DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 51, 21 December 1905, Page 4

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) December 15. Rev. Father Curran, of lowa, U.S.A., arrived here by the ' Sierra ' on Tuesday. He purposes visiting Australia, and going through New' Zealand. The entertainments given by the school children during the past two weeks have been very good. This reiers particularly to the college and the primary school conducted by the Marist Brothers. ll is Lordship has been m the Waikato district since last week, and intended to return to Auckland in the early part of the week, but owing to the death of the Rev. Father Wust, S.J., he was detained. Mr Flynn, for seven years Parliamentary reporter in the House of Commons, for the Dublin ' Freeman,' and the London ' Morning Post ' and ' Pall Mall Cia/.ettc,' has been contributing excellent articles to the Auckland ' Star ' on the new Liberal Ministry. Mr. Flynn is thoroughly conversant with his subject. He is not .so sure of Mr. Bryce's enthusiasm for Home Rule, but is of Lord Aberdeen's. Re\. Father Wust, for a time in charge of the Ngawawahia and Huntly parish, died at Hamilton Hospital last Monday after a brief illness, at the age of 50 yeais. He was a native of Holland, and spent 20 }tars m missionary work in Java, and other parts of the Netherland Indies lie then returned to Holland, bul i dine to the colonies for his health, and for about two jeais lived in Auckland diocese. He was a Jesuit I Its was well liked in Waikato, where he took j?,ieat interest in music, lie was buried in Cambridge mi last Tuesday. His Lordship the Bishop and Rev. Fathers Darby, Corcoran, and Tormcy being present.— R.I P. At the distribution of prizes in connection with the Saeted Heart College at St. Benedict's Hall last Tuesday evening reference was made to the change of Government at Home Sir CJ . M. O'Rorke said that three months ago he did not expect that there would be such a gieat change of Government. lie was pleased to see that such a .strong Government had been formed, with. men like Mr. Miorley and Mr. Asq,uith in it, men In ought up in the school of the Grand Old Man, Mr. Gladstone. The speaker went on to state that it was his fum conviction that he would yet see these men fulfil the plans laid down by Gladstone for the) settlement of the Irish question and ' the most distressful country ' granted Home Rule. It was a matter for it grot that the Grand Old Man himself could not be present when Parliament met next year. The Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly expressed the opinion that there •was every reason to hope that it would not be very long before Home Rule was carried in Ireland. Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly said that all lejoiced at< the advent to power of the Liberals. Sir Maurice had expressed the feelings of the Irish people upon the subject of Home Rule Nothing, he believed, would deiight the present King more than to open their old Parliament House in College Green.

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