DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 15

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) . ' ~ 2. The entertainment held in St. Benedict's Hall last Monday evening in aid of the local convent was an- unqualified success. The hall • was crowded. ' The committee worked hard, and their labors should be amply rewarded by the returns, which will materially assist the work of the good Sisters of St. J v osepbv

~ .His- Lordship the Bishop was at Taupo last - Sun•rday, and from there goes on to Rotorua : _ Last, Friday evening a -fine enter tairiment was given in "the convent- school, Ponsonby,' before a good audience, who thoroughly enjoyed the programme prepared for them , by the good Sisters' and" their :pupils "'°n >y^ierday, All Saints' Day; -the 'early • Masses ati , the^city * churches were- largely attended; At St. Pat--ricks the .attendance was equal to a Sunday -morning. \ The 'devotions also were well attended. This morning Masses for the .dead were celebrated - Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald,' M.P. for Leicester, has come ' and .gone. He addressed a publia meeting here. He'~is a flueiit-und forcible speakei, with a pronounced Scotch - accent.- • 1 he. aims, aspirations,- and - successes of • the JLabor; Party in England were told with vigor: and sometimes with' vehemences For ' one - thing- during the -speech I, with others, waited, in vain. ;Thaf was a^Ved ". of-: praise fop .the -assistance rendered -to Labor in the House of;.; Commons, and outside -of -if, by -the Irish Party, without which assistance Mr. Mac Donald' would the 6 Labor Pi t Ue t0 Sh ° W in the " Wa y of progress by