AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 16, 5 February 1892, Page 7

AUCKLAND.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

January 27, 1892. The Rev Sister Mary Ignatics has been elected Mother Superior of St Mary's Convent to succeed tbe Rev Mother Regis, deceased. Mother Ignatius is beloved by the whole Catholic community of Auckland, as well as by numbers of those who are not of the Cburch, 1 well remember the days when she was my teacher. Dear old lady 1 many a good young Catholic of to-day may tbank God that you bad the charge of his or her education in early days when those lessons of faith, hope, and charity were taught which have formed the basis of edifying lives. Those who were instructed by Mother Mary Ignatius are amongst the best of the community. Part of the school buildings of the Sisters of Mercy, in Hobson street, having been fitted up as a residence, six of the Sisters have come from Ponsonby to live there. Thus they will be able to go about and visit the sick, to help the poor, and to watch the interests of education more effectively than if away at Ponsonby, out of tbe cathedral parish. It will be a great blessing to tbe people to have nuns living in thtir midst, praying for them and assisting them in that great warfare in which everyone of us must engage — the awful and momentous fight for eternal salvation. The duty of ths people, however, is very plain, They must help the nuns to live. It is very gratifying to be able to state that tbe cost of tbe alterations, £127, has been paid throngh the efforts of a few good ladies, who undertook the task of collecting money with this object ; but tbe Sisters of Mercy are not wealthy— poverty is their portion, and it is the duty of the people to support them. This reminds me that a great deal of rubbish is talked by some people when they are appealed to to help in a good work of this or any other kind. " I cannot afford it, it is impossible for me to contribute, for lam at my wit's end to make both ends meet," is what they say. They tell the applicant they are very sorry, and when he has left they roundly abuse him. Yet people of this class are those who bedeck themselves with finery, and spend a month's salary, perhaps, for a piece of gowgaw trimming, or some nonßensical-looking hat, or something of that kind. Thote are the people who take front seats at any public display, and jostle and bustle the timid people who pay their way through

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