DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 10, 8 July 1898, Page 4

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.)

Thursday, June 30, 1898. Mr. Andrew Twomey, a very old and deservedly respected parishioner of the Thames passed to his eternal rest on June 20th. tie was a native of Cork city, and was born there in 1811. He resided for the last twenty- rive years at the Thames, and at the time of his death was manager of the Waiotahi Battery. He was a model and exemplary Catholic, and practically showed this on many occasions by assisting pecuniarily the Church an 1 convent schools. The funeral obsequies were conducted by the Very Rev. Father O'Reilly, P.P., assisted by the Rev. Father Darby. On Sunday last Father O'Reilly, from the pulpit, mude feeling reference to the sad loss sustained by the death of Mr. Twomey. Such a sterling Catholic character was a worthy example for all, and he asked for the constant prayers of the faithful for the repose of the soul of the late Mr. Andrew Twomey. — May he rest in peace.

The Auckland Catholic Literary Society, headed by their president, Mr. William Tole, approached Holy Communion at St. Patrick's last Sunday. There was a good muster of the members. After Mass the rev. chaplain (Rev. Father Croke) entertained them at breakfast, for which the president, on behalf of the Society, returned thanks in a neat and appropriate speech. At last Mass Father Croke spoke from the pulpit, exhorting our young men to improve their store of knowledge.

One ot the speakers chosen to take part in the fourth of July celebration in the Rev. Mr. McMurray, an Anglican parson, who, at the outbreak of the present war, said he 'discerned in it the avenging hand of the Almighty.' The committee did the right thing in trotting out thiy latter-day Solomon. This ephemeral zeal in behalf of Jonathan munt cause him to laugh loud and long.

The city finances have gone to the bad this year to the extent of £800. We shall have to draw in our horn^, or give the taxation fc,crew another twibt.

There seems a prospect at present of opening another branch of the Hibernian Society in the province of Auckland.