DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 26 May 1904, Page 4

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) May 19. The pupils of the Sacred Heart College are at present enjoying their vacation, aod resume studies towards the end of the mtonth. The numbers in this institution are increasing in a very satisfactory manner. The signs are evident of an increase in the city rates. Much needed improvements are necessary, and there is little money with which to carry them oiut. The loan placed upon the market is not being subscribed so readily, because of the low rate of interest^-4 per cent. At a complimentary social given this week to Mr. Paul Hansen, General Manager of the Auckland Electric Tramways, prior to his visiting Europe and America in the interests of his company, the chair was occupied by his Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan. Rev. Father Patterson, Adm., was also present. The Marist Brothers' primary school football team began their part in the public schools Rugby football competition last Saturday, when they defeated the Napier street school team by 27 points to nil. Mr. George Tyler, a well known New Zealand representative, is coaching both Marist Brothers' teams— the college and primary school. Mr. Patrick Darby, so long and so favorably known in this city and beyond it for his many sterling qualities, is, I regret to say, very ill. For half a century he has been known throughout Auckland, and many a heartfelt prayer for his recovery will, I am siure," ibe offered up. His son, Rev. Father Darby, came down from Hamilton to be near his father in his illness. Rev. Father Furlong, of St. Benedict's, meanwhile takes temporary charge of Hamilton during Father Darby's absence. Very Rev. Dean Liehtheart, Superior of tiie Maori Mission, left for Sydney en route to England by the 1 Mararoa ' He goes to attend the Chapter of the Order of St. Joseph at Mill Hill, London, for the purpose of electing a Superior in the place of the late Cardinal Vaughan. Rev. Fathers Patterson, Adm., Holbrook, and Kreynrborg ( Rotor ua), and your Auckland correspondent saw the Dean of!. Dean Lightheart has, by his ?eal, courtesy, and tact, won for himself countless staunch friends, not only in Auckland but throughout New Zealand. It is to be hoped that his Superiors will again send him to the land of the Maori. Wherever Dean Lightheart may be stationed he will always hasve- the prayers and good wishes of his New Zealand friends.