Hawera

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 14

Hawera

(From our own correspondent.) +w The Sisters' of' the Convent have decided to hold -t^eir annual concert on^Decemlyer .18. ~ •-. om Last Sunday the members of ther local -Hibernian Society received Holy Communion in a body. Hll)ernian We are shortly to lose another much" -respected resi<l»3nt from our pansihi in the person of Mr. T. O'Neill He h?l hl iJ amil 7f aYe bee *- in Hawera for s ome gears', and have always taken, a -prominent, interest in-Church work and they will be much missed by a very terge circle of 1 **16IVC1.S« . v -.

[ It has been decided to' hold a b&zaaf in -February next, and matters - are well forward: ' Stall, holders have been appointed and -there is every promise of a successful, issue. Mr.- and Mrs. McCulrhan'. are arranging, a euchre party for the- purpose of procuring some tables _ and chairs for use', at 'such functions. The new " Stations of the Cross, in the Hawera ' Church were erected by the following (donors:— Messrs Barny, O'Shea, Cullinan, M. J. Power, Kavanagh, Bart*

lett, Mesdames Dolan, Corcoran, Cohnan, Sutton and Misses Flynn. In the Manaia" Church the following is a list of -donors :— Messrs. McCarthy, Franklin, Shanahan Bolger, Saunders, Long, Mourie, M. Power, M'Phillips ■.Hilles, D. Oarroll, A. O'Donnell, Mrs. McCarthy and JMiss Aicher. - The Forty Hours' Adoocation was attended by very large .. numbers. The occasional preachers were:~Very Rev. Dean McKenna, Very Rev. Father Power and Rev . . Fathers Treacy, Mahony *nd O'Dwyer. Father Duffy was a>lso in attendance. As an outcome gf this year's "celebration, a branch of the "Eucharistic League, which promises to be very successful, is being started, in the parish. The parish priest who is . making a house-to- , house-canvass in the interests- of the League, informs me that ihe has already enrolled sixty, members, and has had so far only 'one refusal.