DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 21 June 1906, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) June 15. T u~ morrow lhe Bisno P g° cs to Puhoi, Rev. Father Meagher s parish, to open thj new presbytery on Sunday. A new church at Te Karaka, in Gisborne parish, of which Rev. Father Lane is pastor, is m?aring completion. & * xt VV u rF Rev ' Fatbar O'Neill, of Milton, arrived from J«.orth of Auckland this morning and left by the express for Rotorua, whesre he will stay for a few days prior to going south. The fine new brick presbytery at Onehunga is very nearly finished. It is a handsome structure and worthy of the late Very Rev. Mgr. Paul's old parish, which he loved so well. Very Rev. Father Clune and Rev. Father McDermott, Itierdemptonsts, finished their missions in this diocese last Sunday, and left for Wellington during the week. They open a mission at Nelson next Sunday. They are expected to return to Auckland in the early spring/ . . Mr. Walker, Government Assistant Inspector of Industrial Schools, visited the Industrial Schools at Takapuna and Ponsonjby and expressed himself highly pleased with all he saw and heard, there being absolutely nothing with which fault could te found. To all concerned this is gratifying. An entertainment in honor of the Rev. Father Cahill s anniversary to the priesthood was given at St Patrick, s Convent last Tuesday evening by tiie members of the Society of the Children of Mary, of which the rev. gentleman is spiritual director During the evening the guest was presented with a beau- , tiful alb, subscribed by the members of the society. . Key. Father Cahill, who is immensely popular, thanked the members for their beautiful and useful present. An enjoyable concert programme was gone through. To cay that grief pervaded Auckland last Monday when the news of Mr. Seddon's death arrived very inadequately conveys what occurred. His praises as a statesman have been well sounded, but by Catholics he will ibe kindly remembered for his noble defence of the persecuted Marist Brothers when the flood gates of bigotry and intolerance sought th-ir destruction even in the place where it was least expected, viz., Parliament. me first bell to toll in the city on receipt of the news was St. Patrick's. . At the Bishop's palace a flag was flown half-mast. The following tedegram was sent to-day by Mr. P J. Nerheny to the Hon. W. Hall-Jcnes .—At a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand District Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, held in the Hibernian Hall, Wellington street, last evening, the following resolution was carried : ' That this Council in meeting assembled place en record its profound sense of sorrow at the sudden and unexpected death of Mr Seddon, New Zealand's beloved Prime Minister and friendly societies' powerful advocate. It is with deep sorrow on behalf of the Hibernians o f New Zealand, we offer our heartfelt regret and unspeakable grief to Mrs. Seddon and family. We pray that God in His goodness may sustain and comfort her and family in this hour of unexpected bereavement.' At Waiuku last Sunday the new church was blessed and opened by his Lordship Bishop Lenihan, who delivered a very fine sermon appropriate to the auspicious occasion, takins for his text, ' They shall build Me a sanctuary, and. l shall dwell in the midst of them" In the evening a large congregation assembled. The collections totalled £26 9s &d. The cost-=of the new church amounts to £350, of which £170 has already been paid v oo.J S j a situati °n facing Kent .street, and is 54ft onn 7 a + n li W i accommodate a congregation of about 200 A tablet at the front of the church bears the following inscription : « St. Anthony's Church was Wes--sed and dedicated to the service of Almighty God by his Lordship Bishop Lenihan, on Sunday, June 15 1906 : The Rev. Donald McMillan, Rector.' The Bishop t visited Awhitu, and returned to Auckland last Wednesday evening.