DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 21, 28 May 1908, Page 24

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph from < ur own correspondent.) 'May 25. His Lordship Bishop Lenihan left Montreal for Europe last Saturday week. Rev. Father Farthing has returned from his Australian trip, which he thoroughly enjoyed. The Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly is, I 'regret to say, an inmate of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. Rev. Father O'Donnell, who has for the last month been staying in Auckland, leaves to-day for Sydney. Rev. Father Holbrook returned from the Mater Misericordiae Hospital a few days ago, but it will be some time before he will be able t,o undertake parochial work. He has had a very severe illness". The Very Rev. Father Clune, C.SS.R., who arrived here on Saturday, opened a mission at Devonport on Sunday. Though the weather conditions were unpromising,' there were large attendances both morning and evening. The mission continues throughout the week. St. Bencdid s Young Men's Club held a highly successful social in aid of the church building fund . last Friday evening, when there was a very large attendance. The club's executive was assisted by the church committee and Children of Mary. During the evening Rev. Fathers Bradley and O'Donnell paid a visit. The proceeds should be a good contribution to j the parish funds. The citizens generally, since last Thursday, have been seriously inconvenienced through the complete cessation of the tram service. Happily a truce has been arranged, and the cars are about to start at time of writing. This is the second tram strike in two years, and the public, who maintain the service, have a right, and should insist, to he considered by both parties. Very Rev. Father Clune, C.SS.R., is making an appeal to the Hibernians of the Dominion to place a stained-glass window, representing St. Patrick, in the Redemptorist Church, Oriental Bay, Wellington. The cost will be about £50, and this is not a large sum, when it is remembered the Redemptorist Fathers have always striven hard to increase the ranks of the Society. Very Rev. Father Clune has approached the District Executive in furtherance of the proposal.