INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 5, 4 February 1904, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

Cardinal Moran blessed and opened the new Convent of St. Joseph at Bulli on last Sunday week. Arrangements are completed for welcoming Bishop Reville, of Bendigo, on his return to his diocese after his visit to Europe. The various parishes i*n Ihe arehdioceso, nf Sydney are being rapidly and successfully organised foi the 'giea't, Jubilee Fan in aid of the St. Mary's Cathedral' A fine two-storey brick school was opened in Young, street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, on last Sunday week by Archbishop Carr. The Bishop of Rockhampton (Dr Higgins) was also present. On Sunday week the splendid new Bishop's residence at Bat hurst was formally opened by his Lordship Right Rev. Dr Dunne So far about t.'Wui) has ben expended on the buildinc, and it will take in or about £1000 or £1500 to finish. » Rev. Father Tierney, of Newcastle (N S W ), joined the Order of Ihe Sacred Heart at! Randwiek. He was •very popular in Newcastle, where he will be greatly missed A very useful pamphlet, entitled ' The Rosary,' has been gi\cn grat:r> to subenbers nf the ' <\ustral Light ' It was compiled by a member ot the stafi of that excellent Catholic maga7ine The Very Rev. Dean Slattery, of Newtown, was accorded an enthusiastic public welcome by the parishioners of Newtown, in the Newtown Town Hall, on his return to his parish aft or an absence of nearly 12 months on a trip lo \menca, Ireland, and Europe Mr. Perrm, who was so long and honoiahlv associated with the '\" Z Tablet 'as its editor, has, it appears, 1 rosicned the editorship of the 'WA Record' ("Perth) A now odiior is bring ad\ertised for The ' W A. Record ' is now solidly estab'ished, owing to the interest taken in its welfare by Bishop CJibney The Anulican 'Church Cmnmnnw ealih,' of Austialia, now wind up Ihen obitnaiv noiiees -with the Catholic 'RIP' How inanv Anglican clercy (sa\ s the ' Catholic Press') beliew in piavers foi the dead and are afraid to openly pieach the doctnne 7 The now Caihedral Hall, Melbourne, is rapidly approaching completion 11 "will be a magnificent structure and will ho finished in the highest st\lo of art The dimensions ol the main' hall are 100 ft b\ lift, with a fine stage 37ft by 23f1 The height from floor to the handsome fibrous plaster ceiling is ,'-55 feet It is lighted with electric light The KitrM K<>\ Dr Callaghrr Bishop of C.oulburn, reached ho ire two weeks airo from Ins \iml pel lmiina, find v. />-. enthusiast v a llv welcomed \s the express drew up at the station Ihe Bishop -was mot by a larce assemblage which included Iho elercv and main 'of the leading cili/ens The hand ot (ho P.ovs' School was also in attendant c, and .is his Loidship stepped from the tram Hie Mt.nns of ' Homo Sweet Home ' greeted Imn Forming into ,i lino Ihe bcind escorted Di Ca^a^hor to his cainaire .md 1 hence to Ihe presbvtorv No formal vckonio took pI.HM- t hoi o, but on Sunday week his Loidslui) w,i^ picsc'iiMl vith an addie'-s a muse- of sovereigns, an'i a sniiTididi now Uirone, Delegates and elerev w (to moment fioni various parts of the diocoso, and the- fumtion Mas a splendid one One of Ihn measures discussed m the recent session of the Yutoiia Letrisl<iti\ c Assembly was the Cremation Bill, on which Mr Duffy spoke as follows —'We all ivnow that, in cases oi death by violence, and especially ny poisonme, cremation would be the first thing that wouirr be resented to, and that Ihc criminals themselves would take immediate steps to have the body cremated, in order that the evidence might be destroyed I think that, it there wore no other reasons against the Bill being passed, that reason alone would be a very strong one Apart from that, I must confess that I feel a very strong religious and sentimental obieciion to it Let us cover up our dead reverently and decently from human eyes Let us \isit the graves of our departed, and place upon them tokens ot remem brance All the sentiment that gathers about the grave of the husband and father, when the widow and children come to place their wreiaths upon if, will be completely done away with by this Bill if ii should be passed into law, and I think that, in the mteiests of public morality, in, the interests of pu/bhc decorum m the interests of all the higher feelings of our iaee, this is a measure that should not be passed ' The very worst coujjh or cold succumbs to Tussicura. Obtainable from all chemists and storekeepers. — ••*