INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 15, 14 April 1904, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

His Eminence Cardinal Moran administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 427 candidates at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, on Palm Sunday. A bazaar in aid of the convent building fund, Nowra, made about £350, of which sum £100 was realised from the sale of cattle donated by farmers in the district. Our Sydney exchanges report that the Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Bishop of Rockhampton, has recovered irom his recent indisposition, and is now able to attend to the affairs of the diocese. Mr. Joseph Scully, a young man employed as groom at Eaglehawk, near Bendigo, has received word that

under his deceased father's will he has inherited a fortune of £16,000 and a large wine and spirit husiness in Kilbeggam, Ireland. The result of the bazaar held recently in aid of the building fund of the Elmore Catholic Church proved very satisfactory. Over £600 was taken and at a meeting held a few Sundays ago donations to the amount of £514 were promised. Rev. Father Rouillac, the sailor priest, whose wonderful achievement in navigating his 19-ton craft from the Solomon Islands to Sydney and back a couple of years ago gained him universal admiration, is at present doing duty at Mount Morgan, North Queensland. The Sydney University has awarded the P. N. Russell scholarship to R. Power, a student of St. John's Catholic College (within the University). The scholarship is worth £75 a year for four years. Mr. Power has been reading at Nudgee, Brisbane,* with Mr. Hugh Macrossan, 8.A., a former student of St. John's, and a favorite pupil of Mr. Carlos and Mr. J. de Burg O'Reilly. The receipts from the St. Patrick's nigint concert in the Town Hall, Melbourne, totalled over £200, the proceeds being in aid ol the Foundling Hosp tal, Broadmeadows. Among those present were his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, who presided, his Excellency the Governor-General and Lady Northcote, and the Lord Mayor and Lady McEacharn. A boo/k has been returned to the Melbourne Public Library after an absence of seventeen years (says the Melbourne ' Herald '). It is a ' Life of St Patrick,' and had been given up for lost long ago. The Library authorities do not know by whom it was carried off, or who returned it All they know is that it mysteriously disappeared from its allotted place, and as mysteriously reappeared in the precise place it had originally occupied. Archbishop Dunne, of Brisbane, speaking recently, said that King Edward was doing good work in the direction of removing a number of prejudices which had existed m the past, and his Grace was pleased to be able to say that all classes and creeds worked together harmoniously for their mutual welfaie The freedom which Catholics enioyed throughout the Empire was particularly noticeable' in Australia, where, with the exception of a" few fanatics, all classes and creeds sank their little differences of opinion and religion, and did all they could to assist one another During the past 15 months (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney ' Freeman's Journal ') his Grace the Archbishop has expended no less a sum than £18,400 on the property bounded by Brunswick and Young streets, Fit/roy, which includes the Cathedral Hall, club rooms, school, etc. There is a debit balance of £10,000 on the hall, and an appeal is now being made throughout the Archdiorese to meet the liability

The hall will be opened by his Grace on Sunday, Vpril 10th, when it is anticipated that fully half of the liability will be wiped out. The proprietors of the 'W. A Record ' of which Mr. Grattan Grey, well known in this Colony, has lust been appointed editor, contemplates effecting considerable improvements in the literary department of that paper as soon as arrangements can be completed for securing the requisite additions of machineiy Mr Grey (says the Melbourne ' Advocate ') has filled many important literary positions on the New Zealand press. For many years he was chief of tJhe ' New Zealand Hansard ' staff. He has also occupied important literary positions on the ' Argus ' and ' Ape,' and for the past two years he has been a weekly contributor to kthe eol'imms of this lournal His ' Travels in Two f Hemispheres, 1 depicting the scenes that he witnessed in his recent travels in America and Europe, Hi as been followed witth gjreat interest. We congratulate the ' Western Australian Record 'on securing the services, as editor, of such a capable journalist as Mr. Grey.