Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, 18 February 1915, Page 31

Timaru

, . • (From our own correspondent.) The Very Rev. Dean Smyth, S.M. (Provincial) was in Timaru for some days last week. There was a very large attendance at the lecture, which was given by Very Rev. Dean Regnault, S.M., in the Choral Hall on Monday evening last, on v his recent travels and experiences in Europe. The lecture proved a most Interesting one, and the Dean was warmly thanked for h s efforts to help along the relief fund, in South Canterbury. Rev. Father Quinn, S.M., is at present in Timaru collecting funds for the erection of a boarding-school for boys in Christchurch. At all the Masses yesterday he made an earnest appeal to the generosity of the people, and during the week he is to make a canvass of all the Catholic families in the parish. Arrangements are well in hand for the grand Irish national conceit, which is to be held here on the evening of St. Patricks Day. Besides the very best local talent, the services of several artists have been secured from other places. The tickets, which are already in circulation, arc selling freely, and everything points to a most successful gathering.