DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 26 April 1906, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph from our own correspondent.) April 23. Very Rev. Father Clune is conducting a mission at Opotiki. His Lordship the Bishop will administer Confirmation next Sunday in Waihi, and hold a visitation. The foundation. stone of tl c new convent at St. Benedict's, Auckland, will be laid, on Sunday week. A general Communion of the members of the Marist Brothers Old Boys' Association takes place next Sunday at the Cathedr-al. Rev. Father William Murphy, >a native of Wexford, recently 'ordained at All Hallows College, Dublin, arrives in Auckland next Sunday. Lieutenant Hodgson, before the departure of H.M.S. ' Prometheus ' (the crew rf which is en route 'for England), wrote to the clergy of the Cathedral, thanking them and Father Clune lor attention and kindness to himself and men -whilst here. There was a large -congregation at the Church of the Assumption, Oneuunga, on Sunday morning. The Rev. Father Mahoney cele-Lirated Mass, after which Ins Lcruship Bishop Lenihan administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 50 girls, 30 boys, and six, adults. At three o''doc3c in t/hel-a*ie ;n..|on his Lmd-ship laid the foundation stone of thi> new presbytery about to be erected for Rev. Father Mahoney in Albert street. 'There was a larj-e attendarre, including fathers Edce, Holbrook, and Mahoney. The collection taken up at' the conclusion of the ceremony realised a s'-m of £40 The contract for the presbytery has been let tn Messrs. Peacock and Co. at the price of £1125, ?nd Mr. Mahoney, of Auckland, \is the architect. The bui'dine; will be of brick, two storeys hi h, md will contain thirteen rooms. The Very Re-. Dr. Ks;an, O.S 8., leaves for the south to-day, en route for the Old C wintry fora holiday. At the Saerel Heart schoolroom, Ponsonby yesterday mrrnin", deform a large gathering of his congregation and othnr fri nds, he was presented with a ohecye as an appreciation of his sterling work in Auckland during the past 21 years. Mr. P. Bryant made the presentation, and eulogistic speeches were also made by Messrs D. Flynn, Kane, Darby, S. Adams, and J. Fuller. The altar boys presented Dr. Egan with a handsome dressing case, an*! during the last week he was the rrciment of several hnnd'-ome presents from, the children of the Sacred Heart -School, of Mercy Children of Mary, and Sacred Heart' College