DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 27 September 1906, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(Prom our own correspondent.) September 21. His Lordship the Bishop leaves for Grisborne some time during next week. While in the district he. will open a new church at Te Karaka. The pupils of St. Joseph's Convent School, Surrey Hills, are to give an entertainment in St. Benedict's Hall this evening. Rev. Father Farthing, who arrived last Sunday froni Sydney, is for the present stationed at St. Patrick's. The Old Boys' Association will give an entertainment in the Royal Albert Hall on Monday evening, October 15. The annual social, arranged by the ladies of St Patrick's parish in aid of the Cathedral fund, will takq place next Wednesday evening in the Royal Albert Hall. A new borough has just come into existence over the boundary of the city proper. It is called Mount Eden. Its new Mayor and councillors have been elected. The Bill to enable Ms Lordship the Bishop to dispose of the land upon which the Star of the Sea Orphanage stands in Ponsonby, and which is being managed through Parliament by Mr. F. E. Baume has passed its second reading. ' During the last month our local morning and evening journals have given copious extracts from the sermons delivered by the Rev. Father Vaughan on the * Smart Set ' of London. Excellent photographs of Father Vaughan have also appeared in both papers. The Very Rev. Father -©lune, C.SS.R., after his successful missions in Waikato, left last Tuesday for Wellington, where he is to conduct a mission. Father Clune expects to be in Auckland at the re-opening of St. Patrick's Cathedral, whioh event, it is thought, will take place next St. Patrick's Day. The news of the death of Mr. James Aloysius Lynch, 8.L., at Westport, was received here with sincere regret. His family and himself were widely known and deservedly respected in this city. Mother Aquinas, of the Sisters of Mercy, and Miss Lynch, of this city, are sisters of the deceased. — RJ.P. Rev. Father Can-ill, who, since his arrival from Home, has been stationed at St. Patrick's Cathedral, has been appointed to the charge of Ngarua-wahi-a and Huntly. The Children of Mary and the local branch of the H. A. C.B. Society feel his departure very much. Father Ca-hill leaves on the 29th inst. The old St. Patrick's 'has now entirely disappeared. Many have secured relics of the fine oid building, and taken them to their homes. A lady from Wellington city, who formerly lived here, and whose father worked very hard during the building of the old church in the forties, carrying the great stones upon his broad shoulders -up the steep hill— carting

was impossible in those primitive roads, took ' 'back with he,: a itvasuicd piece of the old ceiling to* the Empire City. Intimation has been received here of the intended visit to Auckland of Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P., ,for West Belfast, and Mr. J...J. Donovan. It is likely that four meetings will be suggested for this ' province, viz. : Auckland City, Gisborne, WaiW,' and probably Hamilton, in the Waikato district. The Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly (Thames), Very Rev. Dean Hackett (Paeroa), and Very Rev. Father Brodie (Waihi), after due consideration think that WaM should be the most suitable place for the Irish envoys to hol-d their meeting.