APPEAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 38, 9 January 1885, Page 14

APPEAL.

TO THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON COLEMAN. „ _ . " Dunedin, April 30, 1884. My Dear Arobdeacon,— The walls of the Cathedral will be soon completed. I hope that the weekly subscriptions, in addition to the sum in hand, will enable us to see the completion of these walls without the incurring of debt. But this completion will see our funds exhausted ; and yet it is absolutely necessary that no time should be lost m putting on the roof. Under these circumstances I have resolved to appeal to the entire diocese for funds to meet the expense necessary to bring our great work to a conclusion ; and I have made up my mind to entrust to you the duty of collecting the much-required funds. I know I could not entrust the work to better or more efficient hands. I think I may promise you a hearty co-operation and a generous reception on the part of both the priests and laity of this diocese, who have ever shown great zeal for this and all other good works. You will not fail to remind all to whom you may apply that tne erection of a Cathedral is emphatically a diocesan work, and that the merit of helping in such erection is very great.— l am, mv dear Archdeacon. __ . t P- Moran. From the above it can be seen that I am called upon to visit all the districts in the diocese to collect for the Cathedral, and, from my own knowledge of the people of Otago and Southland, I feel confident that a generous response will be made to the special call now made by his Lordship ; for I knew the faith and goodness and devotion to our holy religion of the residents of every parish in the diocese.— The Catholics of this diocese are always ready to make great sacrifices in co-operating for the love of our Lord with the Bishop whom the Holy See has given them to guide them in all thing's spiritual. 6 W. Coleman.