DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 6 July 1911, Page 1252

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent.) July 3. His Lordship the Bishop left by the Maheno this evening for Sydney. Fie expects to be back very shortly: The local Hibernians intend celebrating their thirtyeighth anniversary on July 21 in the Hibernian Hall. Tenders have 'been called for the erection of a new church at Morrinsville, ! which is a portion of the parish under the care of Rev. Father McGuiness. Rev. Father Hunt, C.SS.R., opens a mission at Matainata on next Sunday, which will continue for a week. After that he proceeds to Cambridge, and gives a mission there. ' Rev. Father Hunt, O.SS.R., is conducting a most successful mission at Otahuhu. which concludes on Thursday next. His Lordship the Bishop administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to a large number of candidates at Otahuhu yesterday. Bishop Cleary’s latest work, God, or Xn-God in the Schools'{ is meeting with a ready sale locally. At the Cathedral door yesterday the number sold was close oh 200. It has certainly roused • a keen interest here, 'and is freely discussed in a wide circle/, and the opinion is openly expressed that the editor of the Fast comes a bad second out of the discussion. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament took place yesterday at the Cathedral after the 11 o’clock Mass. In the evening Rev. Father Holbrook spoke on the Xe Time decree to a large congregation, who listened most attentively to an exposition of Catholic doctrine upon the sacred--ness of the marriage tie. Non-Catholics present* were probably for the first time treated to an explanation which should produce a lasting and beneficial effect. Three returns from the Auckland provincial district to tho Irish Parliamentary fund are yet to conic in. When they are received the amount will be sent to Mr. M. Kennedy, Wellington, for transmission to Ireland. It is certain that the net return from the Auckland city meeting .will total £llOO. Efforts are being made to induce the envoys to take their departure for Australia from Auckland. (From an occasional correspondent.) A notable feature of the Catholic celebration of Coronation Day was the excellent muster of Catholic Territorials and Cadets. The church parade at St. Patrick’s Cathedral was under the command of Major Kay (3rd Infantry Regiment), and there were also on parade Captain Kavanagh and Lieutenants O’Connor and Burns (Sacred Heart College Cadets), and Lieutenant Reardon. All branches of the service were well represented, and the parade—from the veterans, who were given a prominent place, to the junior cadets an imposing one. At tin review which followed, the Sacred Heart College Senior Rifle Cadets created an excellent impression, and their smart dark-green uniforms and steadiness on parade were the subject of very favorable ami congratulatory comment on all sides. The parade state showed a muster of 6G.