DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 7, 14 February 1901, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our owu correspondent.) February 7. The Sisters of Mercy, Auckland, have contributed £1 Is and the Sisters of St. Joseph £1 to the Stoke Defence Fund. The Auckland section of the Hibernian Society's delegates to the Dunedin meeting leaves next week. The party will mußter fully fifteen. Rev. Father O'Connor, of Gisborne, celebrated Mass at the cathedral hwt Sunday. He left for Rotorua on Tuesday, where he stays for some time for the benefit of his health. The Catholic schools under the Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St. Joseph, and the Marist Brothers opened, after the long vacation, last Monday. The day was miserably wet, which no doubt materially affected the attendance. The local branch of the Irish National Federation, by yesterday's outgoing San Francisco mail, sent through Mr. John Dillon, M.P., to the treasurers of the Irish Parliamentary Fund, the sum of £30. It is intended by the branch to organise during the coming winter months an entertainment in aid of the Irish Parliamentary Fund. Mr. Michael Davitt, writing to your Auckland correspondent from Dalkey under date December 27, inter alia says : 'We are commencing the new century a united people, with a national organisation and a compact party, and for this most hopeful change and the promieing prospect which it holds out to the country we have to thank William O'Brien more than any other living man. John Dillon has worked nobly for this end too, in resigning his position so as to promote union, and he has his reward in knowing that there could have been no such unity as now exists were it not for his spirit of self-sacrifice. The Convention was a great success, and its influence for good and for the promotion of national discipline was seen in the fortunate ending of the promised trouble in North Monaghan. I hope soon to begin the publication of my book, The Boer Story of the War. The story about my alleged denunciation of the Boers has bad a world-wide circulation, but the truth catches up with fabrication in the end. It was all a piece of very dishonest Unionist propaganda, and the author has recently exhibited his true character to the public'