AUCKLAND.
Last night. The annual meeting of the Auckland branch of the H.A.C. Benefit Society was held tonight. McConoelty was elected President. The report showed that owing to the Urge number of sick members on the list last quarter large demands had been made on the funds of the society. Archbishop Stein, the new Boman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, obtained a public reception at St. Patrick's Cathedral tonight. It was crowded to excess. Addresses were presented to him from the clergy, the laity, the Christian Doctrine Society, and the Hibernian Benefit Society. He spoke in reply at some length. He said he hoped to have the co-operation of the clergy and laity in his work, and the latter would guard the faith they had received, and hand it down to their children, As to the educational question, it was difficult to say much about it, and h« would refrain at present: The City Council Works Committee on the petition of the unemployed, after con* sidering the petition, bus recommended the Mayor to urge upon Government the necessity for immediately starting on the Newmarket contract and Dempsey's reclamation.
The ceremony of presenting prizes to successful exhibitors in recent display of pictures held under the auspices of the Society of Artists was performed to-day by Bishop Cowie. The prize winners are Mrs Kohn, Mr Kenneth Watkins, Miss Constance Home, and Messrs O. JR. Campbell, Charles Blcornfield, A. Sharpe, J. McMnhon and G. E. Whitmore. To Mrs Kohn and Mr Watkins were awarded a silver medal each ; Miss Home was presented with a pallelte; five gentlemen obtained certificates of commendation. *
The nigger, troupe of H.MS. Cormorant gave an entertainment in the Lome street -Hall in aid of the widow and children of the late James Boyle (killed at Fort Britomart), which was very sue* cessful.
The Harbor Board declined to make
a grant to the regatta funds on the ground that the expenditure was contrary to law.
The proprietors of the Herald have offered a oup for competition at the regatta, to be called the New Zealand Herald Cup.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3434, 24 December 1879, Page 2
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346AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3434, 24 December 1879, Page 2
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