DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 42, 18 October 1900, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.)

October 11.

The annual entertainment, dramatical and musical, by th« pupils of St. Patrick's Convent Schools, will be given on Thursday, October 23, in St. Benediot'B Hall.

Brother John, Provincial of the Manet Order, spent a few days in Auckland, and left by the Maravoa last Monday for Sydney.

His Lordship the Bishop celebrated Mass at the Orphanage, Lake Takapuna, and at Devonport last Sunday morning. Dr. Lemhan stayed at the former place throughout Sunday, aud returned to the Palace, Ponsonby, on Monday morning.

The Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly while in Sydney, and at the request of his Eminence the Cardinal, preached at High Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral. Mgr. O'Reilly has returned to the Colony, and i 3 at present paying a short visit to his relatives in Napier, and is due in Auckland in a few days.

The necessary legal transfer of the Catholic Institute to the Hibernian Society, Auckland Branch, has been nearly completed. The bargain is most advantageous to the branch, which intends to renovate its newly-acquired property throughout. It will, it is thought, yield a handsome revenue.

At St. Patrick's Cathedral on last Sunday afternoon at three o'clock the children of the parish renewed their baptismal vows. They mustered a short time previously at the convent school grounds, Hobson street. With them were the orphans from the Star of the Sea Orphanage, Ponsonby, and the Confraternities of the Childron of Mary and the Guard of Honor. In processional order the whole proceeded to the Cathedral, where the Rev. Father Corcoran delivered an appropriate and short addreEß, explanatory of the vows they were about to renew. The vow of renewal waa very distinctly then read, on behalf of the children, by Miss Mary Sheahan. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament followed, p,iven by the Rev. Father O'Carroll, the appropriate music being supplied in a very creditable manner by the children. At the conclusion of the service the procession reformed and returned to the convent grounds. In the evening the church was crowded, many having to go away unable to gain admission. After Vespers Father O'Carroll delivered a fine discourse on the important subject of mixed marriages.