INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 15 October 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

Sir Samuel Griffith as Federal Chief Justice will get £3500 a year, and Sir Edmund Barton .and R. E O'Connor £3000 a year each. No pensions are provided. The Sydney ' Freeman's Journal ' understands that the case, Crick v. Slattery, has been amicably settled The case was for libel defendant having made certain statements with regard to Mr. Click in connection with the St. Patrick's Day celebration. The recent sale of Phil May's original drawings for the Sydney ' Bulletin ' realised £1229, being an everage of 2^ guineas for 466 pictures. The well-known Christmas supplement, containing some 40 portraits of prominent Australians of nearly 20 years agq, realised 16£ guineas. Tuesday. September 29, being the Feast of St. Michael, his Grace the CoadjWtor-fArchb<ishop of Sydney «elebirate(d the feast of his patron saint at St. Benedict's. During the day he was the recipient of numerous gifts and well wishes from the many religious communities in and around Sydney. The need for a pipe organ at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Bendigo, has been very much felt. Bishop Reville, who is now in Ireland, has decided on having a pipe organ made by one of the best London firms, the price of which he estimated at £3000. It will be biiilt on the latest principles, and will be specially constructed, both in size and volume of sound, to suit the requirements of so large an edifice. It will p-robajbly stand ablout 30 feet high, and will perhaps be the most powerful one of its type in the States. During his recent 'visit to Granville, Archbishop Kelly presided over a meeting of the committee of Holy Trinity Church, at which a report was presented showing that during the past two and a-half years £796 had been collected for building purposes, and £826 had been expended in additions and 'improvements to the church, presbytery, and convent, leaving at present a debt of £30 upon the church. It was decided that arrangements be made for building a new chuiroh. Two addresses were ■presented to the Archbishop during his visit. Of all the evidences of good-will displayed towards him on his retirement from politics the presentation made him by the ten Working journalists who had daily bufcuiesa with him in the federal Parliament since May, 1901, seems to have touched Sir lEdmund Barton most. Speaking to a friend he said : ' When I think of the hours and hours I have kept those pressman waiting to see me on business, and remember the brusque and impatient way I have sometimes treated them when worried by a thousand and one troubles, I am simply astonished at the goodness ot 'heart and generosity which led them to give me these handsome parting gifts.' The Rev. E. Masterson, S.J., the eminent scholar and writer, whose controversial and other contributions to the press have made his name well known throughout Australia, has, says the lAdelaide ' Southern Cross,' arrived at Norwood. We understand that he will be stationed there permanently for the present. Some time ago it wa& announced, that Father Masterson was to be transferred from Hawthorn '(Melbourne) to Norwood on ■account ol delicate health , but as his health temporarily improved, the transter was postponed. If his health should permit ot active work, Father Masterson will be a great acquisition to the State. We trust that he will benefit by the change and will long remain 'among us. The Cathedral Club in Brunswick street, Melbourne, which was recently opened by the Archbishop, has already a large membership roll, and bids fair to become a popular institution, , The building in which it is contanned is a handsome three-stoned edifice, containing a numbea: of well-furnished rooms, a lecture-hall, billiardroom and tables, a first-class library, games of all sorts and other attractions. The Club, which was promoted by his Grace on entirely unscctanan lines, is for men, and is designed to aflord them means of scientific and intellectual advancement, combined with rational recreation. A large lecture hall is in course of completion on the ground floor, and will shortly be opened. From time to time lectures on interesting and scientific subjects will be given by well-known men, when the general public will be invited and admitted free.