INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 2 June 1904, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

During Bishop Moore's episcopacy a sum of £223,000 has been spent in Catholic buildings in Ballarat. The Rev Maurice Costello, 8.D., of Camberwell, has bean made the recipient of a handsome umbrella, suitably inscribed, by the pupils of St Patrick's School, Oordnn^ Imm whith parish the lev gentleman was recently iemo\ed to Camberwell. Mr 1*; S Wardell has been .Appointed Deputy T.I a. ter of the Melbourne Mint Mr. Wardell is a son of the late Mr Wardell, architect of St Patrick's and St Mary'is Cathedrals The appointment was made by the Imperial authorities'. The lion J (1 Dully, in addressing; the electors at Kilmore, said With regard to the Scripture teaching referendum, it was wholly unconstitutional, and was not sanctioned by Parliament It was not binding upon anyone, and "the result of the referendum might be the instrument of great persecution He was strongly in favor of religious education, hut the education sjstem should remain as at present, secular and free The Record Ba/aar (writes a Melbourne correspondent) organised by the Rev G A Robinson, B \ , has been a great mipcpss and with the funds so obtained the rev gentleman should be in a position to commence the erection of the church to be dedicate/! to Oui Lady of Victories A feature of the nine days' currency of the ba/aar was the generous support ail'orded by non Catholics, amongst whom Father Robinson is very poi> ular A leader in the ' Age ' also stood him in good stead, as it advertised his project in a particularly striking manner. A very fine pile of buildings, intended as a convent for the Good Shepherd \uns, is being erected a1 Lcrdervillo, near Perth Western \us1 rali'a The sile of the new 'convent, which has an area of forty acres is a very fine one, and was presented to the Communriv by the Rtight Rev Di Oibnev It is valued ?\ £(iO(K) When the consent now in course of erection is completed, rt wrll ha\e accommodation for 100 penitents, mad'dition to the necessary space re-ouired for the Community When finished and ready for occupation, with laundry buildings, fencing and road wav completed the whole undertaking will co^t close on £20,000 The Right Rev Dr O'Connor, Bishop, of Armidale, paid Ins first Msit, since his consecration last year, to the town of Bundana, m the New England distnct of his choKCse, for the purpose of laying the foundation stone of the first convent to be erected in Bi>ndarra which ceremony he performed on Sunday, May 8 It' is intended that the Sisters of St Joseph shall have charge of the coment ar>d school when completed, which, it is anticipated, will be towards the end of the present year . Some few months ago important business took Mr James Lynch, solicitor Brewarrina, N SW, to Ireland \fter a few weeks' stay he was so impressed with the lmprcnement of the country and its gcneial prosperous outlook, Ihat he resolved to send for his wife and three children and settle down in the old land There are two baronets living in "Melbourne One is Sir Bryan O Lotrhlen ex-Premier of Victoria, and the head of one of the oldest Irish families The other is Sir Rupert Clarke, whose grandfather was a butcher in Aldgate '1 he Ald cite butcher was one of the earliest settlers m the vicinity of Melbourne, and acquiring land became enormously rich. Speaking at Pyrmont a few Sundays ago his Eminence Caidinal Moian said he need not dwell upon the singular progress that had been made here in Australia during the past 50 years In 1 8 "> 1 there were only two or three dioceses in all Australia, and to-day, counting New Zealand, there weie 21 dioccsesi This was wonderful progress for 50 years In those days the faithful were but a handful, and to-day CaVhohes numbered, according to the last census by Mr Coghlan, inst 1,000,000 They had no fewer than a 1000 priests 'earnestly carrying 'on the work or religion throughout the Commonwealth, and they had no less than 1500 churches erected to the glory oi (Sod In their schools they had something like 120,000 children, and there were 500 Brothers and more than 5000 devoted nuns spending their lives in a spirit of incomparable sacrifice to brmg the blessings of Catholic education to these children. This was a wonderful growth for 50 years __ mmmm —