DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 12, 22 March 1906, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) March IG. The Hibernians will held their general Communion on Sunday, March 25, to commemorate St. Patrick. His Lordship the Bishop will re-open the Rotorua church on the 25th rns-t. This pretty little church has been greatly enlarged and improved. The sad news comes to hand from Gisborne of the serious illness of Rev. Father Mulvihill, who has .so zealously labored in that district for several years. The work of the Sisters of St. Joseph at Whangarei is being properly appreciated. Over seventy children are now attending the school, which was opened only a few weeks ago. The Very Rev. Fabher Clune, O.SS.R., is at present in Ellcrslie, conducting a missicn which is to close on next Sunday morning. Rev. Father McDermott, C.SS.R., is conducting a mission at Onehunga. h. mission will bp opened at Te Aroha on Sunday, March 25. His many friends will sympathise with the Very Rev. Father Clune, C.SS.R., in the loss he has sustained in the death of his aged father, news oT which arrived in Auckland on Wednesday. His Lordship the Bishop made feeling reference to the sad event on Thursday at the Ellerslie mission. • St. Patrick's Day celebrations begin to-night with a national concert in the Federal Hall, at which the Mayor of Auckland, his Lordship the Bishcp and clergy will bo present. To-morrow the usual procession will be held, and sports in the Domain for the adults and children. On Sunday evening Very Rev. Father Qlune preaches on St. Patrick, when the Hibernians will be present. St. Benedict's parishioners go to Motntapu Island.