ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, 11 September 1913, Page 24

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) September 5. lis Grace Archbshop O'Shea returned from the south on Thursday last. Next Thursday he leaves for the north. i. * Everything is well in hand for the. Newtown schools' social, which takes place at St. Anne's Hall on, Wednesday, September 10. , The Catholic Club held its half-yearly meeting on last Wednesday evening. There was a good attendance of members, and a large amount of business was put. through.

The Particular Council of St. Vincent-de Paul Society met last Friday evening, under the presidency of Bro. B. Ellis. Interesting reports from conferences of the circumscription were read. .Last Thursday evening a picture entertainment was given in His luajest.y's x'heatre, under the auspices of tne St. Vincent 'uo Paul Society (St. Patrick's Seamen's Conference), in aid oi the mnd for the erection of a Catholic seamen's social hail. There was an excellent attendance, and the committee, under the leadership of Messrs.- D. F. ivelly and A. Little, are deserving of the highest commendation for the laudable object they have undertaken. , The Rev: Father John A. Roche, of the archdiocese of Sydney, is at present on a health trip m Mew Zealand, and is spending a few weeks witn his relative, the Very Rev. Thomas Roche, C.SS.R., Superior of the Reuemptorist Order in Mew Zealand. Father J. Roche was the -celebrant of a Missa Cantata in St. Gerard's Church, on Sunday last, and in the evening, before a large congregation, delivered an eloquent discourse on devotion co the Blessed Virgin.