CARDINAL MORAN'S VISIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

CARDINAL MORAN'S VISIT.

Cardinal Moran has sent an official report, dated March 24, to tho Propaganda in Rome, giving an account of his recent visit to Now Zealand, The Rome correspondent of the London Tablet gives the following summary of it:-"His Eminence received tho most cordial welcome from all classes, including the Colonial Government of Now Zealand, the Governor doing all possible honor to the first Cardinal visiting that Colony. Twenty thousand people, mostly Proteatants and Presbyterians, met him at Dunedin, where His Eminence consecrated a new and splendid cathedral. . At Wellington, where he inaugurated the college of St. Patrick, built at an outlay of £20,000, the Governor gave a grand banquet and garden party to the Cardinal Archbishop,' who was accompanied by the'_ Bishops of Maitland, Adelaide, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington, and other secretaries. A private entertainment was also t;iveh in their honor, at which over 2,000 of the principal parsonages-in the colony took part, including the Governor and Chief Justice. At Auokland the party were received with regal honors, and found awaiting them a State carriage, drawn bysix white Arabian horses, with attendants in scarlet liveries. The address of welcome waß read by the Minister of Justice, whilst the travelling carriages were provided by the Colonial Secretary, Mrßuckley,' throughthe officials above named, the Cardinal states, are at variance with the Bishops of Wellington and Auokland, Bishop Reynolds, of Adelaid, in writing to the Propaganda on the-same subject, under date March 27, says that the visit of Cardinal Moran to New Zealand will prove of incalculable benefit; that his reception was truly loyal even the Orangemen taking part therein, and that'at the banquet given at Wellington, presided over by the Governor in person, all the Protestant ladies claimed the privilege accorded to their Catholic sisters to kiss the ring of the Cardinal, whose general courtesy and kindly words won allhearts."