ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 44, 30 August 1928, Page 13

ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY

MESSAGE TO DOMINION FORMER VISIT RECALLED United Tress Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 30th August, noon.) ■ SYDNEY, This Day. Cardinal Ceretti, with other distinguished loaders of the Catholic Church, arrived in Sydney this morning aboard tho Oraina, and was welcomed by the local. dignitaries. Tho Cardinal, in a special message to the people of Now Zealand, handed to the Press Association, through tho courtesy of Bishop Cleary, says: "It is indeed a very great pleaanro to visit after an absence of thirteen years the Commonwealth of Australia. If circumstances permit, a no less pleasure should be mine in visiting the unforgettable- Islands of New Zealand. PRIVILEGED LAND. "I can well remember the sentiments of surprise and admiration experienced by mo on visiting that privileged land of such wonderful beauty. Its lofty mountains, its flower-decked plains, its crystal lakes, reminded me forcibly of my own fair land of Italy. The natural riches of tho country astonish tho visitor, and then there are industries so varied and so prolific, but most of all does the stranger to its shores wonder at those marvellous thermal regions for which the islands are famous, but, far beyond that, tho abundant fertility of its soil. GENEEOUS PEOPLE. "Yea, even more than the wondrous energy of its people- do I recall the kirn" y, generous enthusiasm with which the people received mo on my first, but I .hope not my last, visit to New ZealaiTd. Citizens, without distinction of class or creed, bade mo welcome and did all in their way to make my visit agreeable. TRIBUTE TO MAORIS. "In a special manner does my memory retain the enthusiastic manifestations of the kind and brave Maori people and the lively impression created in witnessing their quaint and significant customs lingers still iv my mind, and speaks volumes for the noblo traditions of the Natives of that interesting land. "Truly, New Zealand is a wonderful land —wonderful in what it has been, and wonderful in what it is, and, as Nature seems to have showered her choicest blessings ou it, so may tho good God send His abundant blessings on its generous, hospitable people. It is then with deep affection and with grateful memory that I pray our dear Lord to bless that beautiful land and its gentle, noblo people." PICTURESQUE PROCESSION. The procession of motor-cars, containing church degnitaries loaves tho Peninsular Wharf at Woolooinooloo Bay1 at 10 o'clock for St. Mary's Cathedral. The whole routo for a mile and a half will bo lined with . children from the Catholic schools. The rich dressings of the insignia of rank of the various Orders, enhanced by many quaint national dresses from foreign lands, will make this preliminary public display wonderfully spectacular, and such as has never hitherto been seen in. Australia.