DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 19, 19 July 1906, Page 18

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) July 13. Right Rev. Mgr. Macliay ' left for the South last Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Father Corcoran left for Sydney last Monday on a holiday. Dr. Neligan, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, delivered a lecture on the • English Education Bail ' now before the Imperial Parliament. He was denied the use of a hall oontrolled by certain local religiouu bodies unless he ' changed his subject.' His Lordship the Bishop has sufficiently reccv. ered his health to enable him to resume his numerous and pressing duties. Last Sund a y though the weather was anything but, propitious, he made his annual visitation to Otahuhu, where he administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to forty candidates. In addition he administered the pledge of tot a' abstinence from alcoholic drink ta all present under the age of twenty-one until they had attainedthat age. At St. Patrick's Cathedral last Wednesday morning a solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated for the repose of the soul of the late deeply lamented Rev. Father Benedict, 0.P., it being the first anniversary of his death. Rev. Father HolbiooTc was celebrant, and Rev. Fatheis Cahill and Murphy deacon and subdesacon respectively. His Lordship the Bishop presided, and there were present Very Rev. Father Lightheart, Very Rev. Father Gillan, and Rev. Fathers Kehoe, Buckley, Furlong, McMillan, Duffy, Edge, and Molloy, and a good attendance of the laity. After the Mass the Bishop ga\e the absolution. At the usual Uuly orgie of the saKron-sashed enthusiasts the following resolution was (the press informs us) unanimously carried : — ' That this meeting of Auckland Orangemen hereby wishes to express its heartfelt confidence in the Honorable Hall- Jones, and urges upon him to retain his position as Premier, for which he is eminently fitted, as being in Ihe beat interests of the government of New Zealand.' The meaning and object of this resolution are \ery obvious. One of our members, who had just returned from Wellington, has told me that a deputation bearing a resolution upon the same line. i was demied an interview by the Hon. Hall- Jones. The demise has taken place at Onehunga of Mr. William Shaldrick, at the age of 73. Deceased was an old colonist, having arrived in New Zeatajid in the fifties. He was born in 1831 at Kingslynn, Norfolk. At the age of 21 he arrived in Auckland. For some time he worked at the historic windmiil, which until recently demolished was one of the landmarks of Auckland, Subsequently he went to Onehunga, and 9erved at one ;of commissariat department on the West Coast during the Maori War. He was also one of the original coastguards of Onehunga. The funeral took place at Onehunga last Wednesday afternoon, and though the weather was bitterly cold and wet there was a great number present, many going out from the city and surrounding districts. The remains were borne to the Church of the Assumption, where the Rev. Father Mahoney read the burial service which was concluded at the grave close by the church where the interment took place. — R.I. P. The following appeared in the ' Auckland Star ' of last Tuesday evening :— ' A committee of Catholic clergy repsesenting the archdiocese of Wellington will meet at the Meanee Seminary, Napier, this wee'< to consider the steps that must be taken to bring into effect the decrees in respect to Church music issued in a Papal Brief by Pope Pius X. shortly after his appointment. The decree states that the class of music at present in use in the churches should be superseded by the old and plain Gregorian chants, and thai choirs should consist of males only. Orchestras are forbidden, but the organ may be retained. The adoption of the order, which the Church the world over is bound to obey, will mean that the music of the Masses" of Gounod and Mo/.art, etc., will be expunged from the services. As far as Auckland is concerned the changes have been taking place for the last six months. At the Cathedral., the principal part" of the Mass, the Introit, Gradual, Offertory, and Communion, are all done in the plain Gregorian chant. As far as possible the Gregorian chant is in us© in every church in tHe diocese. The abolition of female voices and the orchestras has not so far been giyen effect to. In the Old World the Papal decree has in most cases been adopted in its entirety, and we understand that this has also been done in some of the Southern parts of New Zealand, where choirs of schoolboys have been trained to sing the Masses.'