Diocesan News

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 18

Diocesan News

ARCHDFOCESF! OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.)

-rr- rt • April 22. His Grace Archbishop O'Shea will leave New Zealand ? mo \ -ill consecrate o May 16, r - the Right Rev. Mgr. Darnand, who has been Sop Bishop of Samoa in sucepssion to his rd S " Bishop Broyer who died lash year, and win, was we „ known to the Catholic boys of the New Zealand Sped t-onarv Force Advance Party which occupied Samoa whin ? r broke ««•*■ His Grace will l, e assisted at the comecra tion ceremonies by Bishop Nicholas, of Fiji, aml Bi 4m> Blanc, of Tonga. His steamer will pick up 'thos 'two prelates on the way to Samoa. His Grace will be absent fromi the Dominion until about the end of Juno +W.>c ii LeR f c s' ee^ es ' a " olfl b °y «»f the Marist Brother, School and St. Patrick's College, and a member of the literary staff of the Evening Post, who has resigned to entci the,, legal Passion, having joined the staff of Messrs. 0 and R Beere, was the recipient of/a presentai en from his colleagues. Mr. Reeves is a sou of Mr. F Beeves, who has been connected with journalism in Wellington or man y years. The quarterly meeting of the Catholic Education Board took place las* Wednesday in the Catholic Federation Rooms, AVill.s; Street. His Grace. Archbishop . O'Shea predded, and there were present the Very Rev. Dean McKenna, Rev. Fathers- Mahony, S.M., Smyth, S.M. Bowe Connolly, Messrs. Burke, Doherty, Stratford, McPhee' Carroll, Troy, and Hoskins. Accounts totalling £l6B 18s 5d were passed for payment. It was announced that the intended Boxing-Bay picnic, although cancelled owing to b-d weather, would bring in £BO to the fund as a result of. the art union and donations/The final" result of- St Patrick's Day celebrations"' had not yet been ascertained" but .i? R expected that the profit would be between £450 and £SOO The date of. the annual schools' social was fixed for Wednesday, June .23, and members were urged to make both that function and .the Thomas Moore Anniversary concert a success, so that the fund would benefit thereby/.,/.; / ; .. ••■-.'■ .:-■--■';-".".■••;-;■/ -■>-:s.-. K % The syllabus in /connection/with the Thomas Moore Anniversary competitions has been circulated amongst the Catholic primary schools of the city" and suburbs. The

entries close : on ; May ; 15, and should 7 reach .the r, secretary Box,; 958, on or before that date. The competitions will give our teachers an opportunityof encouraging the children under their charge to „ study Irish music and literature, and to venerate the 'Old Land to which the majority of Catholic New Zealanders owe ; their inestimable gift of Faith. The concert will ; also be one well worthy of patronage. -Every number :, will ibe a "Moore" item ! by the best talent procurable. ;. ;.'■-. ' ..-. <iv,.- r in : 2 \: \ # ni y> •':

■**!:e. The church which was burned down some months ago at Martinborough is to be replaced by a hew building immediately. ■•- '■■:■'•'' -"■' ■■"-'' ; :: w- ■ -■■' '■-■••<■

Rev. Fathers Dillon, Doherty, and Sweeney, three young priests from Ireland, have just" arrived to take up duty in the Wellington archdiocese. , ; A collection for the relief of the starving children, of Europe is appointed to be taken in all churches in the archdiocese on the first Sunday in May. '