DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 28 May 1903, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our, own correspondent.)

May 21

The Right Rev. Mgr, Mackav passed through Auckland on Monday en route for Europe While here he was the guest of the Rev. Father Patterson, Adin , at St. Patrick's.

The concert held in the Sacred TTcavl schoolroom, Ponsnnliv, m aid of the prosbyterv debt fund, was a mo^t uniHinlified success, both in regard to the high merit of the performance generally and the attendance of the public. In the orchestra were his Lordship the Bishop ('cello) and I)r Egan (flute).

His Lordship the Bishop was at Cambridge last Sunday, having left town by the express train on Saturday

morning. He administered Confirmation to, a large number 1 hence he visits Hamilton, Rotorua, Te Aroha, and is due back m Auckland on next TViesday Hfis Lordship has received an invitation to go north to open a f ". e u V c^. lj r eh - • 1 ? 1S in Probably be the last visitation of the Bishop into the province until after winter. Dr. Neligan, the newly-appointed Anglican Bishop of Auckland, in an interview at Wellington prior to coming on here, referring to the subject of education, spoke thus : He was very glad to hear that the members of the Church of Rome felt so strongly as they did, and acted on their convictions upon the subject of elementary education. He respected any man who believed sufficiently m his religion to pay for it, and to run risks for the sake of it.

The opening of the new Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby erected by the Marist Brothers' Order, has been fixed for Sunday, June 21. A general meeting of the clergy and the laity, convened by the Bishop, is to be held on Sunday, May 31 to decide what form the opening should take. The Order has gratuitously spent upon this fine edifice the princely sum of nearly £6000. The building has now to be furnished, and this means «. further monetary expenditure. The Brothers, not unnaturally, look for assistance in this respect, and it is to -be hoped that the people, looking at the great boon they possess in the college, at no cost to themselves so far, will rally around the good Brothers and, with no niggardly hand, contribute towards the furnishing of the college with which we are all so pleased