ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION. Rev. Dr. Macdonald at Cambridge.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1251, 6 July 1880, Page 2

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION. Rev. Dr. Macdonald at Cambridge.

The Very Rev. Dr. Macclonald held Maori Mission Services at St. Peter's, Cambridge, on Sunday last, morning and evening. Both services were conducted in the European and Maori languages, and Mass celebrated in the morning. There wa*> a large congregation on each occasion. The Rev. Doctor, in hi* discourse, remarked that he was delighted to have the honor of the appointment to this Mission and of meeting Ids Maori friends in such a ! handsome building as that in which they were congregated, an edifice of great credit to the rising, flourishing | and important district of Cambridge. The Maori boy« were catechised by the Rev. Father, and responded with a readiness that was quite wonderful, Te Uri Karaka, a youth, repeating .some twenty or thirty pages of the Prayer Book with astonishing accuracy, having been under the Rev. Doctor's tuition a few months only. To judge from the earnestness and great attention paid to the sermons, the rev. gentleman has evidently a thorough knowledg^ of the Maori language and customs, and it must be a great gratification to Roman Catholic natives that one so gifted and so Avell liked should have been appointed by His Grace the Archbishop to the important charge of this Mission. In the evening the choir &ang "The Litany of the Blessed Virgin," in Latin, together with other devotional hymns. Many of the Ngatiraukawas, Ngaterangi, and Ngatihauas attended the services.

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