DIOCESE OP AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 28 February 1918, Page 18

DIOCESE OP AUCKLAND

(From [ our own" correspondent.)

February 23 His Lordship Bishop Cleary is still absent in the north, being this week in the district. Rev. Father Duffy, at present in .charge of Waiuku parish, is going into camp as : chaplain to the forces. Rev. Father O'Brien meanwhile is in charge of Waiuku. At the men's meeting r of the confraternity of the Holy Family on last Tuesday evening in the Cathedral Rev. Father Murphy gave an address on Martin Luther. Very Rev. Father Cahill attended the half-yearly meeting of the Catholic Federation Dominion Council at Christchurch, the Rev. Father Brennan meanwhile is doing duty at Parnell. \ '-* • " The Rev. Father Colgan gave an interesting discourse on Catholicity in Japan at the meeting of the Men's division of the confraternity of the Holy Family in St. Benedict's Church on last Tuesday evening. After devotions the members assembled in the club rooms and enjoyed a well-rendered musical programme! Rev. Father Murphy, the popular administrator of St. Patrick's Cathedral, goes shortly as chaplain on one of the hospital ships leaving the Dominion. He will be greatly missed from the Cathedral and it is hoped that on relinquishing the khaki he may return to St. Patrick's, where he has been. so eminently successful. The imperial military authorities have promoted Lieutenant Daniel O'Brien, A.S.C., to a place on the training staff at Aldershot military camp. Lieutenant O'Brien received part of his military training at Aidershot, obtaining Ist place in his examinations, and is an old student of the Collegiate and University School, Waterford, as well as a graduate of the Royal University of Ireland. Rev. D. O'Brien, Auckland, is congratulated on his brother's promotion. Mr. James Bronte Gatenby, 8.A., of Jesus College, has been elected to a Senior Demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford, for four years, to carry on research work on embryological and cylological problems. Mr. Gatenby, who is connected with the Bronte family, is a New Zealander, and was educated at St. Patrick's College, Wellington, and won an exhibition m zoology at Jesus College. He was placed in the first-class in the Final Honor School in Zoology in 1916, and has been acting as demonstrator in zoology and histology in the University laboratories for the University Medical School. •

At the meeting of St. Patrick's Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul on Wednesday, February 6, a presentation was made to Bro. W. Heath, vice-president of the conference, on the eve of his leaving for Featherston Camp. Rev. Father O'Malley, in presenting a shaving outfit suitable for camp life, referred to the long connection of Bro. Heath'with the society. The president wrote expressing his regret, through ill-health, of not being able to personally tender his farewell, and referred to the lengthy period of devoted service and loyal co-operation of the departing brother, who had been an active member of the conference from the time-of its inception in' the Cathedral parish twelve years ago. On the following day a number of brothers said farewell to Bro. Heath as he left by the troop train en route for camp. A Solemn Requiem Mass in commemoration of the eighth anniversary of the death of the Right Rev. Bishop Lenihan was celebrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday, February 21. Rev. Father Duffy was celebrant, Rev. Fathers Colgan and Curley deacon and sub deacon respectively, and Very Rev. Chancellor Holbrook, D.S., master of ceremonies. There were also present Rev. Fathers Murphy, Furlong, Buckley, O'Malley, Doyle, Bradley,: Hunt, Kimbell, S.M. (Wellington), and Cronin (late of Christchurch). Rev. Father Spierings assisted, in the incidental music rendered by the "convent pupils' choir, Miss Nellie Onnond being organist. A number of ; Sisters representing the various Orders were .present. -After Mass prayers ; were offered

at the catafalque by the celebrant. Ats the conclusion the organist played the "Dead March" from "Saul." There was a large congregation, and the ceremonial was deeply impressive. "~ '' ■' \ '---■<-• :.