speech and song. At an interval in the evening, the Rev. Father CostHlo, on behalf of the choir, presented Mrs. Russell with a silver-mounted travelling satchel, Mr. Russell with a smoker's companion, and Miss Taylor with a cut-glass silver-mounted toilet bottle, and in a few well-chosen remarks spoke of the- regret one and . all felt at losing three such useful members of the choir. Messrs. Hitchings (conductor), Handley, Higgins, and Dallow followed in a simitar strain.