DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 8 June 1899, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent).

June 1. Rev. Father Purton has wired from Gisborne that there is an improvement in Father Mulvihill's condition. To-day, the Feast of Corpus Christi, the early Masses were well attended. It is pleading to see so many in the morning twilight fulfilling their religious obligations. The Little bister^ of the Poor desire to acknowledge the receipt of ten shillings, to obtain a favour through the intercession of St. Anthony, Irom <ii anonymous donor, and to return, therefore, their most sincere thank.-. I regret to state that one of the Little Sisters is dangerously ill. The Very Rev. Father Hackftt. gave an intcrf-ting ard amusing lecture upon ' Irish \\ n and Humour i,iti ly at Waihi in aid of the parm Inal funds. Die subjeoi \w-> pLuu m good hand*, a~> the rev. «_:< niuiiicin abemi.ds i • tv a v, it and humour for winch hi*, c'liri-hi'd ii.unu land 1-- so union-. Tut Rev. father Tuckwell. now labouring in Paris, and whose conv(i-ion throu cc _ r h i c power ol the Holy Ro-ary was recently chronicled m tue N.Z. 'lahlkt. w\.s at one time a curate at St. PatriokV C.ith'jdr.il, Auckland. Mon-ignur M'Do - .Id was at the time in cLajge ol fan |un-li. iind had i >,der him Fathers Tuckwell, and Ler.ilian (now tin* R._-at Rev. Di. Lenihan, Bi-,hop of the Diocese). His Evcellerk'y the Govciiiot . , ce-Miipamt dby hi^ a uh -at -< amp, Captain Ward. \WU'U tin 'Ma: ( t tne "x.i O-phanagc. Pousonby. on Tuesday The> u< k> in umd ly ihi \irylu v. Di-.m O Rcilly, Rev. Fathers Gillan ;.nd Buckhy. and tlw 'At v. Moth t. and Mother de Chantcl. Supenores-, of the Home. The (Jo\ i rnor took the deepest interest in all mattirs explained to him. and complimented the good Sisters upon the high excellence attained by the institution. ' Do not allow your ministers ot religion to touch your education system.' This was uttered at a public meeting in Auckland by the garrulous member for ChrMehurch City. Mr. T. E. Taylor. Surrounding him on the platform were a number of parsons. This catch-cry tickled the eais of the crowd, and earned rounds of applause. Later on, and with an air of importance, this tyro assured his hearers that 'the Pn mier was the biggest, humbug he had ever met.' If this weic so, Mr. f-eduem has not far to seek for a bird of leather. Brothers John Patterson. D.P.. Da-.iol CVSullivan, DV.P., and P. J. Nerheny, P. U.P , proceeded List wt -k to P.itid.i to enquire into the causes which led to the hviluie of St. J.inie-. branch oi the H.A.C.B Society established under \eiy f.-uoiuabU 1 conditions some time back. Ihe disnict ollicirs bruin I . :t home with them the regalia, books, etc., of the dilunct branch. An ttt'oit is now being made to atliliate the residue of the Pacroa branch to that at the Thames. In this it is to be e;untsily hoped the executive will succeed. In the Coromandel Count /X< v of May nth, a letter appears over the signature, 'Max I). Km,.' in \\huh ihc wntor highly eulogii-es the management oi the local ho-piul by t no good Si^teis ot Mercy. The nursing is done gratuitous) under the supervision of a Sister specially trained for lu spiral woik in i j. The elliciency of the work is testifit dto by the communily. Thy chairman ot the Boaid said it was 'practical Cinjstiamt).' Lopite of all this testimony there are those in Coromandel who would deprive the poor sufferers the comfort of tlvse ' ministering angels.' Tte letter is an admirable one, and shows dually the wnole-heamd devotion put into this laudable work by the self-sacrificing Sisters of Mercy.