DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 36, 4 September 1902, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From onr own correspondent.)

August 28. The Boer boy to whom I have already referred is named Charles Patrick Crowley, the father beh-g an Irishman, the mother a Boer. He continues to attract much attention in the city. His Lordship the Bishop proceeded to the Orphanage, Lake Takapuna, last Saturday evening, where he celebrated Mass on Sunday, and stayed until Monday morning, when the returned to town. The local branch of the H.A.C.B. Society will approach the Holy Table in a body at the 9 o'clock Mass next Sunday morning at St. Patrick's. The officers will provide a breakfast after Mass for the members in St. Patrick's Hall. - The half-yearly meeting of the N.Z. District (No. 3) of the H.A.C.B. Society took place la°t evening in the Hibernian Hall. The district President, Bro. B. Stead, presided, As tho business had not concluded at 10.30, it was decided to adjourn tho meeting nntil Friday evening. ' The Romish Church ' is the term applied by a local editor to the Church when writmg this week of the school trouble in France. One would think that such opprobrious language was reserved solely for ' pious, glorious and immortal ' gatherings, and not to editorial columns of a daily journal. Mr Leslie, the new Registrar of Friendly Societies, has returned several names of officers of the H.A.C.B. Society to the District Secretary, Bro W. Kane, stating that he refused to recognise them because they were not guaranteed according to law. This should act as a salutary warning to branches. Jean Gerardy, the famous Belgian 'cello player, rendered two bolob at St. Patrick's last Sunday mo-ning. They were an ' Aye Maria' by Bach and an • Aye Maria' by Gounod, both of which were performed with a skill and devotion that shall ever remain in the memories of thoee who libteued to them, Herr Gottfried Galeton accompanied on the organ, and such a combination has rarely been heard here. Rev. Father Hickson, S M., Reef ton, has written to the District Executive of the H.A C B. Society to the effe t that the conditions are favorable for the inauguration of a branch of the eoci( (y there. The officers are to attend to the matter at once. This will make four blanches of the society on the West Coast. The Key. Father Ahem, of Pukekohe, Auckland provincial district, wno attended the last meeting of the Auckland branch, aleo thought a branch could be formed, with every prospect of success, in his extensive parish. This is good news, because we cannot have too many branches in the Colony of this excellent Catholic society. A copy of the following letter has been pent to tho Rev. Father Patterson, Ad m., St. Patrick's, and to the Rev. Father Benedict, O.P. :— • Dear Rev. Father,— l take this opportunity of thanking your Reverence most heartily in the name of all the Austrian residents of the Colony for the beautiful sermou delivered at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday last on the occasion of the birthday celebration of his Imperial and Apostolic Majesty the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, Francis Joseph I.— l have the honor to be your Reverence's most obedient servant, F. Langgoth Außtro-Hungarian Consul.' '