INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 51, 21 December 1905, Page 39

INTERCOLONIAL

The Christian Brothers intend opening a high school in South Melbourne early in the coming year. A novel sight was witnessed in King William street, Adelaide, recently. A queen bee lighted on the hat of a cyclist, and the whole swarm settled on his hat and back. He waited for an hour until the swarm had become calm, and he then rode away with the intention of hiving them. The Rev. P. Sheeny, late of St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, has been transferred to Moss Vale. The Rev. Father Sherin, of the Sacred Heart, Darhnghurst, has been removed to the Oathedral ; and the Rev. Father Conoghan, of Moss Vale, is appointed to the Sacred Heart parish. The Very Rev. P. Murphy, President of St. Patrick's College, Manly, has been appointed parish priest of Braidwood,, in) succession to \the late Archdeacon D'Arcy. His Eminence the Cardinal has been pleased to confer the dignity of Archdeacon of the Archdiocese of Sydney on Dr. Murphy. The Sydney ' Freeman ' reports that Mr. Dan Fitzgerald, of Fitzgerald Brothers' Circus, who had been seriously ill for some weeks in Melbourne, underwent an operation in a private hospital. The operation was successful, and Mr. Fitzgerald was reported to be as well as could be expected. Speaking at the opening of a bazaar in Sydney the other day Cardinal Moran said he was sure that the friends of peace and charity throughout the world would rejoice that that entente cordiale was a pledge of peace for the world, and a pledge that the development of civilisation -would go on in its course of harmony and concord. Speaking of the persecution of religion in France, his Eminence Cardinal Moran, in opening the Carmelite bazaar in Sydney the other day, said : ' I am not afraid of persecutions ; we come of a race that has been persecuted religion, and it hat has triumphed ' over all those persecutions ; and, like St. Cyprian of old, the friends of religion will see that persecution only serves to purify and to render more perfect the pure gold that is tried in the crucible.' Mr. Daniel Roche O'Sulhvan, 8.A., barrister-at-law, who left Sydney the other day for America, was engaged on the literary staff of the ' Evening News ' for some years. 111-health prevented him from following the legal profession, hence he took to journalism. A native of Tralee, County Kerry, he studied medicine in Dublin, but halt way through his course he gave it up for the law. Ilia grandlather made a fortune by taking over >;the coach and car routes in Ireland from the) celebrated Bianeoni, and his father still carries on a prosperous business m the tourist traffic in Kerry. The foundiess of the Convent of Mercy, Wilcannia, Rev. Mother Mary Paul, died ,there on Thursday, November 2:1 She was a native of Rochfoid Bridge, Westirieath.v Ireland. She was a member of a Huguenot family, but became a convert on attaining her majority, and founded the Convent of Mercy at Tullamore, Ireland. Later on she founded in her ancestral home the ConvcntJ of Rochfoid I'iidge, her father's house there being now the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. At the invitation of the Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan, Bishop of 'Goulburn, the Rev. Mother Paul went to Yass, where she founded the Convent of Mercy in 187-5. In 1890, at the invitation of the Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Wilcannia, the deceased lady founded the Convent of Mercy at Wilcannia, and there ended her days, beloved by all who knew her. The Right Rev. Dr. Duhig, Bishop of Rockhampton, was enthusiastically welcomed to Ipswich recently and presented with addresses, vestments, and a magnificent pectoral cross and chain. Dr. Duhig, after his ordination in Rome, was appointed to Ipswich, and he served for seven years under Father Andrew Horan, PP. He was welcomed by all classes and creeds, and Protestants as well as Catholics assembled to honor him and congratulate him on his appointment to the See of Rockhampton. Father "Horan, who presided, said that if he himself had the selection of a Bishop for Rockhampton — even if thpre were 10,000 other candidates — he believed that the guest of the evening was the very man he would choose. He hoped that he would be a grand Bishop, and he believed he would be if God gave him his health. He would have very hard work to perform in his new sphere, but he (the chairman) believed he would perform his duties with great credit to himself and great honor to the Catholic Church. The impression made on him' by Dr. Duhig during the seven years he was associated with him was that he was a priest who never did anything for himself, but all he did was for God.