ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 5 December 1907, Page 13

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

4 (From our own correspondent.) November 30. ' The quarterly" theological conference of the Wellington Deanery was held at Otaki on Wednesday. The Very Rev. Dean John McKenna presided. About seventeen priests were present. The Very Rev. Father Clune, C.SS.R., returned from the south during the week. Mast of the Fathers of the Order are expected to be at the Monastery next week, prior to their leaving for various parts of the. Dominion to conduct retreats. *• At Meanee on to-morrow his Grace the Archbishop' will ordain to the "priesthood the Rev. — Hurley and the Rev. — Henry. A number of other - candidates are to receive minor orders-r The Very Rev. Father Keogh, . of St. Patrick's College, left during the week to be present at the ceremonies. The many friends qf Mr. Aloysius .Mac Donald, the popular manager of the Bank of New South Wales, and one of .our most practical Catholic laymen, will regret kto hear that he is dangerously ill. His -son, the Rev. Father Mac Donald, arrived from Sydney during the week -to-.be present with his father. Arrong the latest of -our people to return home from .their sojourn abroad are Mr! arid Mrs.' Martin Kennedy -and family, and Mrs.-H. Sullivan', her son, and daughter. Mr. Kennedy has brought with him a ' fine motor car, in which he did some enjoyable journeys in Ireland. • The latest -workers for Mother Auber't are the Post and Telegraph Rifles, under Captain Morris. They were assigned the task of shifting a large number of posts which were quickly despatched to their destination. Other members of the Postal service also lent assistance. The splendid" work in the interests of the development of musical art by the Sisters of the Hill street convent was illustrated by the concert given before a large audience in the concert room of the Town Hall on Tuesday evening. All the vocalists were pupils •of the convent school, but it must riot supposed that " it was an infants' class which faced the audience. The vocalists were all ' grown up 'and.- there were noticed several voices—soprano, mezzo-soprano, ' and contralto— which would add charm and beauty to any choir music sacred or secular, that could be presented. A fine example of their four-part singing 1 was found "particularly in Gotfnod's chorus 'Oh sing, to God.' At times " in this remarkable musical structure one could' easily imagine the lower parts were being -taken by tenors and basses, for the harmony was full and sonorous, and al-. though the singers had not the guidance of a conducf +tvt v \ was irre Proacha,-ble, and the rhythm of the beautiful theme evenly maintained. The vocal wi?i sts M Were Q+ Mlsse s Maxwell, Violet Lamacroft, Eileen Spf ' ™ a T, S 2r or^ McEnroe ' °live Moore, Agnes Seforrison Nn «f tm ' + Denhalil ' Sweeney, - and * Frances -Morrison. In almost every instance encores were granwJl tw a ° r i °, ? the , Twm X ladies w *en re&lled bowed then acknowledgments. Miss Evatt for- her playing of two of Greig's pianoforte pieces, ''Paplllo. ' ThP ni^of rt r£ rinteiUpS '' was vociferously complimented. were given to some of the numbers by Mr. E Montague and Miss Mona Montague respectively.