Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 14

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) May 4. Very Rev. Father Regnault is temporarily taking the place of Rev. Father Kerley, who has been transferred to Christchurch for a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. J. Skinner left Timaru last week to - commence business in Fairlie. ' Previous to her departure Mrs. Skinner was entertained at the convent by the. ladies of St. Ann's GuUd and the Altar Society, and given a memento to remind her of the good

work she had done as a member of* both societies. Mrs. Skinner has ialways been prominent in everything, .that tended to the advancement of the Church, ' and her departure from Timaru leaves ,-a gap that wilT v be difficult to fill. She was for many years a prominent memlbjar of the choir~""and here again it will tie hard' to replace her. The Redem.pitorist missions, gfLven, by Fathers Lowham and McDermott, commenced yesterday- (Sunday) weje)k, amd wild be concluded on Sunday next.. JThe Masses are attended by large congregations, and last night, when Father Lowham^ preached, the church "was crowded, and seats had to be provided outside themain entrance. The success of the mission must be most gratifying to the devoted missionaries and the local clergy. The children's mission concluded on Sunday afternoon. It had also served as a preparation for the First "Communion of about fifty children, who ap,proacbed the Holy Table at the nine o'clock Mass yesterday. The church was suitably decorated for the occasion, and after Mass the customary breakfast was provided in the girls' school.