DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 14

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

4 . our 'own correspondent.) p - January 25. His Graar Archbishop Redwood returned last night from Kaimo, in the Whangarei -district, where-he has been sojourning for his health. He is 1 likely to stay> in Auckland a few days as the guest of his Lordship Bishop Lenihan. ~ .

The retreat of the . Bishop and priests concludes today at the Sac cd Heart College. Mr. Devlin .is of opinion that Auckland and its surroundings ■ compare most favorably with anything- he has ever seen. From a man of such varied travel this is high praise indeed.. A mural tablet of red marble, tinged with green, is about to be placed in. position in St. Patrick's Cathedral in memory of "the late lamented Michael Davitt. Advantage will be -taken of Mr. Joseph Devlin's presence to unveil it. The cost was borne by one shilling subscriptions. His Lordship Bishop O'Connor of Maitland, and his Lordship Bishop Dunne of Bathurst, accompanied by Rev. Fathers Dunne, Marshall, . O'Reilly, Shanahon, and O'Donohue, arrived last Saturday evening from San Francisco in the ' Sonoma.' The two Australian Prelates stayed with our Bishop. Dr. O'Connor preached at St. Patrick's on Sunday evening. On Monday, accompanied by Mr. Joseph- Devlin, they ' made a round of vis-its to our institutions, and in the afternoon went south in the ' Takapuna.'