DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 15, 13 April 1905, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) April 5. A contest far A he mayoralty of Auckland is engaging the attention of the citizens just now. Rev. Father DoJan, ot Victoria, s at present here on a holiday. Rev;. Fjat'hea: Benedict, 0.P., is still at the Mater Mu>ericora>iae Hospital. The popular Dominican is greatly missed, and the hope is widely expressed thiat he may s-oon be amongst us again. The controversy on Warner's history book contifalues. in tihe local press. No more insulting book to Catholics has e>er been used in the public schools. Up tio the present the protests have fallen flat u\pon the members of the Board of Education. The testimonial, inaugurated before tjhe death of the Very Rev. Mgr. Pa,ul, is to be carried to a s(ussessful is&,i:e, and it is the committee's intention to puslb. tihe matter ahead. Circulars to this effect are to be issued. It -is expected that a lasting memorial to the \emerable priest will be the result. At the last meeting of the local branoh of the H.A.C.B. Society a motion was carried, to be Subsequently brought before the District meeting, suggesitnig tihe desirability of introducing into the Society thirojughiout Aiusitral'asia insignia to be worm by every member, so that Hibernians wherever they meet would know eaoh other. The emblem is to be of simple design, aiiid inexpensive. The idea has m^ich to commend it. An awkward experience befel a lay Brother of the Jesuit Order tihe other clay. He was in Sydney, arid there took <a passage ticket for Adelaide. The ' Manuka ' and the South Australian bound steamer, whose name somewhat resembled the former, were lying at the same wharf, ajnld their departures fixed flor the same 'hsour. The Brother took the ' Manuka,' ant! when at sea the p/urser came round to collect the tickets lie Faumd upon looking at the Brother's ticket trfat he had got lon the wrong steamer, and was bojund not for Adelaide b,ut for Aiick/laJnfd, where he djuly arrived last S'iMiday. He returned on Monday evening to Sydney.