BISHOP LENIHAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 86, 13 April 1899, Page 5

BISHOP LENIHAN.

g VISIT TO EOME,

Bishop Lenihan conducted service in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, March. 18, for the last time prior to Ms departure for .England and Rome. There was a large congregation/ In the course of tie service Bishop Lenihan 6aid: 'I appear before you tonight, after sixteen years of labour, as a priest and as a bishop.-'Many, good works have been accomplished since then.. After my arrival here I wast appointed, by the late Bishop, curate of St. Patrick's, under Father Walter. After a few ykars I was transferred to Ponsonby, aiifl there I Had to build a church and: form a iiew parish. Having done' so, I was transferred to Parnell," where! laboured until appointed administrator of the diocese, upon the death of the late Bishop. An election taking plaW prior to the death of the Bishop I was elected by the priests of the diocese cOradjutor Bishop. The Bishop dying necessitated ailother election, when I was again elected by the priests to be Bishop, and recommended by the Archbishop and Bishops of New Zealand, and my election ratified by the Pope. At my consecration as Bis Lop in St. Patrick's Cathedral, the good people of the fbiir parishes; but principally of this, parish, gaveme, as the rpsjdt of th^ir efforts, the' ' istim of' ''£■ 214:,' and. during my episco-t pal visitations throughoiit the diocese numerous sums have teen -gi-ven. to roe. At ilia §ynt»d lately hild'Kere I represented to my priests the necessity of my going Home to procure priests for. the diocese, and to lay before His Holiness the Pope me state of my diocese. I also wished., to secure a succession of. priests from Home for the increasing work of the diocese. This, of course, meant a large outlay of. money, and the priests, after consultation, determined to. make an appeal in their various parishes throughout the diocese. It was then thought that the sum of £300 would be raised. The result has more than realised this, -for no less a sum than £610 has,been' placed to my credit by the Treasurer. I do not know how to thank my people" for their great generosity. All I can offer them is my heart-felt prayers and gratitude ,and on my arrival in Some I will offer up' the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the spiritual and ■ temporal well-being of- my people.' At the conclusion of the service, the whole congregation knelt j*down, and received the Bishop's .blessing.

On March 20th His Lordship Bishop Lenihan'left by the mail steamer Mariposa en route for Eome. : He was accompanied by the Very Rev. Fathea Waters, Principal of St. Patricks College, Wellington, who proceeds aa far as San Francisco with His Lordship. Father Waters came up from Wellington by the s.s. Rotoiti ttiit morning. ,

Tenders for erection of the ne^r B.ank of; New Zealand premises at Wellington were opened oh April 5. Garmicbael.Bros,, bfrWellington, >*er«. the lowest, tHe amount lacing about . , >r**"-V ■*■ ' . •"! * -J, ■*■ »-*■!■«"-.■*-. fcLiiJi.^.^.j-li.-W- ~M..iAt. ..] ~. ■jp il |..i(t y-«*.* Ik