DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 7 December 1911, Page 2480

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

Rev. Father Kerley, of Hastings, was in Dunedin on Sunday on his way to Melbourne. Right Rev. Mgr, O’Reilly, of the diocese of Auckland, paid a brief visit to Dunedin last week. A very successful concert was held on Friday night in the Sacred Heart schoolroom, North-East Valley. The devotion of the Forty Hours’ Adoration began at Mosgiel on Friday morning and was brought to a conclusion on Sunday. 'v There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph’s Cathedral on Sunday from the last Mass until after Vespers. The usual procession took place in the evening ,in which the members of the parish confraternities took part. His Lordship the Bishop, who had been on a visitation of the parochial districts of Central Otago, returned to Dunedin on Tuesday evening. On Sunday his Lordship administered the Sacrament of Confirmation at Ophir to 35, and on Monday at St. Bathans to 25 candidates. The annual entertainment by the pupils of the Christian Brothers’ School, consisting of vocal items, a delightful comedy, and a gymnastic display, will be given in his Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday evening, .December 13. An excellent and varied programme will be presented, and patrons are assured of a first-class evening’s entertainment. On Friday at Holy Cross College his Lordship the Bishop will raise to the priesthood Rev. E. Lynch-and Messrs. E. O’Connell and W. Skinner will be ordained subdeacons. On Sunday Messrs. O’Connell and Skinner will be ordained deacons, and on the following Sunday (December 17) the latter will be raised to the priesthood for the diocese of Auckland. On Saturday morning Sir John Kirk, director of the London School Union and Shaftesbury Society, paid a visit to St. Vincent’s Orphanage, South Dunedin. The visit was the outcome of a conference Sir John had had the previous day with a number of those actively interested in social work among the young, when it was suggested that he should see for himself something of the work going on in Dunedin. Sir John was accompanied by his Worship the Mayor of Dunedin, Rev. E. A. Axelson, and Mr. D. Wright. The party (says the Otago Daily Times ) was met and welcomed by Rev. Father Delany, the Sisters of Mercy, and Mrs. Jackson, of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and shown through every part of the institution. There are over 120 girls who have been committed to this orphanage, and for about 40 of these the Sisters receive no support either from the Government or from relatives. Cleanliness, fresh air, and neatness were pleasingly characteristic of all the rooms visited. A novel feature of the large dormitory upstairs was the curtains separating the beds from each other, and thus giving each child practically a separate room. After Sir John had had a brief talk with a number of the children and conveyed to them a message of love from the children of London which was heartily reciprocated, they sang to him very prettily a little song, without accompaniment. The infant department was then visited, where a large number of bright little girls were seen in the care of the Sisters of Mercy.