DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 18 May 1911, Page 906

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent.) '■ May 15. It is contemplated at an early date. to erect a new brick school on the Church property at Vermont street, Ponsonby, also to-utilise’-the present school so as to enlarge the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby road, dd- The numerous friends of Mr. P. J. Nerheny, J.P., will learn with regret that Mrs. Nerheny has been for some time seriously ill. Throughout Auckland-the greatest sympathy has been extended to the family, and fervent hopes expressed for Mrs. Nerheny’s recovery. , v On Monday morning at 9 o'clock there was a Solemn Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Mrs. Edge, mother of the Rev. Father Edge, who died recently in England. Rev. Father Edge was celebrant, Rev. Father Carran deacon, Rev. Father Doyle subdeacon, and Rev. Father Holbrook master of ceremonies. There were present in the sanctuary his Lordship the Bishop, Right Rev-% Mgr. Gillan, Very Rev. Dean Grogan, Rev. Fathers Wright, Patterson, Ormond, O’Farrell. The music was admirably rendered by the Sacred Heart choir. There was a very large congregation present. At the recent municipal elections, which caused great interest, three of our Catholic citizens were elected. Two of them, Messrs. Casey and P. J. Nerheny, were re-elected, whilst the. third, Mr. James Collins Gleeson, though a native of the city, had been absent from it so long that he was practically a stranger. He put up u most strenuous fight, with’ the result that he forged his way to the front, and towards the close of the fight he was the popular candidate. In a list of fifteen required to make the Council Mr. Gleeson came fourth. It was a remarkable achievement, and one of which any young man might justly feel proud. Councillor Gleeson received his education at our Catholic schools and colleges.