DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 23 July 1908, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph, From Our Own Correspondent.) July 20. Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly, who is undergoing treatment at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, is slowly improving. A statue of St. Patrick, the gift of Mr. P. Darby, has arrived, and been erected in the porch at the Cathedral. Father Molloy will shortly leave Coromandel to enter upon missionary work in the King Country. Rev. Father Cahill is building a new church at Raglan, and the members of his flock are taking an enthusiastic interest in the progress of the work. The chapel at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, which is a perfect gem of architecture, will be opened next month. Father Buckley recently visited the Inebriates' Home at Bell's Island, and was kindly received by the Salvation Army people there. He stayed overnight, celebrated Mass, and gave a short instruction to the Catholics there. It is understood that from time to time a priest will go down to the island for the purpose of saying Mass and administering spiritual comfort to the Catholics there. Rev. Father Tigar, 0.5.D., has returned after conducting a successful mission at Tolaga Bay. Acting upon his advice, the Catholics of that community decided to erect a small church suitable to their requirements. At present, Tolaga is served from Gisborne, many miles away. Father Tigar went to the Thames yesterday, and it is understood he will be stationed there for some little time. The St. Vincent de Paul Society is making arrangements to devote the whole of Thursday of Fleet Week to the entertainment of the Catholic sailors of the American warships. The society has been granted the use of the Sailors' Hall for the whole of that day. The sailors will be entertained there, 'and - luncheon will also be provided. Throughout- the day vehicles will be at the disposal of the sailors, for whom trips to .the various show places around the city have been . arranged. - In the evening the sailors will attend a concert to be -given in the Sailors' Hall by the Cathedral choir. Owing to the fact that the fleet will not be in port op a Sunday, there will be , no celebrations in the churches. " His Lordship Bishop Lenihan, in a private -letter written in June to a friend in Auckland, stated that he had been spending some time in his birth-place in London (his people, however, were from Limerick). He had seen Mr. Devlin, M.P., in the House of Commons. It was arranged that on his return, to London he' would be entertained by the leaders of the Irish party. Incidentally he mentioned that he had met on the lawn Mr: J." Gleeson (the well-known Napier footballer),- who is now with Mr. Devlin. Mr. Devlin made- many kind inquiries after his friends in Auckland. From London Bishop Lenihan went to County ' Wexford,' to visit friends, and then travelled to' Dublin to ordain clergy ai All Hallows • College.

Afterwards he went, to stay with" Mr.^Devlin; Jn the, North of Ireland (Mr. Devlin was -his guest ~in Auckland), and .with him was to visit the Giant's Causeway , among other places, by motor car. '' ' ' - -„,/''•"