TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13321, 5 March 1914, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

I The school swimming baths will not be open to the public on Saturday afternoon. It is expected that there will be a largo cttt-mlance at the baths to-mor-row to sco the exhibition of swimming and diving by !Miss Kathleen Mack. Tho sitting of the Tairawhiti Maori Land Board was continued to-day, when the following additional applications were considered : — Confirmation of lease.: Hirawanui Rakau and Ngakura Rakau to Albert 'J. E. Harvey, Poutaka No. 24. Confirmation of sale : Henare Pakura and others to .* Ann McFarland Mossman, Rotokakarangu No. 1 ; 11. Amahona Huruhuru to Peter Jonson (Mr Nolan), Te Rato 3c2 ; Henare Pakura to Paora Rerepu te Urupu, Waipapa 103 j Rawiri Karaha and Mihi Pohura to G. W. P-alairet and J. H. Kane (Mr Kane), Whangara K385 (first mortgage) ; Ihaia Hokete to Mary Jane Bayly (Mr Kane), Awapuni I J2 ; Pare Keiha and Heni Turei to Mary Jane Bayly (Mr Kane), Kaiti 344, part. A number of the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops of Australasia will, it is announced, visit Rome next year for the purpose of joining m the ceremonies m connection .with the beatification of the Vett^'able Oliver Plunket, a former archbishop of Armagh, m the North of Ireland, who m the year 1681, during the reign of King Charles 11. , ! was put to death for alleged high treason. Archbishop Plunket, accordin,'? to historic records, was born m 1629, and was raised to the episcopacy m 1669. The present Earl of Fingal is a member of the illustrious Plunket family, which was represented m Australia for many years by the Hon. and Rev. Father Plunket, of the Redemptorist Order, one of the founders of Ballarat monastery, and subsequently attached to the monastery at Waratah, New South Wales. The ceremonies m connection with the beatification of Venerable Oliver Plunket, who is regarded by the, church as a martyr, will be attended by archbishops and bishops from all parts of the- world.