DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 18, 30 April 1903, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.)

April 23. The Rev. Father Furlong is at present on a visit to Rotorua.

Amongst the passengers who passed through by the Ventura for Sydney on Monday was the Right Rev. Dr Broyer, Vicar-Apostolic of the Navigator Islands, who is making his periodical visitation to the portion of the Solomon Group owned by Germany. At the Foresters' Hall, Newton, on Saturday evenmgi the bazaar promoted in aid of St. Joseph's Convent building fund was again largely attended. The sales were most satisfactory. On Monday the remaining goods were sold by auction. The Rev. Father Gillan acknowledged with many thanks the kindness of his friends who had contributed to bring the Hazaar to such a successful issue. The net proceeds for the week's fair are expected to amount to £400.

On board the Mapourika, which sailed on her Parliamentary trip to the Islands on Sunday, I was introduced to Mr Parata, M.H.R., by the Hon T. Thompson. M.L.C., who said speak to my friend. I was addressed the|& by! the Maori in, a tongtie I knew not to be Majori "Upon inquiry I found that Mr. Parata had said : ' How are you, shake hands ? ' He had spoken in Irish. 1 felt very much humbled indeed, because I knew not my own native tongue. It seems Mr. Thompson had instructed Mr. Parata, who, in addition to commonplace remarks, had learned several old Irish songs, with which he used to please very much the late Sir Patrick Buckley.

The drawing in connection with the St. Patrick's Day art union was held in the Hibernian Hall on Wednesday evening. The supervisors were : Rev. Dr. Egan Messrs. P. J. Nerheny, Mr. Treston, and J. Stead. Mr. W. Orroond, who is studying for the priesthood at Propaganda College, Rome, writing to his parents in Auckland, says :— ' We celebrated, on the 3rd March, the Holy Father's jubilee. ' It was a great day in Rome. Preparations were made for the occasion oh all sides. Sixty thousand tickets of admission to St. Peter's were issued, 1 was told. No one could enter without a ticket. Early in the morning cabs were flying in all directions, aad I knew the day was going to be a memorably one. The ceremonies were timed to begin at 10 a.m. The doors of the basilica were opened two hours before the time, and when I got there at half-past eight the placo was well filled. Outside St. Peter's there were scores of soldiers keeping order ; inside the Swiss and Palatine Guards, etc., were kept busy in trying to prevent con' fusion. By 10 o'clock it was utterly impossible to get standing room in many parts of the church— people were crushed into every nook and corner. The heat was awful, and little infirmaries (inside St. Peter's) were erected for those who fainted, as it was utterly impossible to bring them into the open air through the masses of people. It was after 11 when the Holy Father appeared in his chair. Such a reception as he got ! The effect was magnificent. The Pope was carried slowly towards the altar, amidst the wildest excitement. Mass was then begun. While it was going on the Pope remained near the altar. At the conclusion of the Mass he gave his blessing. Immediately afterwards a Te Deum was sung ; the Holy Father was again placed in his chair, wearing his new tiara, and was again carried through the excited crowd back to the Vatican. It was half-past one when the crowd left St. Peter's. There were immense numbers of TSnglish people there. The illuminations at night were more or less spoiled by the rain. On the whole, the ceremony was something to bo remembered, and the jubilee of a Popo is an event that history cannot often record. '

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