DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

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

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

A very five programme of sports has been prepared for the annual picnic of the children of the Catholic schools, which takes place at Outram to-day. The committee, who have had the affair in hand, have left nothing undone to secure the success of the outing. A retreat for the women of the parish will be opened in St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday evening. The retreat will be conducted by the Very Rev. Father Boyle, and the opening sermon will be preached by his Grace the Archbishop of Wellington. On Sunday next, February 17, the foundation stone of the new Convent of Mercy, South Dunedin, will be laid to the accompaniment of solemn and appropriate ceremonies. The Pontifical High Mass will be celebrated at 10.30 by the Right Rev. Dr. Grimes, S.M., Bishop of Christchurch, after which the foundation stone will be laid by his Grace the Archbishop of Wellington. The preacher for the occasaion will be his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, and we trust that Dunedin Catholics will avail themselves fully of the opportunity of seeing and hearing this learned and distingui-hed •c lesiastio Other arrangements in connection with the celebration are notified in our advertising columns. The old weather-board co tage which has done service for a convent has long been painfully inadequate for the needs of the growing community, and the erection of a new and commodious building is imperatively necessary in the interests both of the health and reasonable oocufort of the Sisters. The Most Rev. Dr. Carr (Archbishop of Melbourne), the Most Rev. Dr. Redwood (Archbishop of Wellington), the Right Rev. Dr. Grimes (Bishop of Christchurch), the Right Rev. Dr. Verdoii (Bishop of Dunedin), the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly (.Auckland), accompanied by a number of clergy, arrived in Dunedin from Christchurch on Wednesday evening. They were met at the railway station by the Rev. Father Murphy, Adm. St. Josephs Cathedral, the local clergy, and a large gathering of the Cathoiic laity. A procession, composed of the various confraternities of the cathedral parish, pupils of the Christian Brothers' school, a band, the Hibernian Society, the Catholic laity, with the prelates and clergy in carriages, then proceeded by the way of Princes street and Stuart street to the Cathedral. Here addresses of welcome were presented to his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, his Grace the Archbishop of Wellington, his Lordship the Bishop of Chrietchurch, and the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly (representing the Bi«hop of Auckland;. The addresses were read by Mr. J. B. CaUan. A full report of the reception will appear in our next issue.