DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 1 June 1916, Page 22

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.) May 29. His Lordship Bishop Cleary has cabled to the Right Rev. Mgr. Mahoney, V.G., announcing his arrival in Rome during last week. His health has continued to improve. This news, when announced in the churches yesterday, gave general satisfaction. His Lordship Bishop Brodie is due here shortly, and is expected to administer Confirmation in several parishes, amongst which are Grey Lynn, Parnell, and the parish in which he was born, Coromandel. His Lordship will receive the warmest of welcomes on his visit to Auckland. • Rev. Father Murphy delivered an interesting lecture at the meeting of the Holy Family Confraternity last week, on ‘ Mount. Melleray,’ the great ' Trappist monastery in the South of Ireland. He gave the history of the monastery from its inception, when the monks had to seek shelter in Ireland owing to the persecution on the Continent. Since then they had changed what was a barren, uninviting spot, into a veritable garden. The daily life of the Trappists was dealt with, also their great piety, zeal,' industry, and hospitality. ' Mr. Justice Cooper has been engaged at the Auckland Supreme Court, during the last ten days, in a case in which his Lordship Bishop Cleary, as plaintiff, sought power to annul a lease granted to one William John Smale, on the ground that the blasting of stones, which was carried on, endangered the lives of the staff and inmates of the Takapuna Orphanage. The defendant also owed arrears of rent, amounting to £250, which sum lipd been paid into court by defendant’s creditors. The judge held that the Bishop had a right of re-entry notwithstanding this payment, but he ought to grant* defendant relief against, forfeiture of lease / upon certain conditions, in consideration of the improved methods of working, and the severe loss the creditors would suffer if the quarry were closed. The conditions under which the quarry would be worked in, the future would have to be settled by the parties, or by the court. Meantime, he would merely say that he was prepared to grant an order of relief, one of the conditions. being that the defendant should pay the Bishop's coats, . /