DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 10 January 1907, Page 14

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.)

January 4. "The annual retreat ol the priests of the"- diocese will be' held towards the end * of the month. Rev. Father Cleary, C.SS.R., will^ conduct it. Miss Marie Narelle has taken our people in Auek-

laird by storm. Never before have our national songs • been rendered- with 'such whole-'heaTtedness and spirit and pathos. Her singing of ' O'Donnell Aboo ' arouses all one's latent patriotic fervor. ,. Four times she was

rt'called for

.this* ilenu

to hear her sing ' '■

low-backed car ' and ' Barney- O'Hea ' is worth a long journey. In these songs the truevlrislu humor is portiayed in such a "manner as - toi set~"the whole audience in x roars of laughter. She" will long be rememLcred in Auckland! • rfl "* .?••-, . - At a meeting of the Marist , Order held - here- it

was unanimously resolved to take steps during the enbuiivg year to teach Irish history 'in ".the schools.Df the Order. Acting upon this, the local Sacred Heart College has' decided to offer as prizes two gold, - medals for thie best essays on the lives of great Irishmen. This is indeed 1 cheering news. Hitherto our boys and gitls could easily tell you who commanded at Preston Pans and resisted the ship money, but jt would put them to the test to ;say ' who commanded" at Benburb and Clontarf, and who, on our side, conducted- the Treaty of Limerick.

The annual retreat of the Marist Brothers- of the Colony terminated lasU Sunday. Rev. Bro-ther Basil has been transferred from Christchurch to Wanganui ; Brother Justin "goes from the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, to Wellington ; Brother Paul from Wellington fills the former's position ; Brother Joachim, of Auckland, changes place with Brother Martin, Timaru. Brother John and Brother Stratonique, -Assistants-Gen-eral, and Brother George' left for- Australia last Monday. Brothers John and St r atonique to Europe ; the . last-named, goes on a visit to Victoria to see "his parents, returning to Auckland to take up his former position as head of the school Sn Pitt street.