DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 7 December 1911, Page 2469

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.)

December 4. It is understood that the annual retreat of the diocesan clergy will commence on January 15. Questions presented to parliamentary candidates with reference to grants to private schools, provided they satisfy the Government Inspectors, have met with varying success. Rev. Father O’Connor, of Ross, is at present in Auckland. He intends to stay here for a short time for the benefit of his health. Rev. Father Wright, who was acting in Ponsonby during Father Edge’s illness, has gone to Waihi to assist Very Rev. Father Brodie, while Rev. Father Ormond, of the Cathedral, has gone temporarily to Ponsonby. The many friends of the Rev. Father Edge will be pleased to hear that he has been able to leave the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. He left for Huntly on Saturday, where he will recuperate, and it is hoped he will soon be able to resume his spiritual labors. His Lordship Bishop Cleary is not enamored of the roads in the country districts in his diocese, particularly in the Bay.of Plenty. These, he said, are of a most primitive nature, and in manv narta positively dangerous to life and limb. His Lordship Bishop Carroll and the Right Rev. Mgr. O’Harah are expected to return from Rotorua via Thames this week. They will bo the guests of his Lordship Bishop Cleary for a time before returning to Australia. G

Very Rev. Father Mahoney on last Tuesday delivered to the members of the Holy Family Confraternity an interesting and' highly instructive address on Freemasonry, showing its aims and objects, and enjoining upon all to obey the commands of the Church in respect to this organisation. There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at the Cathedral yesterday from the last Mass until Vespers, after which Very Rev. Father Murray, C.SS.R., preached, dealing with the lack of reverence towards religion at the present time. After the sermon there was a procession of the Blessed Sacrament. There was a crowded congregation. The music was excellently rendered by the choir under the direction of Mr. Hiscocks.