Diocesan News

New Zealand Tablet, 18 March 1915, Page 25

Diocesan News

ARCHDJOCE3E OF WELLINGTON (From our own correspondent.) March. 13. The ladies of the Hibernian Society are aiding the Belgian fund by selling green ribbon badges with the words ‘ It’s a long way to Tipperary ’ printed thereon. ■ Mr. J. A. Scott, of the Agricultural Department, and a member of the Hibernian Society, has received advice that he has passed the final section of his LL.B. examination. Mr. M. Healy, son of Mr. W. Healy, of Brooklyn, was a member of the Australian Expeditionary Force which captured New Guinea. Mr. Healy, who, is on a visit to Wellington, was engaged in commercial pursuits in Sydney when the war broke out, and was one of the first to enlist in the Expeditionary Force. lie leaves for Sydney on Friday, and will join the next Australian Expeditionary Force. As a result of recent deliberations by the Dominion Council of the Catholic Federation, it has been decided to erect in the camp at Trentham a large and commodious building for the use of the Catholic members of the Forces, of whom there arc generally some 500 in each reinforcement. The building will be erected by fatigue parties, the Federation supplying the material, the arrangement being that the Defence authorities will have the work carried out on condition that the building is to be available for their use when required. The cost of the building is being defrayed by each ot the four dioceses, and gifts of furniture, literature, and so forth will be gladly received by the Federation executive. The mission conducted by the Marist Fathers at St. Anne’s Church has proved most successful. The seating capacity of the church has been taxed to the utmost at every service, even the early Masses. The

Rev. Fathers Taylor and McCarthy, who are conducting the mission, preached alternately, and, by their stirring and impressive sermons, made a great impression on the congregation, this being noticeable by the , great number of communicants each morning.. ' The missioners have greatly assisted the various societies and sodalities, and the Catholic Federation by materially increasing their ranks. The mission will conclude tomorrow, when there will be a general Communion, which will be followed by a breakfast for the members of the Hibernian Society and the men of the parish in St. Anne’s Hall. On Sunday evening a mission will be commenced by the same Fathers at St. Patrick’s (Kilbirnie), and will continue for a week. On Passion Sunday they will "begin a mission at St. Francis’ (Island Bay). After Easter they will open a mission at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Thorndon.