INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 25, 19 June 1902, Page 7

INTERCOLONIAL.

The Freeman's Journal is pleased to learn that his Lordship Dr Torreggiani, O.S.F.C, Bishop of Armidale, is making a satisfactory improvement in health. * A Military Fair held at Newcastle for the purpose of raising Innds for the liquidation of the debt on the Churoh of St Mary Star of the Sea resulted in a net profit 0f;£1062. On the King's Coronation Day a Solemn High Mn«« will be oelebrated at St. Mary'i Cathedral, Sydney. His Grace the Coad-jutor-Archbishop will preßido and preach. The 'Te Deum ' will be ■ung at the end of the Mass. His Worship the Mayor will attend in hn official capacity. j i v he »? eW Stations of fcli e Cr °SB generously donated to the Cathedral by Mr D. Slattery (say§ the Melbourne Advocate) will shortly be placed m position. Since the announcement that his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne had promised to donate £1000 towards the building of a central Catholic hall, under the shadow of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Mr D. G. Oullen, of Queen street, hai forwarded a donation of £100 for the same object. Plans for the new structure will be called for shortly, providing for a two-storied building, in the upper portion of which ther« will be a hall oapable of seating 1000 persons, whilst on the ground floor there will be three smaller halls' with committee rooms. The estimated oost, exclusive of furniture, is between £7000 and £8000. The death Is reported of Mr William Dolman, an old and highlyreapected Catholic resident of Sydney. The deceased gentleman, who had passed his seventieth year, came from a fine old family of landed English gentry, who flourished centuries ago in Yorkshire, but had suffered spoliation of estate rather than give up the Faith. He waß born at St Omer, France, and received his secondary education at St. Edmund's College in Hertfordshire, England It is about 50 years since Mr Dolman, then a very young man, arrived in Sydney. Almost immediately he was appointed to a professorship in St. Mary's Seminary, which gave so many scholarly men to the ranks of Australian clergy and laity. When the Seminary merged itself into Lyndhurst College, Mr Dolman for some tune filled the professorship of French in that famous college. In the meantime, however, be had in the very early sixties started a Catholicbook repository, and a little later joined the proprietary Of the Freeman's Journal, with which he was associated till 186!), as managing partner with the late Richard Blundell and the late Richard O'Sullivan, Mr Thomas Butler succeeding the last-named both aB proprietor and editor. For many years past Mr Dolman had disengaged himself from commercial life, and had devoted himself to municipal matters. He was one of, if not the oldest alderman of the Newtown Council, and had occupied the Mayoral chair three times. In the bead-roll of great Catholic events in the history of the Australian Church (cays the Freeman's Journal) the celebration of Corpus Christi at Manly on Sunday, June 1, deserves an honored place. The later generations of our communion in this country have looked upon many triumphs of achievement in the social and religious order, culminating in that marvellous Catholic Congress of 1900 ; but nothing more consoling in the spiiitual sense has ever been witnessed here than the splendid profession of faith made by some 15,000 people in the grounds of St. Patrick's College on Sunday. That the numbers were not even larger was due to no lack of enthusiasm in the Catholic body. The ' Roman invasion of Manly,' as more than one playfully phrased the event, would have assumed immeasurably greater dimensions but for the inadequate transport arrangements on the one hand, and the reasonable fear of such inadequacy in the experimental ntage on the other, which left thousands of disappointed cnes on the Circular Quay and induced many more to stay at home. But ' Expenentia docet/ and the consensus of opinion on Sunday was that this great celebration of the ' Fete Dieu ' has ' come to stay,' and that next year the success is likely to surpass that of the present year. During the week (says the Sydney Freeman* Journal) probate duty to the amount of £30,226 was paid into the State Treasury by the executors to the will of the late Hon. Thomas Dalton, X.C S.G., M.L.C., who died in June last. The estate was sworn at £302 208* In his will, which was signed five days before his death, Mr Dalton performed his last act of citizenship and Catholicity by a liberal remembrance of those claims of friendship, religion, and charity which during his life always appealed to him. His testamentary benefactions amount to about £7400, including the following St Mary's Cathedral, £500 ; Sc. Ignatius' College, Riverview £500 : Mount St. Margaret's Hospital, Byde, £500 ; Lewisham Hospital' conducted by the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company of Mary' £250 ; Public Hospital, Orange, £250 ; St. Vincent's Home for Destitute Boys, conducted by the Marist Brothers at Westmead £250 ; St. Mary's Catholic School, North Sydney, £250 ; St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, £250 ; Gladstone House Orphanage for Girls, conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph, Lane Cove road North Sydney £250 ; Waitara Foundling Hospital, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, £250 ; Prince Alfred Hospital, £150 ; Boys' Orphanage, conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph at Kincumber. £100 ■ Public Hospital, North Sydney, £100; Children's Hospital, Glebe. £100 • St. Joseph's Providence, £100 ; Little Sisters of the Poor, £100 • the Jesuit, Vincentian, and Franciscan Orders (for Masses for the repose of his soul), each £100. Some time ago it was stated in the public press that these bequests were subject to the deduction of 10 per cent, death dues. It is hardly necessary to say that the death dues were paid on the value of the estate in bulk, and that the executors of the estate are not deducting a Bingle penny from the charitable bequests of the testator.