DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 48, 30 November 1899, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.) November 23. Rev. Father Kehoe, I am pleased to state, has so far recovered as to be able to resume charge of the Parnell parish. The Rev. Canon Bates (Anglican) speaking from his pulpit in Remuera last Sunday said, ' The present war in South Africa is one of greed and territory grabbing. If there had been no gold mines there would have been no war.' The Auckland Catholic Cemetery Board met last Friday evening at St Benedict's Presbytery, the Rev. Father Gillan presiding. It was decided to commence at once operations for the renovation of the Symond Street Cemetery. A first contract, with this object, was subsequently given out. The Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan has written under date October 12, from Liverpool, whence he was going to his old Seminary in London to officiate, after which he was to start for Spain. At Valladolid our dear Bishop would no doubt receive a hearty welcome from his old college where he spent so many years of his life. The quarterly criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were suspended on Tuesday last owing to the illness of the Crown Prosecutor, the Hon. J. A. Tole, who, on the previous day, had conducted his business under very apparent difficulties. It is to be hoped the popular counsel may soon be restored to health. The public meeting called by the Chairman of the Harbour Board to protest against the handing over of Samoa to Germany ended most ingloriously. During the recent trouble at the island our Press and public men in Auckland looked upon Samoa as indispensable to the Colony, but in an especial manner indispensable to this city. Why is Samoa now dispensable 1 The district officers of the H.A.C.B. Society have decided to wait upon the Premier, who is due in Auckland in a few days, and point out to him the hardship entailed by members of the society throughout the Colony in having to stamp receipts for society moneys, which the officers will contend is diametrically opposed to the spirit and letter of the Friendly Societies Act. The Rev. Mother Paul, of the Sisters of Mercy, is, I regret to say, very dangerously ill at St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby. The Rev. Mother has been for years associated with every good work pertaining to the education and advancement of the young in Auckland City and province. There are many now advanced in years who fondly cherish and remember her good and kindly advice to them. The Very Rev. Monsignor Hoyne, V.G., of Ballarat, arrived from the South last Saturday morning, and said the first Mass on Sunday at St. Patrick's. The Rev. Father Kelsh, of Westbury, Tasmania, also arrived from the South on the same day and celebrated last Mass at the Cathedral. Both rev. gentlemen were the guests, while in Auckland, of the Very Rev. Dean O'Reilly. They intend to visit the Lake district. The Rev. Father O'Connor, who was ordained to the priesthood on the Feast of the Assumption in Ireland, by the Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan, arrived in Auckland last Sunday afternoon. He is under orders to proceed to Gisborne as curate to the Rev. Father Mulvihill. By the steamer to Australia with Father O'Connor there were sixteen nuns and seven priests. One of the former, Sister Margaret Mary, of the Dominican Order, passed through Auckland this week en route to Dunedin, accompanied by Miss Prendergast, a niece of Mother Ignatius and Sister Mary Columba of the Sisters of Mercy, Auckland a postulant for the Dunedin Dominican Convent.