Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, 3 July 1913, Page 29

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) ; Jime 30. v Yesterday the devotion of the Forty Hours' Adoration was commenced at the eleven o'clock Mass. Rev. Father Gilbert, of St. Patrick's College, preached at that Mass and also in the evening. Rev. Father Farthing, of Oamaru, is also assisting at the exercises, which are being largely attended. • About twenty-five school children received First Communion at the nine o'clock Mass yesterday morning, when there was a large congregation of parents and friends. Afterwards the children were entertained at the customary breakfast in the girls' school. Rev. Fathers Murphy and Gilbert presided at this function. On Tuesday evening last the Rev. Mr. Hall, at the invitation of Very Rev. Dean Tubman, gave an address oh ' Home Rule ' to a crowded audience in the Catholic Hall, Craigio Avenue. Mr. W. Angland, Mayor of Timaru, presided, and the Very Rev. Dean occupied a seat on the platform.' At the conclusion of the eloquent and convincing address,- Mr. M. J. Doyle proposed, and Very Rev. Dean Tubman seconded, a hearty vote of thanks to the rev. lecturer, coupled with an expression of belief in the reasonableness, justice, and necessity of Home Rule for Ireland. This was carried with enthusiasm, and the meeting concluded with the singing of God Save Ireland,' the solo being taken by Mr. J. McKennah, and the audience voicing the chorus.

On Tuesday evening the girls’ school was filled to overflowing by the parishioners to do. honor to their popular pastor, Very Rev. Dean Tubman, whose feast was celebrated that day. Among those present besides the local clergy were the Rev. Father Aubry (Waimate) and Rev. Father Schaefer (St. Patrick’s College, Wellington), and the Marist Brothers. A choice musical programme opened the proceedings, those contributing being Mrs. Mangos and Miss Atkinson (pianoforte duet), Mrs. T. Lynch (song, ‘ Killarney ’), Miss Riordan (song, ‘Sunshine and rain’), and Mr. J. McKennah (song, ‘Anchored’). Miss E. Dennehy acted as accompanist. A feature of the function was the splendidly worded address to the Very Rev. Dean, which was prepared and ably read by Mr. T. Quinn! The various societies then presentee! the Dean with suitable mementoes—St. Anne’s Guild (Mrs. Mason), Altar Society (Mrs. Doyle), Children of Mary (Miss Venning), and Hibernians (Mr. T. Niall), each making their separate presentations. Very Rev. Dean Tubman, in his reply, sketched the history of the parish durling the past twenty years, and laid emphasis on his indebtedness for the successful state of Catholicity in the mother parish of South Canterbury to his saintly predecessors, the co-operation of his various assistants, the Catholic societies, and to the strong enthusiastic faith of the people. A choice supper was served. On the same afternoon the combined Catholic schools assembled in the girls school to congratulate the Dean on his feast. A well prepared programme of songs and drills was gone through, and Master Leo Brosnahan read in a clear and confident manner a suitable address, which he had prepared without assistance.