DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 21, 21 May 1903, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our, own correspondent.)

May 14. <• Five candidates wero admitted to the Confraternity of the Children of Mary at St. Patrick's last week. Bro. W. Beehan, district president, who attended the biennial conference of the H.A.C.B. Society at Sydney returned last Monday. He was greatly impressed with the advancement in Church and Society matters in New South Wales.

The Auckland Catholic Cemetery Board met last I-riday evening at St. Benedict's presbytery, Rev. Father Gillan m tho chair. It was decided that no work of a permanent character should be undertaken in the cemetei y until the advent of spring. His Lordship the Bishop is duo at Hamilton next Sunday, where the Rev. Father Benedict, 0.P., is at present giving a mission and preparing candidates for the holy Sacrament of Confirmation. Rev. Father Darby is m charge ot the Hamilton parish. The Bishop subsequently \isits other Waikato parishes, finally going to Rotorna.

St. Benedict s Young Men's Club on Tuesday evening hold a musical evening, at which the Rev. Father Ffcirlong presided Kov. Father Tormey was also present and warmly welcomed after his long and enforced absence. Several of the members rendered vocal items and recitations. A most onioyable evening was spent. An instructor has been obtained for the gymnasium, and next week a start in this direction is to bo made.

Mr. Moss Davis, of this city, when ho read of the burning down of the Stoke Orphanage, at once sent to our Bishop three guineas to be placed to the fund for the re-erection of the building-. Dr. Lenihan thanked the generous donor, and, with another subscription from himself, the Bishop forwarded the money to the proper qmuter. Mr. Moss Davis, who belongs to the Hebrew faith, has many a time given abundant proof of his generosity towards our institutions.

' Crime and Responsibility ' is the heading to a learler in the ' Star ' of last Tuesday in which the editor achersoly criticised Judge Denniston, of Christchurch, anent/ the latter's comments upon the ugly criminal calendar he had before him in the City of the Plains. The- ' responsibihtv ' for those repeatedly bad calendars rests in a great measure with the advocates and upholders of our present system of entirely secular education. In the present instance it reminds one of the old adage ' there is none so blind as those who will not see.'

The Very Rev. Dr. Egan, O 5.8., received news by cablo this week of the sad death of his brother-in-law, the Hon. .John T. Toohey, X.C.5.0., and member of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales. The deceased gentleman was on his way back to Sydney from Europe via America when the sad event occurred. The liite Hon. Mr. Toohey was of a genial, kindly, and charitable disposition, and was highly esteemed and respected by all with whom he came in contact. He was a foment Catholic and an ardent lover of his native land, and his place will be hard to fill. To his sorrow/ing family, in their great bereavement, widespread and genuine .sympathy will be unstintedly given. — R.I. P. In a shop window in one of' the principal streets of our city there, was exhibited last week a card upon which appeared, ' More Idolatry : Bishop Lenihan worships an image of the Virgin.' The writer of the above is a crank, of the first water. In proof of this it may bo stated that some time ago he prophesied to the day —

aye, to the very hour— the second coming of Our Lord, and forthwith, accompanied by a number of cranks like himself, he hied to Ellerslie Racecourse, where a good view of the Second Coming was to be seen. This is the ki-i 1 of fellow who comm.ts outrages cf the Imd now reported.

Rev. Father Golden, of Kaikoura, has ■written me under date April 6 from Chicago, and says : ' Here I am, after a long journey by sea and land. I landed In San Francisco on March 24, the voyage having been very pleasant and favorablp to my health, though an occasional relapse gave me some trouble. The same happened in vSan Francisco, but the attack was not very serious. I visited Vancouver (British Columbia) and saw my brother there. He had been very dangerously ill, but I found him better than I expected. After a very long and tiresome journey by train from Vancouver I arrived here yesterday, Palm Sunday, and will leave in a few days for Buffalo and Philadelphia, where I expect to be with my relatives on Easter Sunday. . . I hopo to see my friends in New Zealand soon again.