Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 20 September 1906, Page 35

Intercolonial

.. Hls v Lordsly(Pßishop Doyle has concluded a tour through the southern parishes of his diocese in aid of the funds of the Cathedral at "Lismore, now in progress of erection. During a two months' tour he succeeded m collecting £800. \ In the course of his address at the laying of the foundation stone of a school-ohuroh at Newtown a J?**. Sundays ago, his Eminence Cardinal Moran said that the pastor of the district, Very Rev. Dean Slattery had labored unceasingly and devotedly for upwards of 42 years in the Archdiocese. Another Eureka veteran died at Skipton (Victoria) the other day in Mr. "John Daly. He kept a general store at Bakery Hill in the early fifties. In 1855 he went to Skipton, where, he engaged in pastoral pursuits. Mr Daly, who was in his 84th year, was a native of Watergrass Hill, County Cork, Ireland: 4i. T T he^? ew , nos P itjal erected by the Nursing Sisters of ii 6.™6 .™ Company of Mary from Lewisham at North Adelaide has cost £6000. The accommodation provides for 35 patients in two large, well-ventilated wards and 15 private rooms. The new building is only part of a larger scheme. There are eight Sisters in charge and^ they have under them an in-and-out staff of 30 HUI £>CS a The latest letter received from Mr. Daniel O'Connor (dated August 4) was written in St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, where he was recovering from three weeks' prostration, from an enteric epidemic induced by bad food and water. Mr. O'Connor who eulogizes the treatment he had received at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy and their nursing staff, hoped within a short time to be starting Eastward. The golden jubilee of the Rev. Mother Prioress of tw ™ ln R Can iNU i IS o£ the Per Petual Adoration (Mother M Raymund) occurred on August 28, and was celebrated most filiingly at St. Dominic's Priory North Adelaide (says the ' Southern Cross ') Mother Raymund was born at Winchester, England, in 1840 and entered the Mother House, ' St. S Dominic's Convent Stone Staffordshire, in 1855, receiving the habit 5 A^ gU n^ 6> ?^, WW 5S5 S stationed in various houses ?£ £ °^ rm^ n En ? land unti l 1883. In that year the Rev. Mother with Rev. Mother Rose Columba came to found the present house at North Adelaide,' and has been there ever since. - Marked progress (says the Sydney « Freeman's Journal ) is being made with the building in brick of the handsome Catholic Cathedral at Lismore. The main walls are now towering above the surrounding buildings, and the clerestory arches are almost completed rhe arch over the main entrance to the nave is mvSn S mp °ml ng an d . cha ; ste appearance to the southern facade. The pediments overhead and tracery -rose windows above are finished. Some time aeo it was decided to proceed with the sanctuary, . two chapels wanf 7 n'f a ?h «* "Orthern end o f th/transept, 3S walls of these are now up about ten feet; The convent is now receiving the joinery, fittings, and plaster, but it will be about December before it is ready foi occupation. The exterior of the walls of the 5S n ng ,£ re co J ercd ,, b 7b 7 a Preparation resembling chipped marble and newly-fallen snow, and the effect is hP 7 r. S^ lk f g '^ H / S Lowtsni P hopes the Cathedral will s?tvof y th^n^ St r'Mr ext> 5? owin « to the immen-, tII L 3 r t\ gilding this is very problematical, town buildings is a huge landmark in the The Cathedral Fair (writes the Broken Hill corSS?£ ent f ° f the Sydney ' Free ™an's Journal 'was a magnaficent success resulting in an addition of £1012 S?, JJ C A at ' h€d r al oof, fu '^ s - At the n o'clock Mass .on Sunday August 26, Dr. Dunne (Bishop of Wilcannia) tendered Ms -hearty thanks to all who - W in S way assisted, towards the successful result achieve? Z*! particularly struck with the large number -S non-Cathoics who had attended night af&^aS S w f S P - 6 f f- be > TOrd measure at. such" evidence of ■M? I miwtedness . and goodwill in their non-Catholic wn2T«" ir Lo , r^ shl P repudiated the mention of the word < gambling »■ m connection with a bazaar conducted m suoh /a manner. If drawing for prizes at a bazaar S**?"!^' cd ra T g l°l,^ M - &i t ™ . la«S emmts and at the local Star-Bowkett societies was gambling in a greater degree. People attended the fair not for any personal gam but to assist in the liquidation of tK Cathedral- debt. He thanked all who had contributed to such a magnificent result, even those whobv their 2° R S £5 a S Ve f. tlle fair a ? unl^^-for advertisement del of fam the a^mm^i^r 7 *" "^ liberai:min -