DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 6, 8 February 1923, Page 31

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The Sisters of Mercy gratefully acknowledge a donation of £1 for St. Vincent’s Orphanage, from “Wcllwisher,” Invercargill. In observance of the Month’s Mind of the late Monsignor Coffey, there will be Solemn Requiem Mass at St. Joseph’s Cathedral on Tuesday next, the 13th inst., commencing at 9 a.m. There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph’s Cathedral from the eleven o’clock Mass on Sunday last. In the evening after Compline there were the devotions in connection with the men’s branch of the Sacred Heart Confraternity—the members being present in very large numbers. An impressive sermon was preached by Rev. Father More-O’Ferrall, S.M., who afterwards carried the Sacred Host in the procession, and officiated at Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, Revs. M. Spillane and F. Marlow being deacon and subdeacon respectively. His Lordship Dr. Whyte, Bishop of Dunedin; leaves Wellington to-morrow (Friday) by the Ulimaroa for Sydney en route to Rome. Rev. Brother C. Marlow, of the Christian Brothers, St. Kevin’s, Melbourne, who spent his Christmas vacation with his parents (Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Marlow, of Musselburgh, Dunedin) and in visiting his relatives, was a passenger by the Moeraki on Monday, on his return to the Victorian capital. ST. DOMINIC’S COLLEGE, DUNEDIN. The following successes at various public examinations were gained by pupils of St. Dominic’s; —November examinations of University of New Zealand: First section 8.A., Katherine Bourke, French and Latin; Mary Lynch, French and philosophy (exempted students). Teachers’ examinations: Class D, M. Dow Mall and M. Lynch ; partial pass, W. Kaveney; two groups, K. Bourke and M. Kennedy; one group, J. Sorenson. Matriculation, Solicitors’ General Knowledge, and Medical Preliminary: Katherine Hickey, Josephine O’Neill, Roma Reilly. Matriculation : Winifred Lauren,'Sheila Todd; partial pass, Mary Phelan, Gonza Shiel; completed partial pass (M.S.P.), Mona Kennedy. Public Service entrance examination: Kathleen Hewes (credit list), Agnes Clark, Nina Hardy, Nora McTamney, Margaret Hanley, Mary Piper, Grace Beath; intermediate; Edna Crowley, Margaret Ford, Noreen Jones, Kathleen Mackenzie, Ada Sligo; junior .national scholarship, ; Mabel

Rice. Miss Doris Roche Avon the prize for Irish , essay donated by the Dunedin Irish Society. ST. PHILOMENA’S COLLEGE, SOUTH DUNEDIN. All the students entered for the public examinations in December by the Sisters of Mercy, St. Philomena’s College, South Dunedin, Avere successful. Following are the results:University of N.Z. Matriculation and Solicitors’ General Knowledge: Misses Mary Poppehvell, Mary Ann Garr, and Margaret M. Faulks; senior free place, Miss Monica Delany; intermediate, Miss Kathleen Phelan; junior national scholarship, Miss Annie MacGregor.