DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 40, 3 October 1907, Page 23

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The devotion of the Forty Hours' Adoration commences in St. Joseph's Cathedral to-morrow (Friday) morning. The annual general Communion of the members of the Hibernian Society, which was arranged to take place next Sunday, has been postponed to Sunday, October Id. On Saturday next tonsure and minor orders will be given to several students •of Holy Cross College by his Lordship the Bishop. This will be the first conferring of minor orders in the College. The Rev. Father Lowham, C.SS.R., is conducting a retreat at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, which closes on Saturday morning. On Sunday at Mass Father Lowham will open a mission at Middlemarch, at the conclusion of which he will proceed to Hyde and other parts of the Palmers ton parish. There was a very good attendance at the meeting of St. Joseph's Men's Club on Friday evening, when the Rev. Father Cleary lectured on ' Irish Folk .Lore,' which he illustrated by the recital of a story of the very early period, and two of more modern times. On the motion of Mr. -1). S. Columb, seconded by Mr. P. P. Fleming, and supported by Rev. Father Coffey, who presided, a hearty vole of thanks was accorded Father Cleary for his lecture. On next Wednesday, October 9 (Labor Day), the foundation stone of the new Home for the Aged Poor Anderson's Bay (under the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor), will be laid by his Lordship the Bishop. It is expected that several leading citizens." including his Worship the Mayor of Dunedin and Mr. J. Mr. trallaway, will speak on the occasion. It is near three years since the present Home was opened with one inmate ; now there are eighteen. The proposed building Zo]?}\' W1 .l? furnishings, will cost between £7'ooo and jbBUUI), will have accommodation for 70 inmates. As the result of a visit made a few weeks ago to" Invercargill by Mr. J. J. Marlow, who at the time delivered an address to a representative gathering of T? UU A n |, £ ien ' Tt is inLended to open a branch of the H.A.L.B. Society there on Monday next. The branch Z 1 +i be T,-°sei-ieilT ,-°s ei - ie i l ,l )y M , c - Marl °w, who has been deputed by the District Board at Auckland to act as its representative on the occasion. .It is expected that the branch will start with a membership of- at least forty and it is to be ho_ped that the Catholic young men of the South and capital will take advantage of the nn ?l? J? f!?" 1 a Society which ' while offer^g them all the benefits of any similar institution, has also for its object the promotion of Catholic unity and the advancement of the social welfare of Catholics