INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 12, 23 March 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The Very Rev. Father Healy, Sxiperior in Ireland of the Order of the Holy Ghost, is at picseut on a visat to Sydney. Bishop Corbett, of Sale, in his Lenten Pastoral, discourages the practice of sending flowers as tokens of esteem for the departed. The Rev. James WaKh, of Oimnedah, ha? been appointed, to succeed the late Very Rev. Dean O'Sullivan, P.P., V.F., in charge of the Gunnedah district. The City Council of Sydney's estimated receipts this year are £245,536, and the estimated expenditure, £250,007 ; shortage, £1571. The rates will still stand at Is 9d. ___ Mr. J. Rigney, of East Maitland, who recently gave an acre of ground for church purposes at Abermain, has donated £100 to the Kurri Kurri church, conditionally on the sum of £200 being Subscribed. The estate of the late Mr. Andrew Tobin, of ' Wingadee,' Coonamble, and of St. Kilda, Melbourne, has been proved for just under £120,000. The will was not unmindful of the claims of charily and religion. Mesigrs. J. D. Fitzgerald (editor of the Sydney ' Freeman's Journal '). O. M. Prendergast (leader of the Victorian Labor Opposition), Hon. E. W. O'Sullivan, and Senator Higfis (says an exchange) worked side by side on the Sydney ' Daily Telegrajph ' in the early eighties as compiositors. Mrs. Lynch, of Yonbala (South Australia), claims to have been born in Ireland in 17M, and will celebrate her 106 th birthjday this month. The old lady is in splendid healtih, and often walks a distance of several miles to attend Mass. She came to South Australia with her hus'bancl in 1851. A meeting of the executive of the Australian Catholic Truth Society was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral on March 3rd, the Archbishop of Melbourne in the chair. Most gratifying accounts were received of the progress of the Society. Some 12,000 cqpies of the first set of publications have been circulated through, the Commonwealth, New Zealand, and Fiji. As the initial expenses are somewhat heavy, the committee appeal to all who desire to aid the meritorious work of providing suitable reading for our people. The Rev. Father J. J. Byrne, of St. Francis Xa\ier's Church, Wollohgong, who has been appointed to the charge of St. Francis' Cnurch, Haymarket, has been presented with an illuminated address by his parishioners. The Rev. Father P. J. Wals-h, administrator St. Francis', llaymarnet, succeeds Father Byrne at Wollongong. Rev. Father Hogan, of Manly College, goes to Mount Carmel, Waterloo, as assistant in place of Rev. Father D. Byrne, on holiday. Rev. Father Ginning, who has returned from a trio to Europe, goes back to Cooma, his former parish. The Rev. Father O»' Gorman, of Cooma, contemplates a trip to restore his failing health. An rnique tribute was paid to Alderman Patrick Stanley by the Mayor and Aldermen of Redfern, or March 2, when his golden wedding was celebrated, by the presentation of an illuminated address exprershe of every gfjod/Wish to Mr. 'and Mrs. Stanley. The ptc-Veiiv tatiqn was make on behalf of the Council by tne Mayor (Mr. C. Gorton). Mr. Stanley has for the past thirty odd years been an alderman of the borough of Redfern, and occupied its Mayoral cTTair for five successive years. The records sShow that Patrick Stanley aid Elizabeth Regan (both of Meatiii, Ireland) were married by the late Dean Sheridan, 0.5.8., in St. Mary's Cathedr a l, Sydney, on February 19, 1855. The death of Mother Mary Ignatius Croke, sister cf the late Archbishop of Cashel, took place in the Bathurst Convent on March 2. Mother Mary Ignatius, was one of se'.en Sisters of Mercy who accompanied Ihe late Bishop Quinn from Ireland to form a community in Bathurst, and of the number who then commenced their labors the only two survivors are still actively engaged in the Bathurstt Convent. They are Mother Mary Ccrtrutie, the present Superior, and Mother Mary Stanislaus, Mother-Assistant. While throughout the whole -"^.Catholic commiunity the aektfh of Mother Ipnttius will S be felt, the severance of ties will be extremely painful to the two Sisters named, as they have labored side by side for about forty years. The deceased was born in Tralee, County Kerry, in 1819. One of her brothers, as previously stated, was the late Archbisnop ol C|as>hr-1, Dr. Croke. She alsv> had two other brothers, who entered the priesthood, and her only sister was Mother Joseph, of Charleville, Ireland, who greatly distinguished herself as a nutsing Sister at the Crimean War.