DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 11 January 1900, Page 19

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

Mr John Cleary, brother of the editor of the N.Z. Tablet, has arrived in Dunedin on a holiday tour of the Colony. The Very Rev. John Ryan, S.J., left Dunedin towards the end of last week for Melbourne. The Rev. Father Moloney, S.M., of St. Patrick's College, leaves Dunedin to-day (Thursday) on his return journey to the Empire City. The Very Rev. Canon Franklin was a passenger by the Waikare on the trip to the West Coast sounds. During the stay of the steamer at Port Chalmers Canon Franklin called on the clergy at the Bishop's Palace, Dunedin. Mr A. Vallis, organist of St. Joseph's Cathedral, who left for Europe on a holiday tour some months ago, has returned to Dunedin and resumed his duties. The Rev. Fathers Ryan and O'Malley, who had been secured for the Diocese of Dunedin by his Lordship Bishop Verdon when in Ireland some months ago, arrived in Dunedin on Wednesday morning by the Talune from Melbourne. A meeting of the Catholics of Dunedin and suburbs will be held in St. Joseph's Hall, on Friday evening, for the purpose of making: arrangements for the due reception of his Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Verdon on his return from Europe. His Lordship is expected to arrive here on April 8. The bazaar, which was held at Middlemarch in aid of the building fund of the Catholic Church, has been a great success for so small a centre of population, the net proceeds amounting to jEIOo. This result was due principally to the zeal of the stallholders and their assistants, and to the work of the energetic secretary, Mr. Michael Moynihan. The Rev. Father Lynch and the Catholic body desire to express their cordial acknowledgment of the generous and friendly aid given, an! the kindness shown by their non-Catholic neighbpurs. The plana for the new church are bein? now prepared, and it is expected that the work will be started shortly. The Sisters of Mercy, South Dunedin, gratefully acknowledge receipt of the sum of £.1 3s from his Lordship Bishop Grimes, £1 Is from the Yen. Archpriest Walsh, Westport, and £1 from 'A Friend,' Lawrence.