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age in which to provide for the children of soldiers who 19 had fallen in the Maori Wars. (1) Their efforts in this field vrere so successful that to-day they have tV'
20 ( 1 ) 11 re is a specimen of a Maori pupil; 11 'One of our native girls has returned to her tribe. She is eight·een, very modest, religious, and edifying in her conduct. She is very talented. After learnin~ to read and write her own language she was taught English, which she speaks nicely, but with a lisp. She reads and writes English well, went through with Arithmetic, and has a good idea geography. At examinations she was often asked to point out remarkable places on the rnap; her knowledge of the equator, zones, etc., would surprise you. iron, knit stoclcings, crotchet, n~alce dresses. She can wash, and bake bread, cut out She helped to malce a rochet for the bishop; can scrub a house and put it in order. is regarded with admiration· by all. thirty of her· country girls (in the Bush). go to her'. 1 ' As you may suppose, she She has a school of . Some Europeans As a result of Mother Cecilia's earnest entreaties Carlow Convent opened a novitiate for Auckland and from time to time sent out reinforcements. (2) In 1857 a band of five Sisters about to embark at Chelsea, were visited and encoUJX:lged by Cardinal Wiseman, who was deeply interested in New Zealand. (3) Of the next contingent which arrived in 1860, one member, Mother Bernard, the daughter of -------------------------------- 1. Ibid Page 615. 2. uLeaves from the Annals. 11 Vol. 11. p. 603. 3. Seventy-fifth Anniversary. 11 (Dr. Cleary) p. ·24.
Page 1 and 2: COHGl".?.EGATION OF OUR I,ADY OP Li
Page 3 and 4: 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS page 1. PREFACE
Page 5 and 6: BIBLIOGRAPHY. 4 1. PUBLICATIONS. 1.
Page 7 and 8: 6 5. PHAf,:PHLJ:TS. Bishop Cleary:
Page 9 and 10: 8 prestige and learning. She died w
Page 11 and 12: 10 from Pope Pius V111 a Rescript o
Page 13 and 14: 12 the siege of Mefeking. The Annal
Page 15 and 16: 14 on his return joul"ney from Euro
Page 17 and 18: 16 However, in the interests of his
Page 19: from which it could be exported. 18
Page 23 and 24: 22 century among the natives, teach
Page 25 and 26: 2Lj. '-'uropean and the natives in
Page 27 and 28: HOTHER CECILIA MAHER. 26
Page 29 and 30: 28 four years later, and with her o
Page 31 and 32: had taught as well as numbers of no
Page 33 and 34: 32 of the high standard of wo:r'k m
Page 35 and 36: 34 established st. Joseph's Orphana
Page 37 and 38: 36 who so loved the orphans. 1926.
Page 39 and 40: liiother M. 38 G::mzaga and I.lothe
Page 41 and 42: 39 G!lA.FVEH 1 'T. -·---- r; G ,_,
Page 43 and 44: more spac,ious class-roorr.sbecaJne
Page 45 and 46: 43 is a speciality with the pupils
Page 47 and 48: such as Street Days. 45 ST. Philome
Page 49 and 50: 47 fields. r.rother E. Bernard Redw
Page 51 and 52: 49 within the reach tr1e working cl
Page 53 and 54: 51 five years ago made Reefton' s n
Page 55 and 56: In (1) 1912 the O'Conor Home for th
Page 57 and 58: 55 franl(, unPeser'Ved tLough prude
Page 59 and 60: 57 11 ,,midst the acclamations of'
Page 61 and 62: Within the follovfing five years sc
Page 63 and 64: 61 beauties tlili Faith, of Scriptu
Page 65 and 66: 63 necessity ancl llO'Ii/ that tl1e
Page 67 and 68: 65 building was erected on the site
Page 69 and 70: house at tlle corner of l.iancheste
Page 71 and 72:
M1algamation until ill-health supe1
Page 73 and 74:
71 CHAPTER V1 . When the Hight Hev.
Page 75 and 76:
73 a c1aily attendance of 215. this
Page 77 and 78:
75 e there a convent and school, L1
Page 79 and 80:
ar'e mov fo:c·-,;e_rd con antly to
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79 CH.i\.PTER V11 . COlfCLUGIOJ.Y.
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81 and under the rule she then esta
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