INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 28 May 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

This month (April) sixty years ago the late Archbishop Folding visited Brisbane (says the ' Age '), and in a temporary chapel celebrated Ma&s. at which about 100 Calhobcs attended.

Cardinal Moran on Sunday, May 17, blessed and opened the new Convent oi the Sisters ol Chanty at I'addmgt on

At the competitions recently held in connection with the Kilmore branch of the A.N.A., the pupils from the convent schools, under the charge of the Sisteis of Meicy were among the principal prize winners.

The Key. Father Fitzpatrick, of St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, has been appointed to the parish of Bungendore to replace Father O'Driscoll, who has been called by cable to Ireland in consequence of the serious illness of his mother.

The Key Father Campion, who has been for over 12 years in chaige of the Parkes district, was recently presented with an address and purse of sovereigns on his departuie for a twelve months' trip to England. Ihe Mayor presided on the occasion, and Archdeacon Neild (Anglican) and several prominent and influential gentlemen of all denominations were present.

Friday, May 15, was the centenary of the first Mass publicly celebrated in Sydney. Ihe Mass was celebiated near Circulai Quay on May 15, 1803, by the Rev. Thomas Dixon, the Pi elect- Apos-t obc ot New Holland, the first ecclesiastical appointment made by the Holy See. for the Australian Church. On the following Sunday Mass was said for the first time at Parramatta.

The experiments which are being conducted by Dr. McCarthy, of Melbourne, to produce rain in df ought districts are attracting attention. The method is to send up columns of gas obtained irom chemicals, the nature of which is secret. If this is done continuously for 112 hours it will produce rain o\er a range of 90 miles. Jt is alleged that on an estate near Jnglewood an inch fell as a result of the experiment

On Sunday afternoon, May JO, Cardinal Moran blessed and opened the recent additions to the Coinent ol the Sisteis of St Joseph, Noith S\dney The com ent, with its new additions, is now one ot the finest buildings of its kind in the Commonwealth The building, which stands on a hill, afiords one of the finest \iews of Sydney which can be obtained tiom the northern side of the metropolis. Its purpose is that ol a novitiate, and a letreat lor the Sisteis scattered throughout the \arious portions of the St.ite, and is besides the Mother House ol the Order, the lesidence ot the loimdiess. Mother Mai y Accommodation has been pi oMded lor upwards ot '.">.")«» Sisters The total cost of the additions was £o"250, of which amount a sum of £11250 has been subscribed

A \ cry fine new con\'Mit of the Pi esentat ion Nuns was ojhmikl lecently at Getaldton Western Austtalia.by His Loidship Dr Kell\ Hishon ol the diocese At a luncheon which followed Mt Drew, MLC , spoke ol th" good work which had been done m Geialdton since Dr Kellv was ajipomted lo the diotc-e He said the eU'iit ol that afternoon furnished eloquent e\idiiice ol the enterpnse and zeal of Di Kelh r l he undertaking was a. gigantic one A con\ent h<id been elected which would not only be ade(|uate to prest nt needs but wlmh would be e(|iial to all demands for many \ears to tome e\<Mi n G<>ra.ldton prospeted as they all hoped it would do But it was not the only pi 00l of the Bishop's great entei prise His Loidship had only been a little o\orfour yvars in chaise of the diocese ol Geialdton, yet m that shoi t sp.ui> ol time he had erected a magnilic ent pa lac c, he had built schools and dwellings sit Gieenough, he had i>urchased a costly lesidence and giounds at Dongaria. he had built one ol the largest clinches in the State at Day Dawn, and he had c-stablisju d teaching Orders of nuns at Greenough. Dong.nra. Vuc Koebom ne and on the East Miimlumiii fields That was a lecordof whith any r.dnnnistiator might well leel pioud

The leport ot the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Waiatah, NSW , lor 19<il-2 is i,u«-t to hand, and a [eiusal ol its- contents gi\e-. us a good idea ol the beni lici nt woi k carried on there b\ the Donuniuui Nuns I lining the period whuh the tepoit co-vets thiee bo\s andeig'ht girls had been admitted into the institution, the> total number of inmates being .'{."> 'I he institution was founded in 187."), and suite then f>B guls and '.V.\ bo\s ha\e been admitted, these coniinu Horn all paits of the Commonwealth and New Zealand r l he s\ stein of instruction is what fs known as the combnud, and b\ this e\ ci \ degtee of intellect can be teaehed b\ making use ot the method best suited to the capacity and special need ol the pupils A full a' count of the splendid woi k whith is being done at Wavatah by the Sisters of St Dominic appeared in the 'NZ T;>' ' ' ' two and a hall \ e.u s ago The institution, which was loundcd by the Kight Key Dr Murray, Bishop of Maitland, is dependent almost entirely on the chaiit\ ot the piMu haMtig no y o\ eminent grant Not w ithst .mdiim that the institution is burdened with a heaw debt it is doing a splendid woik, ami the Dominican Nuns deser\e well of the Catholics of Australasia