DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 31 July 1902, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.)

July 24. At St Benedict's last Sunday there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Rev Father Gillan preached in the evening. The music was exceptionally fine, The new regulations issued by the Government for the industrial homes are considered by our local ecclesiastical authoritiea to be too stringent and unnecessarily irksome. A very bitter leader appeared in our morning paper yesterday on the Irish question. The editor was inspired to write by the statements cabled out and attributed to Mr Crimmins as to the 'contentedneflg and prosperity of Ireland ' H.h^n.l 11^ 11^; 11111111^^? 1 ' 88 * 1 ' 5'5 '^ 11 ° f tQe loCftl braD O h Of the Hibernian Society was held last evening in the Hibernian Hall. It was an excellent turn out and reflected credit upon the members. A large number of guests from kindred societies were present. The B O ri°W D X^ C fn% a ? e S ded^ ?r v- Stead ( D « P -),Bro.Beehan (D.V.P.), Bro W. Kane (DA), Bro. Sheahan (D.T.), Bro. Y. Williams (branch President) Bro. F.Gordon (V.P.), Bro. D. Flynn (treasurer), B?Ss rovMed atte " On ' and Fa «weather. A sumptuous supper was His Lordship the Bishop preached at St. Patriok's on Sunday evening. The subject of his sermon was the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which he said wbb doing an incalculable amount of good m an unostentatious manner. Few indeed were aware of the work it was doing m the way of giving food and clothing to those who stood in need of assistance. The Bishop ooncluded by exhorting his hearers to remember in their charity the St. Vincent de Paul bociety, and promised the contributors that they would be rewarded hereafter by Him Who said, ' When I was hungry you gave Me to eat, when I was thirsty you gave Me to drink, and when I was naked you clothed Me.' » uTH Ba( * ne , W8 of the death of our former Bishop, his Grace Archbishop Croke, was received here this morning and caused genuine regret. Not only was he a great Churchman, but also a sterling patriot, and his memory will be enshrined in the hearts and affections of his countrymen. Upon hiß return from the eternal City, in the midst of the fierce fight of the land war, he publicly said ' I have come back unchanged and unchangeable ' lhis diocese owed him much, as during his B hort stay in it he released from debt those portions or it which were encumbered His name and fame shall be treasured by generations yet to come as one of the men who gave new life to Ireland.