DIOCESE OP AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1912, Page 36

DIOCESE OP AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.)

April 22.; s Feeling references were made in the churches yesterday to the sad tragedy, of the/ Titanjc. •

The Mayor of Auckland waited on the Ven. Archdeacon Brodie, and congratulated him on -the-stand taken by him against Anarchist propaganda at Waihi. ; Rev. Father Hickson, S.M., Adm., Sacred Heart Basilica, Wellington, who is on* a visit to Auckland, celebrated Mass at the Mater Misericordise Hospital yesterday. He returns home via the thermal district, leaving here to-morrow. -• ■ " The district officers of the Hibernian Society sent the following cable last Saturday morning to his Grace Archbishop Kelly, of Sydney: ' New Zealand Hibernians with you in spirit, rejoice your investiture Pallium.—William Kane (Secretary).' „.' '•' The Cathedral Feis, which concluded on Saturday night, was a: pronounced success, . over £2OOO being netted. This will be devoted to the reduction of the Cathedral debt. All concerned Have every reason to be proud of and satisfied, with the achievement. Where all worked so assiduously; and constantly it would T be invidious to mention names, but Rev. Father Holbrook deserves a special word of praise. He gathered around him as fine a body of ladies and gentlemen as could be desired, but he was the magnet, the incentive power which set in motion .the great working machinery. The finale was eminently Catholic. When the body of workers finished, they were conveyed in motor cars to the Cathedral, where, on Sunday morning at 2 o'clock, Rev. Father Holbrook ; celebrated Mass. One hundred and thirty persons were present, several;! of whom received Holy Communion. From the altar steps Father Holbrook thanked all for their strenuous and untiring labors of months past, particularly during the past fourteen days. His Lordship the Bishop (he said) would be particularly, pleased, as. the debt on the Cathedral would be lightened, and in his Lordship's name he thanked them ; from his heart. • Throughout the whole time -the utmost harmony prevailed, and they could look back with pleasure to the results achieved. r After Mass the workers were conveyed to their homes. What a grand closing to a successful undertaking ! ' i