INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 13, 5 August 1898, Page 18

INTERCOLONIAL.

The recently-consecrated Bishop of Northern Queensland, the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, O.S. V., has proceeded to his distant mission to Cooktown. He is accompanied by the Right Rev. Dr. Reville, 0.5.A., Coadjutor Bishop of Sandhurst. After their arrival at Sydney they were the guests of his Eminence the Cardinal and Bishop Higgins, with whom they remained a week. The have probably reached Cooktown by this date.

News reached Melbourne recently that the Most Rev. Dr Carr Archbishop of Melbourne, and the Right Rev. Dr. Moore, Bishop ot Ballarat, were occupants of the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery in the House of Commons during th» Foreign Office policy debate They were introduced by Mr. Thomas, Curran, and in the course of the evening Mr. Dillon, Mr. Blake, Mr. Davitt, and other members paid their respects to them. Both Dr. Carr and Dr. Moore, who are paying their periodical visit ad li/nina to the Holy Father, are now in Ireland.

In our issue of last, week we recordrd how the Most Rev Dr Gibney, Bishop of Perth (W.A.), had paid a visit to Wexford, and secured two students of St. Peter s College for future work in his diocese. From the Catholic 'limes we learn that he has already brought out a community of nuns from the Convent of St. John of God, Wexford, and is prepared to take out another community.