DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 18 May 1916, Page 22

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.)

May 15.

His Grace Archbishop O'Shea visited the Sacred Heart College, conducted by the Marist Brothers, last Thursday, and expressed great pleasure at the splendid appointments and large number of students. He was particularly pleased with the spacious grounds attached to the institution. On the same day his Grace administered the Sacrament of Confirmation at St. Mary's Orphanage, Hillsboro; on Friday at the Sacred Heart Convent, Remuera, and yesterday (Sunday) morning at the Church of the Assumption, Onehunga, where the Right Rev. Mgr. Mahoney, V.G., and his people heartily welcomed the distinguished visitor. In the afternoon his Grace administered Confirmation at

the Sacred. Heart Church, Ponsonby, to 200 candidates. In the evening he preached a beautiful sermon on our Blessed Lady. On May 17 Archbishop O'Shea visits the religious institutions in St. Benedict's parish; on Friday ne will administer Confirmation at Otahuhu, and on Sunday, May 21, at Devonport. On Tuesday, May 23, he leaves Auckland for Gisborne, where he will administer Confirmation.

For many years Parnell parish has been greatly inconvenienced by a block of property, having a front-, ago of 150 feet to Manakau road, which divided the convent and parish church allotments from the presbytery. Very Rev. Father Cahill and his people have now secured the property at a price of £1250. There are three cottages thereon, so immediate revenue is obtainable. The Catholics of Parnell are to be heartily congratulated on securing this very necessary piece of land.

Eighty members of the Holy Family confraternity received Holy Communion at the early Mass at the Cathedral on Sunday morning. This is exclusive of those members who go to Communion in their respective parishes. Rev. Father Murphy, who celebrated the Mass, asked those present, before leaving the church, to say a prayer for the repose of the souls of all those who suffered death in the Dublin riots.

The Hon. P. McMahon Glynn, one of the Australian Parliamentarians, " invited home by the Imperial authorities, now in Auckland en route to the Old Country, in the course of an interview in the local evening paper, said he had been a fellow student of Sir Roger Casement. The latter was never known in Ireland until he endeavored to disrupt the Irish Nationalist Party. The visitor exhibited an intimate knowledge of Irish affairs, and said, while deploring the recent outbreak in the Irish capital, he was sanguine that ultimate good would accrue to Ireland. He paid an eloquent tribute to the bravery of the Irish troops at the front.