DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 1 June 1899, Page 4

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(By telegraph from our own correspondent.)

May 29.

A convent school is to be opened i^Jtrisborne next month. The Very Key. Dean O'Reilly goe^ down *to perform the ceremony. The Rev. Father Kehoe has returned from Waikato, much benefited by his sojourn in the country. A cable message was received on Sunday last by the Very Rev. Dean O'Ueilly from His Lordship Bishop Lenihan, announcing his safe arrival in London. An entertainment was given, on Tvesday night, by the pupila of the Parnell Convent school, in honor of the return of the Rev. Mother from Australia. Rev. Father Kehoe was present. The Rev. Father Mulvihill. of Gisborne, is still, I regret to say, dangprcusly ill, and widt.-pread sympathy is felt for him by the Cai holies of Auckland. Tne llev. Father Purton left for Gisborne, on Tnur&day last, to officiate during Father Mulvihill'a illness. The appeal made lately by the Very Roy. Father Lightheart wa < tor the Maori Mission, throughout New Zealand, in accordance with the resolution pasi-ed at the Provincial Council held recently in Wellington. At Saint Benedict'?, on last Sunday night, the Rev. Father Gill.m concluded his course of sermons on the Blessed Virgin, after which an act of consecration to Our Lady was read by one of the chiltren on behalf ot all those present, after which there was a procession of the Blessed Sacrament. The church was crowded and the ceremonies were most impressive. Benediction, by the Rev. Father Gillan, assisted by Rev. Fathers Darby and Kainp, followed.