INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 21 June 1906, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

A fine new brick church at Mentone was solemnly blessed and opened by his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne on Sunday, June 10. The dedicatory discourse was delivered by the Very Rev. M. J. Maher, CM. The death has occurred, at a ripe old age, of Sister Zoe, of St. Joseph's Convent, Albany. She was the last of the band of four Sisters who arrived in Fremantle 51 years ago from Dijon, in France., The death has occurred at the age of 85 years of Mr. Patrick O'Day, one ol the few remaining pioneers of Ballarat. Deceased, who for many years carried on business at Brown Hill, was the father of Councillor O'Day, of the Bungaree shire. The Sydney Labor Council has recorded its appreciation of the lifelong service rendered the cause of Labor by the late Mr. Michael Davitt. This fact has been reported to Mr. W. C. Steadman, secretary of ,the Trades Union Congress committee in London. Sister Matthias, one of the oldest members of the Sisters of St. Joseph, . died at the convent, Port Adelaide, on June 2. She had been stationed at Port Adelaide for many years, and had previously had charge of the school at Balaklava. Sister Matthias was a great favorite, and her death is much regretted. The V,en. Archpriest Sheehy, on the occasion of his retirement from the sacred ministry, was entertained at a banquet at Audley, National Park, by the priests, regular and secular, of the archdiocese. His Eminence the Cardinal presided, and presented the guest with a beautifully illuminated address on behalf of his confreres. About sixty of the ladies of St. Mary's congregation, Mudgee, entertained Miss Ilalley, niece of the Right Rev. Mgr. O'Donovan, who is leaving the town with her uncle for Sydney, at a .complimentary tea. She was presented with a gold diamond bangle and an address, in which complimentary reference was made V' her work on behalf of the Church. The presentation was made by Mrs. E. Daly. To mark the twenty-first year of the Rev. Father John Foley's ministration in the Manning district, his parishioners entertained him at a complimentary social and made him a handsome presr.ntiat!ion. The proceedings took place at Taree, representatives being present from the various centres. Mr. D. A. McDonnell was chairman, and, after a musical programme had been performedj he read several communications, notably from the Right Rev. Dr. Dwycr, Coadjutor-Bishop of Maitland, Canon Phillips, Mr. and Mrs-. McGrath, and Mrs. Stone. The address was couched in most eulogistic terms, and spol^e of Father Foley's devoted ministry. The accompanying purse contained 85 sovereigns. The Rev. P. J. Dowling, CM., lecturer to the Technological Department in Ireland (isays the Sydney 'Free-/" man's Journal '), was a wcl-Vknown figure in this State a few years ago. It .jyas he who, as vice-president of St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, betook himself, his oxy-hydrogen lantern, and his genial and eloquent persuasiveness, to various centres of population, and by means of lectures equipped the college with its splendid physics hall, which is second to none in Australia, and is presided over by a priest-scientist in the person of Father Slattery, CM., second* to few in the world. It ■was largely owing to Father Ddwling's successful efforts that Father Slattery was able to achieve the distinction of first introducing the Rontgen Rays to Australia, and first also to prTe practical demonstration from •' the hill ' of Marconi's wireless telegraphy. On Sunday, June 3, an impressive ceremony took place at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, when his Grace the Archbishop formally unveiled and blessed the handsome new stained-glass windows that have recently-, been erected in the clerestory, and side chapels. Those in the clerestory— five in number— have for their' subjects" St. Peter" receiving the keys, St. Patrick and St. Brigid, St. Columba and St,_C.olumbanus, St. Francis Assisi, and' St. FiTtblar and St>. Mal»chy. Tnc first three have, been erected by the Misses Tobin/'St. Kilda,. at a total cost of £180. and tbe fourth- window, which also cost - £60, is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. 'Newman, East (Melbourne. The two windows inJSt. Joseph's chapel are donatrd by Mr.and.Mrs. J). Slatrtery,- East Melbourne, . the donors of the previously .erected there, and in St. Brigid's chapel, two handsome windows are the gift) of the Very JRe-v. Father, Quilter, St. Francis.', the third "being erected by Mir. P. Sher/pard, East Melbourne. An anonymous donor is responsible for the beautiful window in "St. Thomas' chanpl , and all the -windows represent a total cost of £780.