INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 12, 22 March 1906, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The Rev. Father P. J. Baugh has been appointed to the charge of the Campbell town parish, archdiocese of Sydney. The Rev. B. M'Kiernan, of Raymond Terrace, has been appointed Inspector of Schools in the diocese of Maitland, in succession to the Very Rev. Father O'Donohoe, who lately left on a holiday trip to Europe. The Rev. Father P. Hayes, who was absent from Tasmania for ten months, was publicly welcomed home at the Burnie Town Hall a few days ago. There was a large gathering, including clergymen and laymen af non-Catholic denominations. The parishioners of the Shoalhaven district have presented the Rev. Father Malone (who is now in charge at Kiama) with an illuminated address, in recognition of the Valuable services rendered to the Church during the time he was stationed in Nowra. The population of Vidoria on December 31, 1905, according to a return just issued by the Government Statist, was 1,218,571, being a gam of 82(i7 on the year. The natural increase was 15,4.31, but a loss of 7'1(,4 by migration brought the net increase to a little over half what it should have been had.- the arrivals balanced the departures. Miss Evelyn Cochrane, cf Si Brigid's Convent, West Perth, has been awarded the special certificate of theRoyal Academy of Music, London, for having passed the whole seiies of school and local centre examinations in the practice of music. This, it is stated, is the first special certificate of its kind awarded to any student in the State. The drop in Tasmania in the apple export is far more serious than was anticipated r l he ' Medic' was to take 47,000 cases, and subsequently v\as cut down to 35,000, but it will not nearly take that quantity, being several thousand cases short! The ' Langton Grange ' was to take 15,000, but she has been withdrawn, and it is very probable that other steameis will not now call. His Eminence Cardinal Moran blessed and opened a new chapel and additions to the lesidence of the Christian Brothers at Lewisham a few Sundays ago The cost of the undertaking is about £11'< M, and the collection on the occasion amounted to £271 His Eminence gave an interesting address on the work of the Christian Brothers since the Order was instituted o\er one hundred years ago. A very destructive \cyclone, lasting six hours, visited Croydon on Sunday, March 4, when the Catholic church was wrecked. Everything came m for damage, and not a place in Croydon was unaffected by the storm. The officials had to fasten clown a portion of the post-oflice roof, otherwise the old office would surely have been wrecked. Telegraph lines are all damaged, and everything showed evidence of the storm. Mr. Sydney Hoben, for a number of years musical critic of the Sydney 'Mail' (says the 'Freeman's Journal '), has been appointed musical director tc the piincipal ladies' college at Napier (N Z ) Mr Hoben who succeeded the late M. Wiog-and as organist and choirmaster of St. Patrick's Chnirch, Sydney, and raised that choir to a high state of efficiency, has left hostages to the musical world of this city in the shape of several meritorious compositions and a long association with concert doings which won him much popularity In fact he ranked high amongst the Catholic musicians of this State. The census of 1901 showed that in Queensland there were 37,636 Irish-born people It was not possible to ascertain the number of the descendants of the race, but they mvs v be considerable. The last census showed the Catholic population a1 120,405, or about a quarter of the total population. .The Irish people play a prominent part in the public and professional life of Queensland. In Parliament, in law, education, medicine, and the Public Service they do good wcrk ' while in commercial and rural pursuits they are active and successful participants. Replying to a deputation urging a referendum on the question of a lowing religious teaching in State schools the Premier of Smith Australia said that so far the Cabinet {had only informally considered the matter. The Government intended next session ,to introduce a Bill 1o provide for the taking of a referendum, under certain conditions. ,If Parliament accepted the system it would be a simple matter to arrange for a referendum and for such questions of State policy as the Bible in State schools the test time for decision would be at the Federal elections.