DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 33, 13 August 1903, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.)

i i August 6. The Very Rev. Dr. Egan, 0.5.8., who had been on a visit to his relatives in Sydney returned here last Friday, and has resumed charge of the Sacred Heart parish, Ponsonby.

A prqlmunaiy meeting in connection with the bazaar for the Sisters of Mercy was held m the Marist Brothers' primary school last Fnday evening, Mr. J. J. O'Brien, J.P., in the chair. There was a good attendance. It was decided to hold the bazaar in the Federal Hall, commencing on November 5.

Rev. Father King, parish priest of Pukekohe, met wi-th an accident when returning from Bombay. He was driving a pair-horse buggy, and at the Pukekohe East and Bombay roads the king-bolt broke, and the animals bolted. Father King was thrown out, and, getting entangled in the reins, was dragged along the road for nearly half a chain. He was considerably bruised. On arriving at Pukekohe, two miles from the scene of the accident, he was examined by Dr. Dalziel, who found that he had suflered no serious injury. The horses madly galloped on, and at the railway station, Pukekohe, one one of them dropped dead. Father King's, attendant was thrown out, but he escaped unhurt.

Mr. Maxwell Walker, M.A., lecturer on modern languages at the Auckland University College, has been appointed Latin master at the Sacred Heart College, conducted by the Marist Brothers. The Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly and the Very Rev. Dean Hackett, when in town last week, went over the fine college and spacious grounds, and they expressed great delight at what they had seen, averring that their expectations had been far more than realised, and prophesied a prosperous future for the college. Brother Basil, Superior in charge, has informed me that the new staff of Brothers to teach at the college will arrive next week m Auckland.

The Hon. William Beehan, M.L.C, has been the recipient of an exceedingly nice letter congratulating ing him upon his appointment to the Legislative Council from the Very Rev. Father Fitzgerald, of the Franciscan Order Sydney, well and favorably known as a great writer and eloquent preacher in the States of the Commonwealth and m Auckland province, where he has made two visitations recently. Mr. Sutton, corresponding sc-cretary of the H A.C B. Society, Sydney, also wrote forwarding the Executive Directory's hearty congratulations to New Zealand's District President, adding that the E.D voiced the opinions of every member of the Society throughout Australasia at the high honor conferred upon one of its foremost officers, thereby earning for the Society itself deserved recognition. Brother ►Sutton also conveyed his personal congratulations.

The stained-glass window presented by Mr. M. Waishe, to which I referred in a former letter, arrived by the Delphic last week, and will soon be erected in the Cathedral.