DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 25 June 1903, Page 18

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

His Loidship Bishop Verdon is making a visitation of portion of the Port Chalmers parish this week.

The de\otion of the Forty Hours' Adoration began in the Sacred Heart Church, Noith-Eust Valley, on Friday, and was concluded on Sunday morning. The various ceremonies were well attended, and an u'nprecedentedly large number ot persons approached the Holy Table at the S) ISO o'clock Mass on Sunday morning. Surgeon-Captain O'Neill (son ot ex-Sergeant O'Neill, of Dunedin) has completed his course of instruction at the Volunteer Ambulance School and passed the proficiency examination prescribed by the War Office and conducted by the olhcers of the Royal Army Medical Coips at~~headquart ers, London.

A meeting of the committee in connection with the Cathedral repairs iund was held m St. Joseph's Hall on Sunday evening, the Re\ . Father Murphy. Adm , presiding II was decided that the gentlemen appointed to each district should be^rn woik at once by subdividing, their respect i\e areas and securing the aid'of others to assist m collecting.

The Forty I Tours' Adoration took place in the (hurch of the Immaculate Conception, Wilton, within the Octave of Coi pus Chnsti Notwithstanding the incli>ni"ncv of the weather the attendance throughout was \ei.v good, mam oi the congregation having to come lit in a considerable distance r ) he Very Rev. Mgr. O'l.ciry (Lawrence) preached on two occasions, his sermons making a deep impression on his hearers. The altai was tastefully decorated for the occasion by the Dominican nuns, and the choir attended at Mass each day and rendered appropriate music. On Sunday morninn there was a large number of communicants. Mr Mark ITambourg (the renowned pianist) and Mr. Boiis Hambourg ('cellist) visited the Dominican Priory on Saturday and played several selections. The former

contributed two pianoforte items : ' Volksiied (Efamd^ r £ # i a "^ 'n^ niidsuinmer's night's dre*m ' (Mendel-ssohn-Liszt). Ihe cello items were ' Butterfly * Chopin's Nocturne in E flat,' and an impromptu. It is needless to say that the playing of these gifted musicians was an intellectual treat of the highest order. The nuns were highly pleased with the all too brief concert as were his Lordship the Bishop and the Rev. Fathers Murphy, Howard, and Cleary, who were also 'present The Messrs . Hambourg subsequently dined with his Lordship the Bishop and the priests, who were charmed with the aehghtful company and interesting causer ic of the talented brothers. It is rarely that one finds such wonderful Musical talent in people so voting— Uie pianist being only 24 and the 'cellist 18 years — both being very boyish looking. J