DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 35, 27 August 1903, Page 18

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The opening of St. Dunstan's Church, Clyde, has been fixed for the third Sunday of October. The ceremony will be performed by his Lordship the Bishop. Recent news from Ireland reports that the Right Rev. Mgr. Mackay paid a visit, whilst in Dublin, to the Dominican Priory, at Sion Hill, where he met the Rev. James Liston, of Dunedin, who was also on a visit to this well-known educational institution. Mrs. P. Murtagh, who had been a member of the choir of the Catholic Church, Gore, during the past 13 years, was on Thursday night of last week, prior to her departure to North Otago, presented by the members of the choir with a handsome biscuit barrel. The Rev. Father Buckley arrived in Auckland from Sydney on Monday last by the Mararoa. The Rev. Father will pay visits to relatives on his way to Dunedin, where he will arrive shortly. Rev. Father William Corcoran, a young priest recently ordained for the diocese in Thurles College, will be leaving for New Zealand in September, and is expected to reach Dunedin in November. The health of the Rev. Father McGrath, of Port Chalmers, has been so unsatisfactory, especially since his recent severe attack of pneumonia, that he intends 1 to take a rest from active parochial work. The Rev. Father has received his Lordship's permission for leave of absence), and will proceed to Ireland at an early date. Father McGrath's many clerical and lay friends throughout the diocese will wish him a complete restoration to health and vigor and a speedy re,turn to the sphere of missionary work with which he has been so long, honorably, and usefully associated.

The Very Rev. Dean Lightheart, Superior of the Maori missions in the diocese of Auckland, is at present in the Lawrence parish, where the appeals on behalf of the nobje work of himself and his confreres are meeting with a gratifying measure of support. On Sunday last Dean Lightheart preached at Lawrence and Waitahuna, when there were large congregations present. His appeals met with a generous response, due in no small measure to the notice of his coming which was given by the Very Rev. Mgr. O'Leary on the previous Sunday We understand that Dean Lightheart will, through the kindness of the Very Rev. Father O'Neill, shortly pay a visit to Milton in the interests of his struggling missions.