Wanganul

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

Wanganul

(From our own correspondent.)

November 29-. • Mr, Jm!."^ I ', PloWer Shower Mrs. De'mpsey and Mrs. and Miss Neylon were prize-winners. . In order to' provide 'funds for the payment r of in ■ foTo^structhf. S6S 6 !***? ldaftS ° r and A^ by a TOto^rrf fhp TV 10 * tramw /y s - -recently! sanctioned - &V a vote of the ratepayers, the Borough Council of

ganui Garrison), was £430 16s Bd, of which £415 16s 9d "was paid for the. new instruments recently-pur-chased. - It is pleasing " to know that the instruments * were admitted into the Dominion "free, thanks- in a large measure, to the efforts of Colonel Watt and Mr. J. T. Hogan, M.H.R. ' 'Master Haydn Beck, of Wanganui," who is. only eight years of age, has secured senior honors in violin playing- at the Trinity, College examinations. It ■is the in- 1 tention of his father to send him ito Europe for ther" .training, and in order to provide funds for 'this purpose concerts will "be held in the leading towns of the Dominion. The first "was held on , Friday, when Master Beck astonished the large audience present by his artistic playing, especially in his ' Allegro vivace ' and ' Carnival de, Venice.' He was greeted with a stprm of applause at each of his appearances on the stage. The Irish Rifles, which are now being resuscitated, were, made the subject ol' the Very Rev. De\a Grogan's and- Rev. Father Mahony's- remarks at the difier- • ent Masses last Sunday, when they appealed, to Catholic young men of the district to become members of the local Irish Rifles Volunteer Corps, which was the only one now existing in the Dominion. They urged the parents to recommend their sons to join this corps in preference to" other local ..bodies of volunteers, thus making it as it should be a purely Catholic corps. It is .pleasing to hear that the appeal has been responded to. ' " ' . . . -