DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 22 December 1904, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.)

December 15. At St Benedict's at the 11 o'clock Mass on Sunday his Dordsjhi-p the Bishop preached. There Was a \ery large congregation. In the evening his Lortiship was again present, when the Rev. Father Benedict, O.P. was the proaje'her. St. Benedict's is a very fine clifcirchi both exterjnally and internally, and I ami safe i-n saytag that few finer churches are to be seelh in New Zealand. Rev, FaiAier Carroll, of Melbourne, preached last Surfdvay eivemkig at St. Patrick's, aaid left the following Monjday evening ffor the Victorian capital. A well attondad meeting of St. Patrick's Day celebration committee was held in the Marist Brothers' Schoolroom, Pitt street, last Tuesday evening, Mr. J. J. O'Brien, J.P , in the chair. The Very Rev. Dr. Egan, 0.5.8., Fathers Patterson, Adm., McMillan, Holbrook,' and Dign?jn were present, and several ladies representing St. Bqnctfict's parish. The utmost enthusiasm was displayed, and a large amount of detail work was gone through. The nucleus of a sp,orts committee was set irp, while the national evening entertainment was left in the hands of Dr. Kgan, arid Messrs. R. A. Keenan, Scanl-on, and M. J. Sheahan. The tickets for the art union are to be issued forthwith.

Rev. Father Chine, C.SS.R., arrived last Tuesday morning from Australia via the souin, and will conduct the annual retreat of the religious of this diocese.