DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 4, 26 January 1899, Page 28

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspo^ eofc -) January Kehoe, O'Gallagher, Mulvihill, Am»SoSnf 'O^B, Breßsers, Schoonhof, Holierhoek Van Dyk, Kreymborg Bey. Fathers Purton, Broomfield, and Luck were unavoidably •^iVryTm^or^nbjects were treated with at the Synod, the deliberation of which evoked most interesting, discussions. The suSecte which were to be dealt with at the general Synod m Wellington were placed before the Synod and lengtinly discussed. The important matters of primary and secondary education were brought (forward, and resolutions* the direction of advancing them were carried. At 7 a.m. on Friday, in the convent chapel, his Lordship ctESed Pontifical High Mass. Bey Father Moore, SJ., nreached an earnest and eloquent sermon. In the afternoon the SuwSstsJXX.k place in the convent chapel. Four Deans were appointed for the diooese-viz., Very Bey. Mons. Paul, Dean for the r?t^- Velv Bey Moaa. M'Donald, Dean, South Auckland District ; Vefyßev^Xr O'Beilly, Dean/Eastern Auckland District ; Very Bey. Father Lightheart, Dean, Maori Districts. *

The Rev. Father Dawson has been compelled through ill health to relinquish charge of St. Pi*riok% Cathedral. During Christmas and after he was confined closely to his room. He has since gone to recruit his health at Cambridge, and when he feels equal to it, he purposes taking a long sea voyage. His Lordßhip the Bishop, on Sunday last, Feast of the Holy Name, during the celebration of Pontifical High Mass, used for the first time in the Cathedral the beautiful crosier lately presented to him by the good priests of the Dunedin Diocese. It was much admired. The Very Bey. Dean O'Reilly will, after Easter, assume the charge of St. Patrick's Cathedral. In this church the popular Dean, during the sixties, was ordained priest, and was for a long time associated with it. Bishop, now Archbishop, Croke, when over the Auckland dioceee, appointed Dean O'Reilly to the Thames parish, where he has laboured assiduously ever since. During the recent Synod the Very Rev. Dean was also appointed Chancellor of the Diocese. The Bishop, leaving by the 'Friroo mail boat on Saturday, March 18, will be enabled to stay a month in the States, thence reaching Ireland before the long vacations in the seminaries and colleges in June. It is the Bishop's intention to visit them and procure, if possible, more priests for our diocese. His Lordship expects to return to New Zealand early in 1900. It was quite a pleasure to witness the large number of priests assembled at the Betreat last week, particularly the venerable old 1 soggarth aroons," whose presence recalls many happy associations and reminiscences. Another and striking feature of the gathering was its international character, reminding one very forcibly of the Catholicity of our dear old church. Foremost, of course, were the representatives of the Inland of Saints, togethenvith representatives from England, Scotland, the land of the Kaiser, Italy, France, New Zealand, and from the country of the aluggish Maas. A truly remarkable ecclesiastical assemblage. A oircular signed by the Very Bey. Mons. McDonald has been sent throughout the diocese. Its object is to raise a sufficient sum for presentation to the Bishop ere he departs for the Northern hemisphere. A vituperative temperance orator, a Methodist clergyman from Victoria, has publicly assailed some of the looal Anglican clergymen, charging them with intemperance. There is no one so intemperate in language as some of these temperance deolaimers. • An appeal for Ireland,' soliciting monetary aid for the cause, has been issued in the form of a leaflet printed in green ink, by the looal branoh of the Irish National Federation and signed by the Hon. J. A. Tole, president ; Rev. Father Croke, hon. treasurer ; and Mr. M. Sheahan, hon. secretary. Dr. Egan has been, I regret to say, confined by illness during this week to his room. This was due to a chill contracted last Sunday Mr. Arthur G. Murphy, a young gentleman well known in Dunedin, and a member of St. Patrick's choir, Auckland, has succeeded in winning the gold medal at the Exhibition, presented by the authorities for the best tenor singer. Rev. Father Hills, S.M. of St. Patrick's College Staff, Wellington, who is spending his holidays here, has, during Father Gillan's absence at the Synod in Wellington, taken charge of the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby. He will also minister at the Convent, and Little Sisters of the Poor, duties which are performed by the Bishop.