DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 15, 12 April 1900, Page 19

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

The Sisters of Mercy, South Dunedin, gratefully acknowledge receipt of £1 from 'A Friend,' L iwrenoe, for the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage, and £1 for St. Anthony's Mread. Entertainments of welcome to Bishop Verion were given at St. Joseph's School on Friday and at the N. E. Valley School on Monday. An address, presentation, and entertainment are also to be tendered to his Lordship by the pupils of the Dominican High School on Friday of Easter week. The attendance at the Catholic school opened at the Bluff by the Dominican Nuns on February 19 is steadily increasing week by week and now stands at about 50. Energetic preparations are now being made for a bazaar which is to take p ace at the Bluff in June in aid of the funds of the handsome new church which was erected there towards the close of 1897.

Last week the Dunedin Tramway Company discarded the advertisements of Slattery and the female impostor that accompanies him and declined to ' hang them out ' any more upon their cars. As in the ca<*e of the refusal of Dunedin daily papers to receive his advertisements, Slattery vented his feelings in a furious cironlar distributed broadcast through the city. At the ceremonies in St. Joseph's Cathedral this (Holy Thursday) morning his Lordship the Ci^hop was celebrant, the Ri<>ht Rev. Monsignor Mackay as-istant priest, Very Rev. Derm Burke and Very Rev. Father O'Neill deacons at the throne. Father J. Ryan deacon, Father Headen subdeucon. and Father Murphy master of ceremonies. A large number of the clergy of the diocese »i-*i<tt'd. On Good Friday th.' Pawon will b<- mug h v the Very Rev. Father O'Neill and Fathers J. Ryan and Headen. 'J he pre ichers appointed for Holy Week are the Wry Rev. Dean Burke and Father O nounell of Queen^town. Gounod's, ' Mes«e !*ol- nn«lle ' will be rendered by the Cathedral Choir on Latter Sunday at the 11 o'clock Ma«. One of the most bejutiful presentations received by BUhop Verdon on his return from Europe was a magnificent prie-dieu, sent by the Sisters of Mercy, South Dun-din.