DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 27, 6 July 1899, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent). June 29. Peter's Pence collection was taken up in the churches to-day, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. At Avondale the Catholics are most anxious to erect a church. Practical steps in that direction will, it is said, be probably taken in due course. The Very Rev. Monsignor Paul, V.G., is buffering from influenza The many friends of our venerable and much esteemed Vicar-dencral will }i< >pc for his speedy and complete recovery. At the Auckland Literary and Debating Society last Tuesday evening si\ essay- w»re read, the writers' names being withheld. They were excellent in character, and elicited much criticism. A mo^-t useful 1 \ ruing was sji^ut. At St. Bencdiu. s this afternoon an entertainment was given in aid ot the iunds of M. \ lucent de Paul Society. It was promoted and tond< >yd by Mr. W.Jter Kirb}, an old Auckland boy, whose splendid v nor \ nice has been chanuni/ uiu^ic lovers for the last iew months m the city. One bundled uirls and eighty-four boys are now housed in the Orphanaue at M M.iry s ami L.ike lakipuna. What a work of charity we have he;v ' Ms'<r },\ ,ry Bu'idau has been added to the staff of s ist"rs at Takapuna. M miou ot Takapuna Orphanage calls to mind the gnat success mh'eved upon this large estate by the superinteiiuiiig steward, Mr. Oolgau, whose heart and soul are in hi" work. The sh et devoted in the Auckland Sfur to • Voices from the pulpit," iii\'o d a splendid arena from which s 'veral of the parsons delight in their congeni.il task or tilting at the 'Romish Church.' Cardinal Newman -uiins, though in Ins grave, to cause them great mental worry. Tne gi—it mainspring ot the Oxford movement, we are told by one ot the-e nniii-ters. was ' deluded by a defective Hebrew s^holar-lnp.' Tue apotheo-i-> of Luther form-, another favourite tin me in • Voice-* from the pulpi'.' At St Patricks Cathidr.il last Sunday, at the eleven o'clock Mass, tic Very R v. 1). an O Reilly devot d a portiou of bis time in the pulpit to addressing 1 a number of Maoris whom he noticed in the corgn g.itiou. The Dean is as much at home, in the Maori language as in th it ol the Saxon. The natives in question had come from the! tar north. Hokianga. One of them very strangely turned out to be a former pupil, thirty-seven long years ago, ot the Dean. The ardent faith manifested by these good Maoris should be an object le-son to m.uiy of thi lr pale-faced brethren. The II. A (.1.. Society held its quarterly meeting last night. Close upon Clou was received in contributions. The Very Rev. Dean O lleillj intended, and informed the branch he was now their chaplain, and n quested the members to attend Holy Conimunio-i on Sunday, July 10. The Dean assured them that he would do all in his power to streug i hen the branch. He would earnestly desire to see every young Catholic man and woman in the Colony enrolled in the ranks or the Hibernian Society. Its very name and constitution appealed to them, and should ensure their support and sympathy.