DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 19, 10 May 1906, Page 5

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our owi oorre&pomdaat.) May 4. His Lordship Dr. Lenihan returned from Waihi last Tuesday. Rev. Father Murphy, recently ordained for this diocese, arrived last Sunday by the ' Mannika ' from Sydney. He is a native of County Wexford. At nine o'clock Mass, which was celebrated by the Rev. Father Holbrook at St. Patrick's last Sunday morning, the nvembers of Ihe Marist Brothers' Old Boys' Association, to the numiber of sixty-five, approached the Holy Table in a body. After Mass they assembled at the convent school, Hobson street, where breakfast was served by the young lai>es of the parish. Rev. Brother G,eorge presided, and delivered a nice speech to the members. Rev. Father Holbrook (chaplain), and Messrs. W. Tole and Walter Darby also briefly spoke.

His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Grimes, of Christchurch, arrived here last Tuesday morning. He was met on ariival by Rev. Father Hoi brook, in the absence of the Bishop, who was away in Wa^hi. Dr. Grimes drove at once to the Bishop's palace, (where he will stay while in Auckland. Dr. Grimes preached at St. Patrick's in the evening before a crowded congregation. Before the Bishop began his sermon he referred feelingly to the death of the late deeply lamented Dean Foley, and the great lindness shown him by Dr. Lenihan, his piiests, and the good Sisters of Mercy at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. He would always feel indebted to Auckland for its kind treatment of Dean Foiley, to whom he, his priests, and people were greatly indebted, and for whom they deeply mourned. He (the Bishop) had resolved that if evier it came his way 'to show hiu appreciation to Auckland he would do so. When, therefore, fie received a wire from Father Holbrook in the name of the Bishop and priests of St. Patrick's at one of the ports en route north, he felt he could not refuse, hence his appearance in the pulpit. The Bishop then delivered a fine discourse upon ' The Love of the Good Shepherd.' It was a splendid sermon, and one calculated to impress all those fortunate co have heard it. Pontifical Benediction followed.