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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 52, 27 December 1900, Page 6

His Lordship Dr. Doyle, Bishop of Lismore, left Naples for Australia by the Ortona on November 18, and was expected back before Christmas. He has secured six priests for the dioce§e, two of whom — Rev. Fathers Carroll and Durney — left by the Omrah on October 12, and the others were to leave immediately. It ii in contemplation to give his Lordship an enthusiastic welcome on his return, aB first Bishop of Lismore. On Sunday, December 2, the foundation-stone of a new presbytery at Essendon was laid by his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne. The new building is costing about A3OOO. On the same day his Grace laid the foundation-stone of the new Church of St. John in East Melbourne, the contract price for which is £3000. Also on that date the ceremony of unveiling and blessing the beautiful marble altar and baptismal font, presented to St. John's, Clifton Hill, by Mr T. E. Verga, took place. Mr Verga is a public-spirited Catholic. Just recently he donated to St. John's Church the Stations of the Cross — perhaps the finest possessed by any church in Victoria.