ST. JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8758, 21 March 1890, Page 2

ST. JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL.

Tha anniversary of the opening of St. Joseph's Cathedral was celebrated on Wednesday morning with a Pontifical High alajs at 10 o'clock; the Most Rev. Dr Moran acting as celebrant, tho Very Key. FatherMackay (Oamaru) as deacon, tie Bey. Father Hunt(So\ith Dunedinjasenb-der cou, theEov. Father o O'Donnell (Port Chalmers) and O'SnWl as deacon assistants at the throne, and th'j Eov. Father Lynch, adra.,R3 master of ceremonies. The Hlost Jitv. Dr Luck, Bishop of Auckland, occupied a Beat within the sanctuary. Xhp nuuic of tile mass was beautifully sung by the Dominican nuns. Bishop Moran addressed a few words to the jougrejjat.ion, in the conrso of which Ik announce i thai (ho sum of £22,000 had been expended oittl.e cathedral, and tirnt although it was pracf ic.illy free '3f debt on the opening duy, various things had beei, done to the building, and there remained now only £.m due en it, and ho hoped to be able to say irithln a very short time that even this small sum h id been cleared off. He was most anxious that this ...hnuld be done, mid that not ouo shilling should bo i whig on a building used for the purpose of Dlvir'3 services, that hia house of God should be altoß»Jlier free of debt, co that no man could Eay lie hud t,?o least elulmggnliut it. Immediately that this debtivaspaidheintended building a church at North-Bast Valley; not a very large one, but one that would oe sufficiently large and useful for the growing c>.inim'j>atiou in that district. ;

In the evening the Most ReV. Bishop Luck, of Auckland, gavo a short discourse on the titular saint of the cathedral, giving a brief outline rf thn many Rood qualities of the saint, and itrongly urging the necessity of following in the ettps of a man noted for his pure and true life.