INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6, 8 February 1906, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

Additions to the church at Dubbo were solemnly opened on Sunday, January 21, by his Lordship the Bishop of Bathurst. The subscriptions amounted to over £700. Rev. Father Flanagan has been transferred 'from Kelso to Bathurst, where he will take the place of Father McGee, who is leaving for Rome, to join the Society of Jesus. Genuine sorrow is felt in Father Flanagan's extensive parish over his departure. The Rev. T. Lynch, of "St. Mary's East St. Kilda, who accompanied Dean Phelan on a trip to Europe about 12 months ago, is in very indifferent health, and as a consequence he has been compelled to delay his return for some time. Father Lynch is at present staying in County Kerry, Ireland. Sir George Errington, formerly M.P. for Longford, and once unofficially sent on a diplomatic mission from England to Rome in a critical period of Land League history, passed through Sydney recently. He and Lady Errington are on a flying visit to Australia to escape the cold of the Northern Hemisphere. Alexander Juett, student of the Christian Brothers' College, Perth, has been placed third in order of merit on the list of Government University and Senior Exhibitions by the Education Department. Leslie Reedy and Angus Ferguson, of the same college, have been placed fourth and fifth respectively. The amount of the O'Doherty Memorial Fund (says the Brisbane ' Age') now reaches £400, with many donations to come in. It is intended to erect a memorial over Dr. O'Doherty's grave at Toowong Cemetery, but it will not be a pretentious monument, and tfhe remainder of the fund will be used to smooth out the declining years of Mrs. O'Doherty. His Eminence Cardinal Moran has announced that he intends to mak^e provision in the new standard of proficiency to be issued for the primary schools within a few weeks for the teaching of Irish history, etc. It is the Cardinal's intention, in order to prevent interference arising from outside bodies, to provide special prizes for these subjects, and to have the examinations conducted exclusively in connection with the diocesan examinations for the Cardinal's prizes. The Rev. Father T. O'Reilly, of Parramatta, who is about to celebrate the silver jubilee of his ordination, leaves on February 10 on a trip to Ireland. He will sail in company with their Lordships Drs. Dunne and O'Connor, of Bathurst and Armidale respectively, the Hon. John Meagher, M.L.C., and Mr. Jas. Dalton, Rev. Father O'Donohue and other priests. The people of Parramatta have decided to present Father O'Reilly with an address and a purse of sovereigns prior to his departure. He has been 17 years in Parramatta, and 25 years in Australia. Recently the gentlemen associated with the presentation to Monsignor O'Haran were entertained lat afternoon tea by Cardinal Moran at the Palace at Manly. The Cardinal received his guests and very graciously explained to all the paintings and priceless ecclesiastical relics with which his museum abounds. The latter include a chalice used by the Venerable Oliver Plunkett, that used by Archpriest Therry, and the pectoral cross presented by Cardinal Weld and worn by Archbishop Polding for nearly forty years. ' But this,' said his Eminence, reverently, holding a chalice and patten of discolored pewter in his hand, 'is the most precious relic of the whole collection. Intrinsically it is probably worth a few pence, but the articles were used'by martyr-priests in the Penal Days of Ireland.' Still another charitable institution (says the Sydney 4 Freeman ') has been added to the list of those that already exist under the auspices of the Church in and around Sydney. On Sunday afternoon, January 21, his Eminence the Cardinal-Archbishop, accompanied by the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle, Bishop of Lismore, and the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Haran, Prothon. Apos., drove to North Shore, and blessed and opened a new children's hospital at Willoughby Road, which will be conducted by the Sisters of Mercy. The total expenditure on the institution has been over £1500, and the sum on hand, including donations received at tho ceremony, was about £200. The building was formerly the North Shore Hospital, aVid was purchased for £1250. For the present the hospital will be conducted by four of the Sisters of Mercy and a matron — Miss Glasheen, a native of Tipperary, who had been for six years at the Sydney Hospital, and for some years has been engaged in her profession as a private nurse.