INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 22 May 1902, Page 7

INTERCOLONIAL.

Miss Amy Castles will give a farewell concert in Sydney on Saturday evening.

A Catholic Churob. was opened at Stockinbingal by the Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher a few Sundays ago.

The Catholic ladies of Gundaroo district have presented the Rev. Father Mullins with a costly dressing-case.

A new wing of St. Jospph's Convent. Forbes, was formally opened by the Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Bathurst, on May 10.

The prooeeds from the Commonwealth fair and art union, recently held in Mudgee, in aid of the convent extension fund, amounted to £360.

The foundation-stone of the new railway station, Sydney, was laid by the Minister for Works on April 30. When completed, Mr. O'Sulliran declares that the new station will be one of the finest in the world.

The Townsville Hibernian Lodges have decided to erect a memorial marble cross at the grave of the late Rev. Father Mulligan, the young priest who, it will be remembered, was drowned at the baths some time ago. The Catholic congregation intend to perpetuate his memory by the insertion of a stained-glass window in the new church.

His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has been pleased to make the following changes in the location of priests in the archdiocese : — The Rev. T. S. Collins, from St. Francis Xavier's, Mansfield, to the charge of the Kyneton parish during the absence of Dean Hegarty ; the Rev. J. J. Egan to take Father CollinB 1 place at Mansfield.

The Government scheme of retrenchment in the expenditure of Queensland is estimated to effect an annual saving of £30,000. Amongst the departments to be retrenched root and branch is Mr Wragge'B Weather Bureau. This seems reasonable, as Mr Wragge's services are at present used by the Commonwealth at the expense of Queensland.

The Deniliquin correspondent of the Freeman's Journal writes to cay that Mgr. Treacy of that town is about take a twelve months' leave of absence on a well-deserved holiday to Ireland. To mark their appreciation of the Monsignor, his parishioners and friends presented him with an illuminated address and a purse of 105 sovereigns.

The members of the Catholic Institute, Fremantle, W.A., have resolved to obtain a chalice for presentation to Dr. Mathew Gaughren, who was recently consecrated Catholic Bishop of Orange River Colony, and was the firpt vicar of the mission now being conducted by the Oblate Fathers at (St. Patrick's Church, Fremantle.

The annual collection in aid of the hospitals took place in Sydney and suburbs on Saturday, May 10. The total amount received at the Bank of New South Wales was £3879 6s Id, as compared with £3875 16s last year. To the figures for this year has to be added a sum paid into the bank through the office since June 1 last, which will bring the total amount up to £4348 15s 3d. Towards this the city contributed £2286 Is OJd, and the suburbs £2062 14s 2sd. Last year's total was £1375 13n lsd, or a little more than on the present occasion.

Much regret has been expressed in Perth and other parts of Westralia at the death of Sister Mary Kevin Doyle, a Sister of St. John of God, which took place in Kalgoorlie on April 15. The deceased lady had spent 1L years in religious life, having been professed in the Convent of St. John of God, Wexford, in 1891, and was in the 31st year of her a»e. Three ytars after her profession, Sister Kevin went to Westralia, where s?he has done heroic work in the interest of the suffering. It was while iv the discharge of her duty thai she contracted typhoid fever, to which she succumbed. The funeral was very largely attended.

The Very Rev. Dean Hegarty, P.P., of Kyneton, prior to his departure on a trip to Europe, was pre.-ented by his parishioners with an address and a purse of £200 sovereigns. In the course of a speech thanking the donors for their generous gift, Dean Hegarty said that the most reasonable thing that could have accounted for his departure would have been ill-health, but he felt thoroughly well, and during 30 years in the State he had never known of three evenings when he felt tired or of threo mornings when he had not been able to get up and say Macs. The Archbishop, when he spoke to him of taking the trip, had looked quzzically at Ir'm, as though to say, what does a man in such good health want a holiday for I But he told the Archbishop that if he wanted him to work for 20 or 30 years more he must give him a spell, also that he did not want him to go home as an invalid, but whilst he was well and hearty and could enjoy a holiday.

It will be remembered (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Freeman's Journal') that the late Mr Martin Loughlin was a most generous benefactor of the Ballarat diocese, his gifts running, on some occasionp, into four figures. The nephew of the deceased gentleman, Mr. Thomas Loughlin, would seem to have inherited, together with the greater portion of the fortune of his uncle, the latter's big Irish heart. He has given several thousands of pounds sterling to church and school purposes and has just handed Bishop Moore a cheque for £2,30 towards liquidating a debt of £1660 on the Catholic hall of Ballarat city. The valuation of the Loughlin estate was sworn at £232,000. Mr Thomas Loughlin has just returned from a yitit to the Old Land. A mansion has been built for him in the rich agricultural centre of Warrenheip, about six miles from Ballarat.