DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 17, 24 April 1902, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

From our own correspondent.) April 10. His Lordship Dr. Lenihan left this morning for the Northern Wairoa district, where he will conclude the mission now being given by the Very Rev. Father Benedict, 0.P., and also administer Confirmation. The Cemetery Board has given permission to a firm of monumental masons to carry on business upon a portion of the unused part of the cemetery, the revenue from which is to be devoted to its beautifying and keeping in order. A very successful concert was given last Tuesday evening in the Sacred Heart schoolroom, PonHonby. The programme was a really excellent one, every item of which was heartily appreciated by the large audience which, despite the inclement weather, had assembled. Dr. Span devotes the proceeds to parochial purposes. [This letter arrived too late for insertion in our last issue.]

April 17. The drawing of the art union in connection with St. Patrick's Day celebration is to take place this evening. The prizes won were distributed last Friday evening to the successful competitors. The new church at Waihi, for which Father Brodie and his people have so long and persistently labored, will be dedicated and opened next Sunday by his Lordship Dr. Lenihan. The Auckland branch of the H.A.C.B. Society, at its meeting last night, decided to join with the other friendly societies in Auckland in establishing a Friendly Societies' Dispensary. The question was discussed at great length before a decision was arrived at. The discontinuance of the daily southern mail arriving at Onehunga is a source of great inconvenience to the public generally. It causes a day's and sometimes two days' delay in the delivery of the Tablet in Auckland. His Lordship Dr Lenihan returned last Monday afternoon from the Northern Wairoa. He administered Confirmation to a large number of children and adults. The Very Rev. Father Benedict, 0.P., who has been hard at work giving missions in the towns on the river, assisted the Bishop. The presence of his Lordship in the North evoked the keenest delight amongst his flock up there. The chairman of the Auckland Education Board is not in favor of the inspection of private schools by the board's inspectors. Of course he is not, and only for the force of public opinion and for very shame's sake he would probab'y prevent it. The truancy question and its connection with private schools have engaged attention here during the past week, and in discussing the matter the chairman got off his inspection hobby. The following is the list of pupils of St. Leo's Academy who were successful at the Trinity College Music Examinations •— Senior— Florence M. Cogan 70. Intermediate honors— lvy Wynyard 60, Dolly Munro 75, Nellie Fuljames 66. Intermediate pass— Blßie Fraser 81, Helena Fuljames 75, Agnes Smith 64 junior honors— Ella le Huguet 69, Ethel B. Nairn 60, Agnes Smith 66 Kathleen Wynyard 60. Junior pass— Ernest Bailey 66, Gladwin Bailey 67, Winifred Boylan 70, May Dickey 91, Ell?, le Huguet 94 Alberta Munro 71, Jennie Syme 73, Mildred Munro 82. Junior (practical) — May Dickey. Last Monday evening the pupils of St. Leo's Academy gave a most successful entertainment in the Foresters' Hall, Devonport The building was crowded in every part. In the audience were Rev. Fathers Purton, O.S 8., Buckley, McGuiness, Mclntoah, Russell, and O Hara. The programme was as follows :— Duet (3 pianos), Masters Lander, Bailey, G. Bailey, Miases D. Boylan, McLean, M. Wynyard, orchestra ; chorus (with orchestral accompaniment) ; duet (3 pianos), Misses Fraper, Wynyard, Henson, Fuljames, Duder ; action Bong ; concerted piece (two mandolines and guitar), Misses Cunningham and Henßon, Mr. Lawrence ■ vocal solo, Miss M. Knight; duet (3 pianos), Misses I. Wynyard, le Huguet, Fuljames, Nairn, Boylan, Munro ; chorus and dance ; duet (3 pianos), Misses K. Wynyard, Munro, le Huguet, Fuliames, Henson, Thomas, orchestra ; rocal solo, Miss M. Knight ; banjo solo, Mr. Lawrence. The second part consisted of the fairy extravaganza, ' Aladdin : the Wonderful Scamp, 1 in which the cast of characters was as follows :— Aladdin, Miss Maud Peacooke ; Widow Twankey, Miss Clarice Campbell ; Emperor of China, Miss Fuljames ; Grand Vizier, Mies Millar ; Pekoe (son of Vizier), Mies K. Wynyard ; Princess Balrouboudour, Miss Ethel Thomas ; magician,

JJf J? W ; , Bpin ' of Iam P> Miss Daisy James ; spirit of ring, Miss F ora McLean ; first mandarin. Miss Ethel Nairn Mr P. F. Hiscocks actei as conductor and Mr. Alf. Bartley as accompanist So successful was the entertainment that by request it wSa repeated last evening with equally succes B ful results