DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 29, 26 July 1923, Page 31

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

Right' Rev. Dr. "Whyte, Bishop of Dunedin, who is on a visit to Ireland, was (says an exchange) voted the freedom of the City of Kilkenny, of which he is a native. This honor was conferred on the late Cardinal Moran on . the occasion of a visit to his old cathedral city , many years ago. ' '' ' ■ ) Sister Mary Xavier Hart, who celebrated her silver jubilee as a Sister of the Dominican Order, on last Sunday, was the recipient of numerous messages of congratulation from friends throughout New Zealand. We congratulate the jubilarian and wish her a cordial ail mult os anno: s. A substantial Dunedin business man, on holiday in the Old Land, writes to us that everything in the garden is lovely in Munster. fie is tonring Ireland in a Ford, and having sport </o Ivor. "I am not an expert driver yet, ’ he says? “but I am getting on. Yesterday 1 carried away a pier going into Barry’s Avenue; the day before 1 landed in a bog; 1 have killed four ducks; and an fold woman climbed a tree when she saw me coming. But the country is the finest under the heavens, and the people are the kindest and best. From pulling your car out of a ditch to making ready an elaborate meal/ there is nothing they would not do for you.”