DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 14, Issue 24, 14 June 1906, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) June 8. The BishoiD leaves to-morrow for Waiuku, where he is to open a new church dedicated to St. Antony on Sunday. On the following Sunday he will open a new presbytery at Puhoi. The Cemetery Board hold its regular quarterly meeting last Monday evening at St. Benedict's presbytery, Very Rev. Father Gillan in the clrair. It was shown that during the last three months much work was carried out in Symonds street Cemetery. The paths were tarred and sanded, the gorse and grass cut down, and the fences fronting Symonds street and East street repaired and two coats of paint put on, the whale costing al>out £40. As the source through whioh revenue is oß>tained is limited, because the cemetery is only available to those who have relatives buried there, and the old generation is thinning down, the committee has an uphill fight to keep the place in oid-er. Under the circumstances it does very well indeed. Messrs. Larkin, Patterson, and Nerheny devote much time and attention to the work, and this may also be said of the Very Rev. Father Gillan. At the close of the public meeting of the Catholics of the city last Sunday afternoon, over which the Bishop presided, the following resolution was carried : — Mr. J. J. O'Brien, J.P., moved and Mr. Maurice

Casey, J.P., seconded that " This meeting, representative of the Catholics of the city of Auckland, heard with feelings of deep regret of the death of Mr. Michael Davit*. His work arod sufferings for the cause of Ireland are indelibly written in the hearts and memories of the Irish race. As members of that race, ' far apart from our dear li eland, we are sad at heart at the irreparable loss sustained by Mrs. Davitt, her family, and our countrymen and countrywomen through the death of Michael Davitt.' The Bishop before putting the motion spoke in sympathetic terms in regard to the late Mr. Davitt, and requested Mr. M. J. Sheahan to forward to Mrs. Davitt the resolution. The resolution has been sent, as requested, to Mrs Davitt. Very Rev. Father O'Neill, of Milton, arrived here yesterday on a visit to his sister, who is a resident of this district. His Worship the Mayor of Auckland (Mr. A. M. Myers) has kindly written a letter to the Mother General of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Sydney, in which he speaks in highly eulogistic terms of the good work accomplished in Auckland by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The terms in which the Mayor refers to the Sisters' labors does him infinite credit, and is highly complimentary to the good Sisters of St. Joseph. The work of erecting the new brick convent for the Sisters at St. Benedict's is in a Aery forw.ard state, and will shortly be ready io,r occupation. On. all sides the Bishop is receiving encouragement in his work of completing St. Patrick's Cathedral. Brother Kane, D.S. of the H. A. C.B. Society, returned from the south last Tuesday, lie \isited Blenheim, and opened new branches at llawer a and Manaia.