INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 26 April 1906, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

On March 31 the Kight Rev. Mgr. O'Donovan completed his 36th.. .year on the Mudgee Hospital Committee. The only other committee-man left from that old time is Mr. Kugene Daly, sen , the balance having retired or passed away. Brother T. H. Hughes, ot the Christian Brothers, who left Australia two yeaVrs ago- on a collecting tour in -.North and ,South America, in aid of the new training college in Dublin, has returned to Ireland after a very successful mission. He is expected to return to Australia shortly. Mr. Peter Tighe, who arrived in Sydney in 1843 died the other day alter ®it years' residence on the Darling Downs. Having been born in the reign of George IV., he lived under the rule of four British sovereigns. Oi his fjamily of tmrteen children, eightthree sons and five daughters— survive him, his wife, who came out with him j trom Ireland, having p re-deceased him by about six years. Father Jas. H. O'Gorman, of Cooma, N.S.W., died on April 4in St. Vincent's Hospital. He was a native of Scariff, Couoity Clare, Ireland, where he was born 37' jears ago. He was educated at AiE Hallows College, and was ordained in 1881, and came to Australia ten years later. -Father; O^Gorman, of St. Mary's Caxtihedral, Sydney, is a brother, and Fathers Michael, John, and Kdward Roban and P. Sheedy relatives. His Grace Archbishop O'Reily, of Adelaide, put in a word of sympathy lately lor the starving Japanese. In sending £5 to the ' Register's ' fund, his Grace wrote :— ' There is famine in J.apan ; and the famine comes when the country is exhausted VF the stress and strain of a terrific war. Ihe sense of human brotherhood will) assert itself. Christian chajrity as eqiu-al to the calls made upon it. Humane and Christian in supreme degree will it (fcb to help the sufterers of Japan in their hour of extreme need.' The Hon. H. B. Higgms, at the Dr. Rentoul farewell, emphasised his opinions on the Boer war. Dr Rentoul, he said, had stood for the cause of all humanity in the Boer war question— and he stood tor that test well. In that he (had nothing to gain .and much to lose. In that he kept alolt the flag of justice to the end. Dr. Rentoul recogmised that to s<ay 'My country, right or wrons;,' was an infamy. The attitude ot Dr. Rentoul m regard to that unjust war gave them a glimpse of his fine characteristics. At the hnal meeting in Sydney in connection with the St. Patrick's Day celebration it was reported that the receipts from all sources were £925 7s 2d (which included £540 17s yd for entrance to the ground which is a record tor St. Patrick's Day). The expenses amounted to £338 7s 7|d, leaving a credit balance of £586 19s 7d. The committee decided to donate £70 each to the eight Catholic orphanages, and to carry forward £20 19s 7d for next year. The orphanages which will be benefited are as follow :— Waitara, Gore Hill, Baulkham Hills, Liverpool, Westmead, Manly Kincumber, and Ryde. A new aaid most lHraportamt development in connection with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was recorded on Sunday, "March 25, when, in accordance with the wish of the Bishop of Ballarat (Right Rev. Dr. Higginsi), a Conference was founded in that Cathedral city by the President ol the Superior Council of Australasia 1 , who had journeyed thither tor that special purpose, accompanied by the President of the Particular Council ol Melbourne and one of its members. Hitherto there wiere no Conferences in \ictoria outside of Melbourne, but steps are now being taken to'organlse a Central Council, as in N.S.W., for the special purpose of extending the Society as widely as possible throughout the whole of the Victorian Province. The new Mercy Convent at Midland Junction was blessed and opened by his Lords-hip the Bishop on Sunday, March 25, in the presence of a large congregation (says the ' W.A. Record '). The collection, amounting to £650 odd, is the largest sum yet taken on any similar occasion in the history of the State. The convent, as an architectural structure, is considered to be the neatest and most complete building among the many institutions in the diocese, and it therefore reflects the highest credit on the architect, and on the Key. Father Morris, who had the work carried out in a most (efficient manner. The amount of money taken on Sunday added to Father Morris's gatherings during the year for the convent debt, totalled the grand sum of £1400.