DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 14 October 1909, Page 1617

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our .own correspondent.) October 11.

St. Benedict's bazaar lias proved so successful that it has been decided to keep it open for a further period of three nights,

The . contemplated visits of the P. and O. steamers to Auckland have caused general satisfaction, and -mark an epoch in the great^ advance of the • Dominion generally. . An excellent organisation _'is about to be founded in the Cathedral -parish.' Its object- is ±o gather together the boys after v they leave school iir a boys' club, and provide them with wholesome amusement , a"nd , instruction. At the Masses on Sunday earnest appeals were made to parents and boys to assist in this laudable scheme."' The inaugural meeting is fixed for to-morrow; evening.- _' ' Rev. Fathers McGrath and Murphy, ..visitors from the "United States, passed through here last' - -week. They visited, the churches, convents, schools, and orphanages, and were -very favorably impressed. - They made particular inquiries as to. the part played in' the' commercial, social, political, and religious life by Irish residents and their descendants. ' , :■ ' ' - . . -