DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 6 December 1906, Page 24

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our OTsna correspomdeat.) A very successful euchre party was held- at Devonport last evening inward of the The request of the; Right-Rev j''Dr; ; t/enihan, that the trieniAal meeting of the rs.Z'.' District be deferred.until March; has met wtih r a favorable response r from the branches. Of all the replies to"-hand' only one objected to the: change.- ■■■■■'■-.'.■# a>; :; . ; ._v;. :\&s. '..•- -;>.•■••.-:■■.-. .^.--:..:.c Great progress has 'been made by the contractors within Hhe last ■" mortthP^w Patrick's • Cathedral.. The building is now . outlined,' ami its' proportions easily •discerned. At tlie-'present rate the work should be accomplished in thecontract time, St. Patrick's Day, .1907. -, : ■ Last evening the . aunual entertainment- by the pupils of the in"thelPitt 'street school: The- hair wast-packed Quite;? the "local priest-s attended. - M 'Thtf-performahces" by-:tlie boys" were highly me'ritoribusV an^'- ; '%y-6Ued"''loud^ : ' , applaus^;~-' : ''in' many cases encores being;.demanded. The good:: Brothers and their pupils deserve the 'highest commendation. The following was the proga'annme.:—Overture, orchestra ; chorus, senior pupils ;precvt at iboi, C. "Bacon •;' duet; ■. W. Fisoheiv and ■:■- Hw Alder,; >i chorus, ;■;■ junior "pupils ; dumbbell; drill, > senior;sq«ad^s^ong 'and- -chbrusy senior pupils ;-.lecture,-r:A, .Smith ?■'-*■ ch-bxHsj pupils ; : sketch', chorus, seniors.' "-A -farbey^The^-Doctor's;:Holiday-, j: cbh- . eluded the ; ; the r ;; characters - being taken by 'Masters J.. O.'Loghlan, • \V. : Fiseher," C. McPullough," C. Lonergan, W. Wickstead, B. Buckler. -Mr;.' P.; F. Hiscoeks -was leader of, ls ihe.. orchestra, and Mr. H. lliscocks acted as accompanist. . Kllil.U > u .1