DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, 24 August 1911, Page 1631

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.) August 20. The boarding scholars of the Sacred Heart Convent High School were on Saturday last treated to an enjoyable outing to Rangiora. On arrival by train they found lunch, which was prepared by lady friends, ready for them in the Catholic schoolroom. On the Feast of the Assumption Masses were celebrated in- the Cathedral at 6, 7.30, and 9 o’clock, in the presence of good congregations. The various Masses at St. Mary’s Church, Manchester street, were also well attended. After Mass, celebrated in the convent chape! by the Very Rev. Dean Regnault, S.M. (Provincial), on last Wednesday morning, eight novices made their profession and nine Sisters received the habit as religious in the Order of Our Lady of the Missions. The Very Rev. Dean Regnault presided, and the Very Rev. Father Price, Adm., preached the occasional sermon. On last Tuesday morning (Feast of the - Assumption) at a Mass celebrated' at half-past eight in St. Joseph’s Church, Southbridge, by the Rev. Father Hanrahan, of the Cathedral, eighteen children (twelve boys and six girls) made their First Communion. After Mass, which was attended , by a large congregation, Father Hanrahan presented prayer-books to the children, the gift of Mr. T. Riordan, as souvenirs of the happy occasion. The Rev. Father O’Boyle, of the diocese of Kerry, who has been laboring in the archdiocese of San Francisco, was a passenger by the R.M.S. Matai to Wellington last week, and arrived in Christchurch on Sunday morning. Father O’Boyle is on a visit to the Dominion, and is the guest of the Very Rev. Father Price, Adm., at the Cathedral residence. It is his intention to go over to Westland to meet the • Rev. Father Creed, of Kumara, and Rev. Father O’Connor, Ross, both fellow-students.

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nr * August 22. ■ • ’ Mr. A. W. Woodward, the local secretary of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, has received the results of candidates who presented themselves at the examinations last May

in the rudiments of music. The only candidates were Miss Hannah Cartwright and Miss Ailis Molloy, and both gained passes with 87 and 67 points respectively i Miss Cartwright is a pupil of Miss K. Cartwright, and the latter received her tuition at the Dominican Convent.