INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 39, 26 September 1901, Page 7

INTERCOLONIAL.

The latest newt from Paris about If iss Amy Castles shows that her progress under M. Booby is quite up to the expectations of her exaoting master. She has joined his opera class. M. Bouhy has riven her the roles of 'Juliet,' ' Mioaela,' and 'Ophelia' to study, and speaks in the highest terms of her great dramatic ability. The parishioners of Waverley and Bondi adopted a graoeful method of taking leave of the very Rev. P. B. Kennedy, 0.F.M., who, after a pastorate of 16 years in that parish, has been lately transferred to Paddington. A testimonial of esteem and affection had been mooted and promptly suppressed by Father Kennedy. The parishioners then hit upon a oonversasione at the Paddington Town Hall, whioh had to be organised with greatest secrecy. Aooording to the London Musical Courier Miss Maud MacCarthy soared another suooess at a oonoert given reoertly at the Women's Institute. Speaking of this oonoert it says : ' Miss Maud MaoOarthy, who is about to visit the Berlin Hochsobnle by special invitation of Joaohim, delighted the audience with her rendering of works by Wieniawski and Chopin, etc. Miss MacCarthy is hardly more than a ohild in years, but the breadth of her style and the passion in her playing leave bat little doubt in the minds of her hearers that in a few years she will be one of the stars of the musical world.' About a year ago the Right Rev. Monsignor O'Connor was made a Domestic Prelate of his Holiness. A recent mail from lurope oonveyed the pleasing news that for his ' great work ' for the Ohuroh in the diooese of Armidale, where he has labored for over 25 years, and for ' his fidelity to the Holy See,' he is decorated by the Pope with a gold cross of the first-class order. ' Pro Ecclesia et Pontifloe.' The brief, whioh aooompanies the cross, is signed by bis Eminence Cardinal Rampolla, Secretary of State to the Pope. The formal presentation to Dr O'Haran (writes the Sydney correspondent of Southern Cross") will shortly be made. The costs in the oase have, I think, already been paid, and the Doctor will be much poorer than he was before the terrible attack was made on him, although over A 7000 was subscribed. However, he has not troubled much about money. He is in excellent health, and is looking forward with pleasure to his trip to the old world with the Cardinal. As is only natural, there is no man in Sydney more popular to-day than his Eminence's Secretary, and his presenoe at gatherings never fails to awaken enthusiasm. Mr. Crick, the Minister for Lands, is forming a novel settlement in one of Sydney's suburbs. He is cutting up thousands of acres of Government land into acre and half -acre blocks, which will be let ito working men on the 22 years' lease privilege, and the Government are advancing to eaoh settler 50 per cent, of the cost of a residence. No hotels or shops will be permitted in the settlement, whioh is to be called Crickville. He expects to have 3000 families accommodated there before the end of two years. Cheap trams will run from Crickville to the oity. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has divided the Dandenong mission, whioh embraces no fewer than eight churches. For many years the late Father Daly had charge : he was succeeded by Rev. ML P. Carroll (now pastor of Flemington). The present Reotor, Rev. J. Gleeson, has done much for the advancement of religion since his appointment some two years ago. The extent of the mission necessitated the presenoe of three priests at the parochial residence, Dandenong. The Archbishop has cut off a slice of territory whose oentre is Korumburra, and appointed the Rev. E. J. Keating as Reotor. Father Keating has been acting as curate to the Very Rev. Dean Hegarty, P J\, V.F., for some years. Hiß post at Kyneton has been filled by the Rev. T. J. O'Sullivan, of St. Kilda East. The Rev. John Barry succeeds Father O'Sullivan as curate to the Very Rev. T. Lynch, P.P., St. Kilda East. On Wednesday, August 28, the intrepid mariner-priest, Father Rouillao, set sail in his Eolipse out of Johnston's Bay (sayß the Sydney Freeman's Journal). His 19-ton schooner, which had nndergone repairs, looked spic and span — a far different appearance from that with which she came some months ago into Sydney waters. A number of people, including Father Suleau and other members of the Order, had assembled to see Father Rouillac set tail and to wish him and his native orew Godspeed on their perilous voyage. As everyone knows, Father Rouillac is bound for the Solomon Islands, where he is one of the most active of the missionaries, and the prayers of one and all go with him that he may arrive safely at his destination to continue the noble work to which he has devoted his life. It was thought some time ago that Father Rouillac could be elected a member of the Sydney Yachting Club, for in that position he oould navigate his little vessel himself back to the Islands. But one of the standing rules of that club is that no one can be elected before he has been six months a probationary member. The authorities had refused to allow Father Rouillao to assume the captainship of the Eclipse, and he was therefore obliged to seek the services of a qualified captain. He was successful in obtaining the services of Captain Reid, and that gentleman was seen to grace the schooner* bridge when she Bet forth on Wednesday morning. Both Father Rouillac and his crew beamed with pleasure, and looked as happy as sand-boys.

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