DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1906, Page 20

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The Very Rev. Father Keating, S.J., of Melbourne, is conduci/ing the retreat of the Sisters of Mercy, South Dunedin.

The Rev. Father O'Brien, of Warracknabeal, Victoria, who had been paying a brief visit to New Zealand, left for Melbourne by the ' Maheno ' on Sunday. The Rev. J. Slattery, CM., of Bathurst (N.S.W.), who had been for some days the guest of hjs Lordship Bishop Verdon, left last week for the cold lakes district.

At the close of the distribution of puizes at the convent school, Port Chalmers, Miss Nellie Drake was presented with a gold medal for having passed two musical examinations (theoretical and practical) with honors. Miss Lucy Osborne was presented with a silver medal for having secured honors in the musical knowledge examination.

We regret to record the death at Treesbank, Palmerston South, of Miss Dorinda Mary Horan, younger daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Horan, which occurred on December 18. The deceased, who was highly esteemed by a large circle of friends, always took a practical interest in Church matters, and was ever to the fore in works of- religion and charity.— R.l. P. A heavily-built, dark-bearded foreigner, who professes to be a ' Catholic priest ' and a priest of the Nestorian denomination, has been soliciting contributions from Catholics in. and about Dunedin. So far as we know, there are no Nestorians in New Zealand. The individual in q-ueslion 'is not a priest of any rite in union with Rome, and he has no authorisation from his Lordship the Bishop to collect money from Catholics in the diocese of Dunedin. The Rev. Father Dahdah, now ministering to the Syrians in Dunedin, is the only priest at present in the diocese belonging to any Eastern rite in communion with Rome,