DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 2 August 1906, Page 15

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.)

July 27 Further my. nnements ha- e boon eHected at the convent schools, Hobson street niri Th Rnvo )Cia \ l ?a1l T '"" lol(l V Manst Mothers' Old Boys Association m the Choral Hall last Friday evening was a grot si ccess Aiw? m^^'V^ wiH be Ri ' Cll< j " 1h( " new Royal Albert Hall, Albert street, on Wednesday next August 1 by the Mar.st Brothers' ()!,£' SV 111 Mass? SFS F P |S t ? ck>S Cathedral bu.hlin, fund.° IU ' Mossis. 1,. Mahoney and Sons ar-hilp<-t« will r^ s^wa tumis: ' N ° - rKSsS "!

According to a statutory notice in the local papers his Lodship the Bishop is taking steps lo get a private Bill passed through Parliament to empower him to dispose of certain land in the suburbs of Auckland, and with the proceeds thereof to erect a substantial orpnana-e and educational buildings at Takapuna. rt At the conclusion of a lecture on ' Irish Wit and l lumor ' at the Leys Institute last Friday night, Very Rev. Dean ll a ;kett paid a graceful tribute to he personal influence of his Majesty King Edward King Jvlward, he said, was behind the legislation of tue present day. If he were spared for the next ten years lie (the spca'er) was confident that the fair Emerald Isle would be restoreu to peace and happiness, in the conservation of which his Majesty played so prominent a part. King Edward was behind the gallant Land ol Irish rcpresentatl.es who stood on the floor of the British House of Commons. It was thereat humanitarian King of F.n«;lr.nrl who was making lor the peace c r F.uro c, and the prosperity of his Irish subjecs When the history ot our time became known the kind v part the King of England had taken at present in Ireland- would' he fa\orably written and commented upon King Hward was not only a great n,P. oil'- . 'S, Was the powor of his Personal influence which was the means or promoting the remedial laws which must ultimately lead to « fasting peace between Lnghsl. andlrfch people. As Prince S O f $52 he was always a friend of Ireland. ' God Save King Edward,' continued the Dean, • Ireland i true ami 2(12 (1 , frlflld ', Kuro^ Peace-maker.' King Edward S d J 1V V n lhc "arm Celtic h rartsof his Irish sub\fl In l , he , elld - ,lle, lle w as an frishman to his finger tips, a nd had no hesitation in saying that to King land Km? 1-dward was a constitutional monarch He was more than that-he was a monarch of the Kof hSrt 10 l , h , C JUhh PC ° nle hP had s howi kndFuroPP hi i i Was Uot °" ly Ihe P«ace-maker of mre? ci or bU I re . h a r.Q^ S * manner the C *~ taxcd he to a iK n ! lll l ! 11 n da ! iOII <>° f {he MT* Institution was •Iriih Uii n , i, on H ie occas , lon of llho on Ilackett Mr T ] \v m ThyT hy 1h ? Ver^ Rev - De an Jr c i p 5;, l - w If.vs presider], and in regretting that the hall was not larger, announced amidst an?hc US Li V* l!l ° l * an had kmdly wn ««nted to deliver tnc Jccture acam on a future date. Dean Ilackett who was greeted v.th cheeis on rising, th en slid he had been m, accustomed to be^.i. with a text he had got into the hab.t of it. lUs text that nigjt woutd ih. i \ nonseiue now and then is relished by the best of mni. 1 They had been told this was a Se'T^T 11 ' I^/?;- ]t 1S a , lau f hi "X age'dSared tne -An (»jjt n is none Mi > P ss wise on that account. The greatest fools he ever met were m?n n n ,iJ ( nOt AUgh - The world had been too long on its centre of graMty, and ,t was time it had I Htle change. ? n d got « n its centre of levity lie beS heyed there fas a snwlr in e- ervthing if you could only igure it out. A ' lecture,' ' he thought was o o d.gmneda term to ,npl y to what he was gSg to tell them 'I hey could hear lectures in church Sot S ffen would probably hear them when they got Iconic. He tlun nroceedod to gi\e a definition s.« far as a definition coi.-d be pi ,-n, ",f the terms vit 9 and 'humor' Pure wit, he said, was o f the intellect, and c-onsisled of a i-iron of the ideas so as L cause within us surprise and delight, ll.mor on the lnTco:^ P r\ hl b °r ftefin ° ri aS fcil of the emotions! and consisted of a fusion of contrasting emotions of an oppose cliu-arior, thus , uxlucing a delliVhtful ?S SO of°th!!Tr- Fl>11 ? Ihetoric WaS lSe characler of thp Aiipr, e? n humor ';ircr?n Englishman' he sa.d a nd he will just turn round, tell you to g o to Halifax, turn on his heel, ?.m\ walk aW ay He ha? no time for you. Ar^er a Scolchman. aT/ he wifl tell y ou to S o to ilr> same P l ac e, but w 1 stay growl, n c at yOM m broad KroUh • but Lpr In Irishman and ho will not only tell you to go there Shaim^fTr T\ lhe filnater Parl orthewav with a fie of fplsc rhetoric. Eyes sparklino- a iH bubbling over wi<h merriment, P^n Hackett th'en Z and ed ai !"cd°ote fri °? dl r J hat . rpd °!" nt of^reminScenSe" frlisS'&mS^.^ 1 h!s audlpnce hi & 1 * amused