DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 14 December 1911, Page 2525

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.)

December 11. The annual distribution of prizes to the pupils of St. Mary’s Convent takes place on Tuesday evening. The annual retreat of the diocesan clergy will be conducted by one of the Redemptorist Fathers. Rev. Father Kerrane, recently ordained in Carlow for this diocese, is expected to arrive here next Sunday from Sydney. . The annual presentation of prizes to the pupils attending the Marist Brothers’ Schools, Pitt street, takes place next Thursday. ’ His Lordship Bishop Carroll left for the South on last Friday. . He proceeds down the -Wanganui River, and leaves Wellington for Sydney next Friday. Right Rev. Mgr. O’Haran left for the south last week. On his return to Auckland he will stay for a while as the guest of - his Lordship the Bishop before returning to Sydney. : A musical and book evening was held in the convent school, and the following programme was presented : Pianoforte duet, Misses J. Rist and E. Willis;

song, ‘Garden of roses/ Miss M. McKenna; song, ‘A song of sleep/ Miss Mclsen; vocal duet, Misses M. and P. Cassin. Miss J. Hist and Miss E. -Nicholson acted as accompanists, and Miss 4 M. Simpson and Miss M. Gussy won the book prizes.