Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, 17 August 1911, Page 1574

Wanganui

(From our own correspondent.)

August 11.

There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from the last Mass on Sunday, the 6th inst., until Vespers, after which there was - the usual monthly procession.

I am informed that the leases of the remaining frontages of the Catholic property in Victoria Avenue, with the exception of those of the church and the convent, will be disposed of by public auction on the 23rd inst.

I regret to have to report the death, at the age of twenty-six years, in the Wanganui Public Hospital, of Mr. Edward Brady, brother of Mr. J. Brady of this town. Deceased, who was of a bright and cheery disposition, had been an invalid for three years, and bore his trying illness with great fortitude. The burial took place at Waverley on the 11th inst. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. and Miss Brady.—R.l.P.

The Marist Brothers' School (says the Wanganui Chronicle) has recently fallen into line with the other schools of the town in the formation of a cadet corps. They were officially inspected on Thursday morning, August 10, by Major Aitken, officer commanding local school cadet battalion. This'being the first inspection of the corps, they paraded in full strength under Captain Frank J. Bourke, the Major expressing great surprise and satisfaction at the capable manner in which the boys, had. shaped at drill, which, considering that the corps had only been formed a few weeks, spoke volumes for the painstaking efforts of their commander. The Brother Superior (Bro. Basil) thanked Major Aitken for his kind and encouraging remarks, also Captain Bourke for his trouble in organising the corps. He trusted that the boys would continue to excel at their military duties, and would always be a credit to = the battalion and the school to which they belonged.