ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 3, 17 January 1901, Page 5

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON.

(From our own correspondent.) January 12. The retreat of the Sisters of Mercy was closed on Thursday. Bro. Mark has for some time been in indifferent health and ia going to spend a short holiday in Australia. Father Ainsworth is due from the West Coast next week, He and Father Lane leave for Home via Sydney on February 2. For the repose of the soul of the late Professor Clarke a Soiemn Requiem Mass is to be celebrated in St Mary's Church, Guilford Terrace, on Monday next. The Rev. Father McCarthy, inspector of Catholic schools in the arohdiocese of Melbourne, is visiting this Colony. He proceeds shortly to Christchurch. Father Chervier has so far recovered from his recent very serious illness as to be able to travel. lie is now visiting Blenheim accompanied by Father James Goggan. It is definitely decided that the foundation stone of the new Cathedral will be laid by Cardinal Moran on February 3. Hia Eminence is expected to leave Sydney ou the JUth inst. and is due here on the 31st. The Women's Branch of the II.A C B.S. has 10-t thp services of its energetic and popular secretary, Mibs X. Dwyt-r, who is leavingWellington. At the last meeting of the Society her resignation waa aocepted with regret. Bro. John, Provincial of the Marist Brothers in Australasia for the past 26 years, has been appointed Brother-as-iatant at the head house of the Order in Lyons. He leaves shortly to take up his new duties. The Yen. Archdeacon Devoy left London for Ireland in the early part of December. He writes that he and Dean Carew are well and that during their stay in London they met many New Zealand friends who are holding their own in the jjre.'-t metropolis He was looking forward with pleasure to hid visit to the Old Land' where he intended spending three or four months*. ' The Sacred Heart Church at Thorndon in assuming a finished appearance, and the contractor confidently expects to have the building completed by the opening day. The difficulty of procuring dry kauri in lengths suitable for the wata in causing Mr. Haughey, the sub-contractor, some anxiety, but he, too. is confident that the opening day will find him ready. The choirs of the three churches, combined for the occasion, are assiduously working- at Haydn's Imperial Mass, and the rehearsals show that they are determined to do their part in a manner befitting the ceremony.