DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 20, 21 May 1908, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph from an occasional correspondent.) May |59.

Cn Wednesday e\ei.in^ last, at Rcmuera, the Rev. Father O'Donnell, who has just returned, from an extended, tour ot ihe delivered a most interesting lectuie on ' iielaii.o. in anl ,of the luncls of U.e l<j*-ai branch ot the faociety ot fc>i. \ liicenl do i'aul. Mr. r ciiioii, piCbiuonL ox ilie ►iOoiol} , pic&iUcu, a 11 '*-! lniiuaucui ihe i\.c\ . lcvlurei-. A \eiy large aumence, wlncn completely lilied t>t. iVUr^ s iiall, listened wnn iapl abWnUon ab rather U'JJu'nnuii condaciud them Uuui Auckland, \ia :\apCs, Koine and Paris, ,to Ireland. Fully 2UU views ot tlu hustoncal *.nd beauty spots ot the Old Land weie Uuovu on Uio soiuen, n \vmiu many nteresting -details concerning them were naii a tcd by the lectuier. Fathui O'Douncli dweH at some length on cattle driving in li eland, &.,nd \kj,oroid!aly denounced the secular press for the unfair manner in which it deals with thus and other lush questiqns. Towards the end o t |he lectuie, Father O'Donnell spoke eloquently on the life and woUv of Daniel O'Connell ami concluded his lemarus with the wolds : ' Of all vie great men that our race has pioduced, there was none more illustrious or more worthy of imitation than Danicil O'Connell. He de> oted his whole life |to the upliftms; and advancement of Ins jpcople, and ne\ Ci. forgot) that, while he was an Irishman, |he was also a lirist'icui and a Catholic. What could be [more noble than has la&t words : 'My body to lialand, my heart to Rome, and my love to God, etc." 'Diuins, jt he e\enin^, national son,s were rendered by Mr. Pritchard, and Misses Loriman and Carrigan, while Mass Andersen presided at the piano. *•

Mr. Fallon mo\rd a vote of thai^s to Father O'Donnell, which was enthusiastically carried. The funds of the Society will be 1y benefited by proceeds of the lecture.