DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 44, 1 November 1900, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.)

October 2">. His Lordship the Bishop will very :-oon commence his visitations throughout the diocese. The Catholic Cemetery Board has appointed Mr Walker as Bexton of the hyrnond street cemetery. ' ""' Mr Hennery, deceased. Theladiesof theOathedral parirh have held a preliminary meeting to consider matters regarding the annual Christmas entertainment, and what form it will take this year. At a meeting Inst Sunday evening of the church committee of St. Benedict's parish, pr< «idcd over by Rev. Father Gillan. the question of the erection of anew convent in the Mcinity of St. Benedict':- was dh-cu-'sed at length. His Lordr-hip the Bmhup ctlebnted Miss last S aid ly at tie Orphanage, Luke Takapuna, and subsiquently at St. Francis de Bales' Church, Devonport. H<3 returned to the city late in the afternoon. The Very Rev. Dean Lighthrart, who hal temporilly officiated at the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsouby, during the Veiy Rev. Dr. Egan's absence, has returned to his own district. The local branch of the Hibernian So< iety has completed the necessary legal formaLti> s m connection with the taking over of the Catholic Institute. The branch intends to renovate and improve the buildi g, which will in tuture be know n as 'The Hibernian Hall.' A meeting of ladies i« convened for to-morrow evenii,^ at the Convent School, Hobson street, for the purpose of working up the bazaar which some tune ago it was decided to hold m connection with the golden jubilee of the arrival in New Zealand of the Sisters of Mercy. It is to be sincerely hoped that success will crown their efforts. The district executive of the HAO.B. Society has received a communication from 1! rot hers John Tuohy, Paramatta. Sydney. and James Mulally. Richmond, Victoria, requesting it to send a delegate to a conference to be held in Sydney on Thursday. November 1, to consider and formulate a basis for the solidification of the Society throughout Australasia, the suggestions to be laid (1) before the district board meetings and (2) before theannutl meeting to be held iv April, l'.tUl. Alter the High Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral on last Sunday, a presentation, consisting of a gold eros* suitably inscribed ami a silk-corded ncarf, was made to Mr .James Ford upon his letirement after many years service from the office of master of ceremonies at the Cathedral. The Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly, at the request of the altar boys, kindly consented to make the presentation, and said that before he came to St. Patrick's he had heard good reports of Mr Ford, and since hi.s recent connection with the Cathedral he was pleased to say that ha co-ild fully endorse these reports. M_t. O'Reilly concluded by saying that although the altar boys were losing their master of ceremonies, yet it was f-ome satisfaction to know that he would be still rendering good work in the choir, and would also continue to be head teacher of the catechism classes. Mr Ford thanked M^r. O'Reilly, the Rev. Fathers Corcoran and O'Carroll (who were present), and the altar boy a for their valuable prenents, which he would ever cherish.