DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 9, 28 February 1901, Page 19

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

Mr. .T B. Callan. jun., has pa=sed the fiist section of the B.A, and first section of the LL. 13. decrees. We understand that the amount received at the laying of the foundation plo^e of the Couvent of Mercy, South Dunedin, and the subscriptions nince come to hnnd, bring the totil up to £o<)0. On Sund- y next Re?. Father Coffey will be in Mossburn, after which he will si-it Dipton a"d Winton, and will tnke up fubscription.s throughout the mis-ion in aid of the fck. Vincent de Paul Orphanage, South Dunnlm. In the lint of successful candid ite-i at tho recent Junior Civil Service examination will be found the names of the following pupils of the Christian Brother' School, Dunedin : — John F. O'Leary, OtaVia ; John fc-c n an. Mil'on . J. A. Knox, Dunedin ; J. J. Delargey, Waikaia. We are ]>lea-ed to hear tint Dr. Hall, ton of Mr. W. J. Hall, registrar of births, deaths, and marriages at Dnnedin, haa been appoinf^d senior hou--e surgeon at the Dunedin Hospital, in place of Dr. O Xeill who went with the Mxth contingent to i^outh Africa. Dr. Ha 1 had bren for some time acting as as-istant house surgeon at the Chri-tchurch Hospital. The retreat for wooden, conducted by the Very Rev. Father Boyle, CM., Sydney, wis brought to a ch>e in St. Joseph's Cathedral oa Sunday afternoon, when thore vai Exposition of the Bles-ed Sacrament and renewal of Baptismal vows. The attendance at the various exeic S3s duiing the wfek was very good, and the unprecedetitly larpe number of persons who approached the Holy Table at the early Masses on Sunday was not only niott edifying, but g*ve ample evidence th.it, thi' 1 bors of the Very Rev. Father Boyle during the previous week had borne pood fruit. On Sunday eveni'.g a retreat for men v>a3 op ned, and wi'.l be brought to a cIom? at Ve-pv r.s on Sunday.