DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 24 October 1907, Page 22

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

. On Sunday last his Lordsnip the Bishop confirmed 30' children in TMilton, and on the following day 18 in Owaka. — When the last mail left Hone the -Very Rev. Bean . Burke was staying with friends in the South of Ireland. Mr. John Boyle, a well known jind popular resident of the Clinton district, -has returned after an extended * visit of live years to his native place in Scotland. The Sacrament of Confirmation will be administered in St. Joseph's Cathedral on the second Sunday in November, and in St. Patrick's Basilica, South Dunedin, on the following Sunday. During a passing visit to Riverton, our .travelling representative was agreeably surprised by" the excellent performance of High-class and difficult - harmonised sacred music performed by the local Catholic choir, which now numbers seventeen mixed voices. A neat new church is about to be erected at Te Tua, in the Rivorton parish. The dimensions are 21 feet by 52 (including a sanctuary 12 feet long).' There will also "be a sacristy 10 feet by 10 and a neat porch." The contract has been let for £31G, exclusive of seat-

ing accommodation. It is expected that the church will be opened in February. Missions will be conducted as follows in the diocese of Dunedin by the Redeiriptorist' Fathers : Invercargill parish (beginning at Bluft) from next Monday, ending on November 24 ; tin the Riverton parish the missions open _November 17 ; Port Chalmers, mission opens next Sunday ; cathedral, opens on Sunday, November 3, closes on November 24 ; South Dunedin, begins on Sunday, November 10, ends on Sunday, November 24 ; Mosgiel parish, opens on November 24, ends on -the first % Sunday of December. The missions now in progress in the Oamaru parish close next week.