DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 39, 28 September 1905, Page 18

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

Thfe devotion of th« Forty Hours' A4o«ation W&gin» in -St. 1 .Joseph's Cathedral to-morrow (Friday) morning.. The initial performance of the domestic drama, ''My, Sweetheart, 1 was given in the Princess Theatre last night before. a large and appreciative audience, ft will be presented again this (Thursday) evening «a|nri on Friday evening. The production is, as, most of our -reader*, axe -al ready aware, In aid. -of the funds of the Stt Vimjfißt d© Paul Orphanage, Sooitti Dunedin-. The Riefcti Rev. Dr. Kelly,.- Bisihop of Geraffidtoa (Western Australia), is at present on a brief visit to Dunedin, amd is the guest of the Bisihop of Dunedin. The Right Rev. Dr. Kelly (who, by the way, is 'ami old college companion and personal friend of the editou of this paper) is, we believe, the youngest Catholic Bishop in Australia. He is a native of Western Australia and did yeoman service to the Church in the GoMen! West, winning gulden opinions for his zeal v Ms schtolarshijp, and 'bis literary ability . He edited our Catholic .contemporary, the ' W.A. Record,' with marked distinction and success for many years, and, on the creation) of the new diocese of Geraldton, he was appointed its first Bishop and wajs ooWsecrated in on August} 14, 1898. His is a diocese of generous distances — as large as a big slice of Europe, and Bishop Kelly, like many of his nine priests, spends a goodly portion 08 his life in the saddle and camping out, with his •' lodging upon the cold ground.' The Right Rev. Prelate's graphic conversational descriptions of life and nature in Australia's Far West are intensely interesting, and there ia in him, we ween,, more than one book that would deserve to rival in popularity Foster Fraser's ■weiUcnowtt works of travel*