DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 11 February 1909, Page 224

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent.) mi , , February 8. lho secondary schools re-opened to-day, and the attendances were satisfactory. Rev Father .Keenan, who has "been visiting his relatives here, left for Sydney this evening. ,\ S6S 6 Ve / y Re 7' DesJn Gillan arr ived back from Gisborne last Ihursday, after an absence o>f about ten- days. His Lordship the Bishop was due to arrive in Sydney to-day, but the German liner is two days late, so* it is hardly probable that he will arrive in Auckland before February 21. Tho reception committee meets to-night to consider arrangements connected with his Lordship's arrival. xr RR q V " J^ST *■*****> ° f th « Cathedral, Newcastle, New South Wales, celebrated the 9 o'clock Mass yesterday at the Cathedral, and preached at the 11 o'clock Mass The usual procession took place after Vespers, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Father Keenan again preached an eloquent sermon to a very large congregation. The choir, under Mi. Hiscocks, rendered the music in a very finished manner.