WANGANUI NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 26, 5 July 1923, Page 9

WANGANUI NOTES

(From our own' correspondent.) , June 21. The many friends of the McDonald family (Auckland) will be glad to hear that Miss Doris McDonald is now safely convalescent. Mr. and Mrs. D. McDonald and their two daughters came here on. a visit some weeks ago, and Doris became seriously ill and had to be hurried off to a private hospital. It was a very anxious time for everyone, but ’the invalid is getting on well now. As it will he some time before she is well enough to go home Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have taken a house, and intend to stay here for a few months. Mr. Mick Kennedy (Karioi), is also in hospital here, suffering from a very 'painful eye trouble. He too, however, is on the mend and is quite cheerful. The rain it rains, and rains, and rains again. So far we have had no Hood because we're hilly and porous. The water comes down all right, soaks in, gets aloft again somehow, and just comes down again. All the same, ours is a very nice climate and the doctors are kept very busy. Congratulations to Mr. Paul Verchaffelt whom we do not know, but have heard about, and read about too in some of the local classics. Good>wishes anyway. Confirmation here early in July, and a big class of candidates is being prepared for the great event. One more of the fast decreasing band of pioneers was the other, morning laid peacefully to rest in the Catholic Cemetery, in the person of Mrs. Mary Mahoney. Deceased landed in Auckland from Chilian (Ireland) in 1858, together with her brother, Richard Fleming, by the ship Cuducus, coming to Wanganui shortly after. She later married Mr. Patrick Mahoney, who for many years was employed at the local bank of New South Wales, under Managers Kirkpatrick, Preston, and King, later becoming proprietor of the Masonic Hotel. The late Mrs. Mahoney was a widow for over 42 years, bringing up a then young family to man and womanhood, and for the past seven years a great-grandmother. She was of a retiring, but most kind and charitable disposition, the many sympathatic condolences received by the bereaved family testifying to the esteem in which deceased was held by those who knew her. The Rev. Father Outtrim, who had attended her during her last brief illness, was celebrant of the Requiem Mass for deceased, and officiated at the graveside. The hymns sung by nuns and children during the Mass were most solemnly and devotionally rendered. The deceased’s family left to mourn their loss of a good mother are Messrs. IV. J. Mahoney (Hawera), T. M. Mahoney (Harapepe), P. A. Mahoney (Makirikiri), Mrs. David’ Gellatly (Wanganui), together with many other relatives and a large number of friends. —R.I.P. i