DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 2 May 1912, Page 26

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

April 29. His Lordship the Bishop returned last evening from Sydney, and was met on arrival by the Ven! Archdeacon Brodie.

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent.)

Very Rev. Father O’Connell and Rev. Fathers Goggan and Hyland left last Wednesday for Suva. Rev. Father Hyland addressed the members-of the Holy Family Confraternity on last Tuesday evening. It was announced at the last meeting of the Holy Family Confraternity that the. Marist Missionary Fathers would give a mission in the Cathedral, commencing on the last Sunday of October, and concluding! on the third Sunday of November. The friends in this city and throughout the Do-' minion, of Mr. Little, well known in Hibernian and St. Vincent de Paul circles, will hear with sincere 1 regret that his wife is very seriously ill. Her sister was stricken 1 with illness last Saturday from which she died, and Mrs, Little was immediately and similarly stricken. Her brother died about three months ago. The foundation stone of a new church at Tuakau was laid on Saturday afternoon by the Ven. Archdeacon Brodie, assisted by. Rev. Father , Kehoe (parish priest) and Rev. Father Holbrook. The church will be built! of concrete. The main portion now being erected will! be 60 feet by 30 feet. Archdeacon Brodie delivered a very impressive .address from the text,- ‘ Thou art' Peter and upon this .rock,’ etc. There was a large gathering of people from the surrounding country present at the ceremony. The Catholics of the district are showing much enthusiasm in the undertaking, and before-very long Tuakau will have a pretty and commodious church. I

At the annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children and Prevention ■of Cruelty to Animals, Ven. Archdeacon Brodie represented his Lordship the Bishop, and said, in the course of a eulogy of what had been done, lie wished to see country branches initiated, and added • that. if Mr. lowlds (as president) made an organising tour he would find-so many ready sympathisers in the country, that the scheme would be found feasible. He offered to undertake the work of organising a branch in Waihi He commended the introduction of competitive essays on humanitarian subjects, as tending in the direction desired, and thought that the movement might be extended by endeavouring, through the -offices of the editor of the School Journal, to have the winning essays publicly read in the schools. b