DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6, 8 February 1906, Page 18

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The parish schools ie-opened after the Christmas holidays on Monday. The new Catholic church at Centre Bush in the parish ol Win ton will be blessed and opened' by his Lordship the Bishop on Sunday, February 25. ■ The Rev. Fathers Carey and Murphy, ot Melbourne, arrived in Dunedin in the early part of the week and left on Tuesday for the cold lakes district. They return to Melbourne early next week. There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday from the last Mass until Vespers, after which there was the usual procesrion. The preacher in the evening was the Rev. Father Mac Donald, of Christchurch, who delivered an impressive sermon on ' Penance.' The annual schools' picnic took place at Wingatui yesterday. The children, accompanied by a goodly number of adults, Avere taUen in a special train, which left for Wingatui at a quarter to ten o'clock. An energetic committee had made very complete arrangements for the entertainment of and catering for the children. The day was fairly fine, "and young and old enjoyed themselves. A bazaar in aid of the Gore Catholic church is to be held some time about the beginning of June (says the ' Mataura Ensign '). This is the first call of such a nature that has been mad© upon the public for fully four years, and no doubt the effort to 'be' put forth will be liberally supported. At a meeting of the congregation held recently, when a bazaar was decided upon, Mrs. Poppelwell was appointed president, Miss Fraser treasurer, and Miss N. Johnston secretary.

A contingent of the Dunedin branch of the Hibernian Society, consisting of 43 members, paid a friendly visit to their brethren of the Milton branch on Saturday afternoon, January 27. A start was made at three o'clock from the Custom House Square in three drags supplied by' Messrs. Sheehy and Kelleher, of the Rink Stables. The party arrived in Milton— a distance of 36 miles— about nine o'clock. The visitors were met some miles outside the town by a number of the local members, and after reaching Milton were escorted to the branch room, where a splendid repast was partaken of Bro. J. P. Lynch, of the Milton branch, occupying the chair. ' His Holiness the Pope ' was proposed by the chairman and responded to by the Very Rev. Father O'Neill, who in an eloquent speech explained the great pleasure it gave his Holiness to see Catholic young men joining Catholic societies. Father O'Neill also extended a hearty cead mile failte to the visitors, and said he would do all he could to advance the cause of H'ibernianism in Milton. The toast of the ' Visitors ' was proposed by Bro. Lynch and responded to by Bros McDermolt, O'Connor, and Marlow ; and the ' Milton Branch,' proposed by Bro. Hally and responded to by Bros. Ducey, Horan, and Lynch. The visiting and local members in regalia, and headed by the banner of the Dunedin 'branch, tneti (at the branch .room ~at 'half-past ten on Sunday morning and marched in procession from there to the Very Rev. Father O'Neill's residence, v thence to the church to attend the eleven o'clock Mass. The procession was a long and imposing one, and will not be forgotten in Milton for some time. At three o'clock a start; was made for the return journey, and, after cheers and counter cheers were given, the visitors bade good-bye to Milton for the present, all expressing satisfaction at the hospitable manner in which they were recehed and enieriamed by the members of the Milton branch,