DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 52, 26 December 1907, Page 14

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) December 18. • All the marble slabs, differing in color, have - now been placed around the walls of the Cathedral. The alterations made at -tyies Bishop's House have * greatly added to its beauty and convenience. The bal- - cony in. front presents a fine appearance, and from it >. there is a charming- view. This evening the annual hreaking-up entertainment and presentation.^ prizes 'will take place in connection with the Sisters of Mjercy's schools, Hobson street, in the large schoolroom. An excellent programme will be presented. To-morrow evening the pupils of the

Marist Brothers' School, Pitt street, will give their annual entertainment. - ■ . Rev. Fathers McCormack and Sullivan, of Maitland diocese, who" have been spending the last two or- three weeks in Rotorua and Te^Aroha districts, left for the south by the east coast "yesterday afternoon. They spoke in glowing terns of the Lake district, in which they spent a most enjoyable and very beneficial time. Father McCorma,ck will go from Wellington to the - West Coast to . visit his brother and sister there. A leading article, headed, ' Unrest in Ireland,' ' appeared in yesterday morning's ' New Zealand Herald.' T-he writer accepts as gospel truth the - news - which appears in his columns fiom the eableman at the other end of the earth. His proprietors pay handsomely: for the news,' hence, perhaps, the inestimable value placed on it. ' This writer, when Mr. Joseph Devlin - was in Auckland, called him a ' peregrinating mendicant.' He has not yet got" over that ' mendicant's ' success, for in the article yesterday he said that - lawlessness was promoted by agitators in order to show their American and colonial subscribers sorcething for their money. " • ' > -