News of the Week.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 240, 7 December 1877, Page 11

News of the Week.

! A receptiox of aspirants into the Society of ■the Children of Mary, will take place in St. Joseph's Church, Dunedin, o:i Saturday evening next, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, on the conclusion ■ of Vespers. I The Syfhiey Frrrmanx Journal understands, on very fcpol , authority, that His Holiness tie Pope has iVcided on dividing Scjti land into five Bishoprics, an I the pivs.Mit Prior of the Beuclictine i monasterj. Father Jerome Vnngoan. 0.5.8.. Fort Augustus, is likely |to b« one of the live Bishops. The Her. Father Prior is brother to t!ie , Archbi.-liop of Sydney, and tc< the Bishop of ,Salfoi\l, and nc;>hc\v of . the Bi>hop of Plymouth,

We learn that a donation of £5 has been contributed to the Dominican Convent Building Funl by Mr. and Mrs. Brazil of Moa Tlat. It will l)c rc?ollccte 1 that tbe lady in question was the fortunate Avinner of the piizo presented by His Holiness the Pope to tbe late Art Union. We are further informed that Mr. Kyran Brophy, of Geraldinc, who won two pictures, generously bestowed one of them uj)on the convent. _ It is desirable thai the holders of winning tickets in the late Art Union should forward them at once to the Lady Superior at the Convent, Dowliiig Street, Dunedin, with directions as to the forwarding of the prizes. Persons by paying immediate attention to this request will prevent a considerable amount of trouble. The Eev. Father Hcimebery is said to have induced 3.000 people nt Christchnvch to take the temperance pledge, A procession of over 2.000 of those who had clone co. wearing medals and sashes and canying banners, inarched through the principal , streets of the town in qnestion on Sunday last.