DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 10, 10 May 1900, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.) May 3. Month of May devotions were inaugurated on Monday evening in the city churches. The faithful attended in good numbers. The mural tablet to the late Very Rev. Monsignor McDonald, of which I wrote in my last letter, was unveiled in the Panmure church last Sunday. The Auckland branch of the H.A.C.B. Society has decided to approach the Holy Table in a body on Sunday, May 20, at St Benedict's Church. Mrs. J. J. O'Brien and Miss Mahoney have been appointed hon. treasurer and hon. secretary respectively of the Sisters of Mercy'B ex-pupils committee. Commandant Olivier, whose name figures prominently as a present Boer leader, was for many years a resident of Auckland, and writes regularly to a friend here, lie is an Englishman and a native of Birmingham. The ex-pupils of the Sisters of Mercy hold a meeting yesterday afternoon. It was unanimoudy decided to mark in an especial manner their high appreciation of the good work of the Sisters in days gone by at this most opportune time of the celebrations of the golden jubilee of their arrival in this Colony. The Very Rev. Father Hackett, when in town last Monday, showed me two fine photographs of the new school lately opened under the supervision of the Sisters of St. Joseph at Paeroa. The appointments and plan of the school are second to none in the province of Auckland. The Very Rev. Dean O'Reilly read at all the Masses at the Cathedral last Sunday the pregnant and forcible resolution passed fct the late Provincial Synod in Wellington upon the duties of Catholics in sending their children to Catholic schools. The Dean on each occasion supplemented the reading of the resolution with an appeal to parents to do their duty in this matter. It is to be hoped that the Dean's exhortation and timely counsel will bear fruit. At Helensville next Sunday a religious ceremony, which is exciting muoh interest, will take place— viz, the blessing of the enlarged portion of the local church. The Rev. Father Brodie is the priest in charge, and be has shown great zeal and earnestness in the propagation of good works in his very extensive parish, of which Helensville forms a part. The Very Rev. Dean O'Reilly will perform the ceremony, and a strong choir from the city, under Mies Annie Lorrigan, will attend.