DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 40, Issue 40, 1 October 1903, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

(From our own correspondent.) September 24. A general meeting of the Catholic community is to be held in the Marist Brothers' schoolroom, Pitt street,, tomorrow evening to consider what steps should be taken to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the consecration of his Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan. The anniversary falls om Sunday, November 15. I have no doubt that the outcome of the meeting will be one of unanimity to make the occasion worthy in every sense of our popular Bishop. The Rev. Father Purton, 0.5.8., was very ill last week, suffering from bronchial trouble, and his condition caused grave anxiety to his numerous friends, ibut at the time of writing he had greatly improved, and it is to be hoped that he may continue to do so. Last Sunday at St. Benedict's there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the afternoon and evening. In the evening a duet, ' Ecce Panis,' was sung by the Misses Casey. Mr. A. B. Reynolds conducted, and Mr. H. Lamb presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Fat/her Meagher. The Sisters of Mercy are inviting their old pupils to attend a reunion at St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby, tomorrow afternoon. The local branch of the H.A.C.B. Society intehds to have a stall at the forthcoming bazaar of the Sisters of Mercy. On Wednesday evening a meeting of members- of the male and female branches was held, when the matter was discussed and plans formulated in connection with the stall. Two new priests for this diocese, Rev. Fathers McMillan and Lynch, may soon be expected from Europe in Auckland. The following pupils of the Sisters of .Mercy and Sisters of St. Joseph were successful in passing the practical examination under the auspices of Trinity College, London, last week :— Senior division.— -Honors — Rita O'Sullivan (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), Alda Ralph (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby). Senior division.— Pass — Janie Amodeo (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), Gertrude Bray (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), Ellen Brown (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), singing, Josephine Kenealy (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby). Intermediate division.— Honors— Flora Gordon (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), singing, Eileen Kenealy (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby). Intermediate division.—Pass—Eileen Cullen (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), Katie Mahoney (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), Jessie Smith (St. Patrick's Convent), Mary Joseph (St. Joseph's school, Surrey Hills). Junior division. — Pass— Mary Kelly (Convent High school, Thames), Elsie MoGuire (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), Elmily B. Robertson (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), Norah Webb (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby), Myrtle Reardon (Convent High school, Thames) ; singing, George H. Woolley (St.

Leo's Academy, Devonport). Preparatory grade— PassFlora Blackburn (St. Leo's Academy, Devonport), Margaret Douglas (Convent High school, Thames), Winifred H. Hipkins (St. Leo's Academy, Devonpoxt), Mona I. Mackay (St. Leo's Academy, Devonport), Rosina F Lowe (Convent High school, Thames), Ellen Montague (Convent High school, Thames), Gertrude Daly (St Mary's Convent High school, Ponsonby), Madge Mann (St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby),, Irene O'Connor (St. Patrick's Convent). St. Mary's .Convent, Hamilton,.— Minnie Furze, G~oldie Graham, Mary Cronin Eileen O'Brien, Muriel Chitty, Rita Coyle, Hilda Floyd, Elsie Rae Miss Nellie Mahoney, senior division (pass), Mr. Joseph McGuire, intermediate (honors), and Miss Mary E. Sheahan, intermediate (pass), pupils of Miss Ada Yates, lay Catholic teacher, also passed.