DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 16, 23 April 1908, Page 14

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.)

April 17.

Very Rev. Dean Lightheart and his people .are promoting a bazaar at Rotorua. It is to be opened and kept going during the Easter holidays. The balance sheet of the Dominion Fair will be presented one evening next week at a social at wlAch all those who worked at the ,£air will be piesent. Rev.. Father Tigar, 0.P., will shortly give retreats to the cniidren of the Star of the Sea. and Takapuna orphanages. Later on he will give missions in the Gisborne and Ormond pailshes. . ; The parishioners of Newmarket, on the advice of Rev. Father Holbrook, have adopted the coupon system to raise funds to enable them to purchase an allotment upon which to erect a new church. A bazaar and fete will also be held about next November for the same purpose. The seventh annual Conference of the Federated Catholic Clubs of New Zealand will be opened to-mor-row (Saturday) in the local club rooms. Twelvesouthern representatives are expected to attend. The whole body "will approach the Holy Table at the Cathedral on Easter Sunday morning. In the afternoon, as the guests of the local club, the visitors will be taken to Lake Takapuna. Rev. Father O'Hara, who recently returned from a trip to • ErUiope, has been appointed by the- Very . Rev. Dean Gillan, V.G., to Cambridge, Waikato. This is creating a new parish mi the diocese. Cambridge is very fortunate indeed in the possession of so earnest and- zealous a priest as Father O'Hara. .In his recent traivels Father O'Hara visited America, France, Italy, and Belg'iumi. Ireland, he considers, shows evident siMis of improvement. The alleged lawlessness is all nonsense, as .the country generally was never more peaceable. In the West the people were determined on bareaMng up the grazing farms. He saw evident signs of the breakdown of landlordism. In Rome, through the Mod offices of the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Riordan.-foe had an audience with Ms Holiness the Pope, who showed a wide knowledge of Church affairs- in tne Commonwealth and in our Dominion. The growth of . the Catholic Church in America was marvellous, hesaid and it ' outstripped all other denominations in the number of its churches, schools,, and seminaries.

A Parisian metallurgical engineer claims to have perfected a process of welding copper to steel wire- so as to make a non^orrosive coating. Many advantages, it is said, will result fr o m the use of this new wire, such as high tensile' strength and elasticity, combined with smaller surface exposed to wind and sleet, than would be the case with iron wire of the;_same con- " ductivity. Thus . wire is especially useful over • long spans, as pole intervals may be much greater when it' is used-. • ■ - 4 The publication of an advertisement in * Catholic paper shows that the advertiser not only desires 'the patronage of Catholics, , but pays them the. compliment of seeking it through the medium of their" own religious journal.' So says an esteemed and wide-awake American " contemporary. A word to the wise is sufficient.... -