DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 11 January 1906, Page 4

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.

_ (By telegraph from our own correspondent.) ~ ' Auckland, January 8. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne and his Lordship Bishop Higgins, accompanied by Rev. Fathers Sheridan and O'Hare, arrived on Sunday from Sydney. The distinguished visitors were met at the wharf by Bishop Lenihan and driven to the Cathedral. After Mass they were driven around the suburbs to the Bishop's Palace, in the evening there were Pontifical Vespers, when the Archbishop preached an eloquent sermon on the feast of the Epiphany, in the course of which he dwelt at (length on the qualities of divine faith, and urged the congregation to emulate the example of the Wise Men. Solemn Pontifical Benediction was given by his Lordship Bishop Higgins. The Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan was present in the sanctuary. In the evening Bishop Lenihan gave a dinner at the Palace in honor of the visiting prelates, to which several of the clergy and prominent laymen were invited. The distinguished visitors left on Monday morning for Rotorua, where they will make a stay of three weeks. They will return to Sydney from Wellington, going from Rotorua to the Empire (Jity by way of the Wanganui River.