INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 39, 28 September 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

Australia exported this year 252 harvesters to Argentine,, Algeria, Cape Colony, Jtaly, and Tunis.

Tha Australian Ploly Catholic Guild oeleborated its diamond jubilee the other day by. a conversazione at the Cardinal's Hiall, Sydney. There was an attendance of over one thousand, amongst whom were many of the prelates who had been attending the Plenary Council.

The following reply to the cable sent to Rome during the sittings of the Plenary Council at Manly has been received) :— ' Our Holy Father the Pope gladly imparts his Apostolic Benediction to the proceedings of the Council, to the prelates themselves, to the clergy, and to all their faithful people.' To the cable congratulating the President of the United States on the proclamation of the world's peace, President Roosevelt replied :-> The President of the United States expresses cordial appreciation of the congratulations of the Catholic Bishops of the Australian Commonwealth.'

A new dignity has "been conferred on Monsignor O'Haran by the Holyi Father. The new title is Protonotary Apostolic of the first class. The Monsignor is the seventh raised by the present Pontiff, and the first in Australia. He now possesses the right to wear ring and, pectoral cross, awd on solemn occasions even a mitre. It is a happy coincidence 'that the documents conferring this title were bestowed on the Administrator of St. Mary's by his Eminence the Cardinal on September 8, the 21st anniversary of their arrival in Sydney.

The Right Rev. Mgr. Long, Vicar-General of the diocese of Bathurst, who has been transferred from Gulgong to the administratorship of SS. Michael and John's Cathedral, and who will administer the diocese during the absence of Bishop Dunne in Ireland and Rome, is a native of County Carlow, Ireland. He was educated in Carlow College, Coming to Australia towards the close of his ecclesiastical oourse, he was ordained in SS. Michael anS John's Cathedral, Batlrurst, towards* the end of 1877. Since that time he has labored in many parts of the diocese— in Parkes, Orawge, Bourke, Wentworth, BatbJurst, and Gailgong. Monsignor Long has a wide reputation for scholarship.

The Third Australian Plenary Council was opened at St., Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, September 3, when the celebration' of the consecration of the Cathedral took) place. On Thursday, September !s! s all the prelates, synodales and numerous other priests joined in the Requiem High Mass for the repose of the souls of prelates departed since last Synod. Bis-hop Gallagher'preached an eloquent panegyric. On Sunday, September 10, the Synod was brought to a close, when the Decrees of the Council were formally signed by t/he prelates. As is usual at the conclusion* of a Plenary Council, a Pastoral Letter has been issued to the clergy and laity. The Catholic population of the Commonwealth is now 1,011,550, the clergy number over 1300, the teaching Brothers over (>OO, ami the nuns over 5500. The Catholic colleges for boys number 33, and for pirls 169, while, thero are 215 superior day schools, 1087 primary schools, 94 charitable institutions, and the children attending schools number 127,000.

Thei 'death is renorted of Dr. Lyhane, a leading legal practitioner of kalKWrlie, West Australia. The deceased was a native of County Cork, Ireland. He had a fiirst-clasa school career, and he afterwards studied at Dublin University, where he had a brilliant course. He took the LL.D. degree at that institution. Subsequently he .went to London, where he qualified at the Middle Temple for admission tio the English Bar. He was duly called, and after H>he Japse of a year or two he emigrated to Western Australia. Dr. Lyhane went to Kalgoorlie. five or six years ago, and practised his profession on 1 the eastern goldfielcls up to the period when he was sit ruck down by tne illness which had a fatal termination. Dr. Lyihane had wonderful gifts as a platform speaker and postprandial oratoT. His addresses on subjects pertaining to Ireland and her people were models of their kind