Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 16 May 1907, Page 35

Intercolonial

His Eminence Cardinal Moran blessed a new school-, church at Doilwich Hill on Sunday, April 28. The cost will be close on £900, and & \sum of over £250 was subscribed at the ceremony. - ' Mr. Louighlin, of Ballarat, who is said to have given £30,000 towards the building «f a cathedral at Kilkenny, leaves shortly for Ireland to be present a.t the opening. Various changes are taking place in connection with the Diocese of Bathurst. Owing to the death of Yen. Archdeacon D'Arcy at Wellington the Right Rev. Mgr. Long has been appointed to the vacant position. Rev. Father Lawler, ot Mudgee, will proceed to Gulgong, and' Monsignor O'Donovan will, as formerly foB some forty years, be head ot the' Catholic phurch in'Mudgoe and district. / The new church at Michelago, erected in memory of the late Rev. James H. O' Gorman, who for some years had charge of the .parish of Miohelago, was blessed and opened on Sunday, March 28, by the Rev. John O'Gorman, of St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, . brother of the deceased. The church has been erected at a cost of close on £1100, and the collection at the opening ceremony amounted to £350. At a recent concert promoted by the Bendigo Eight Hours' Anniversary Committee,-- a juvenile choir contest was held. The result of the concert was most_ satisfactory to the Catholic schools, St. Kilian's Girls' School receiving first award, while the Marist Brothers' Mo. 1 choir obtained second Jionors. In making his award, the adjudicator, • Mr. Robson, of Ballarat, said he was very pleased indeed v/ith the effort of the winning choirs that ' night, and it was not often he was privileged to hear such good voices so well trained. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has made the following changes in the location of priests in the Archdiocese :— Rev. P. J. Fallon, from Camberwoll to E'ssen'don, as assistant to Rev. D. B. Nelan, P.P. ; Rev. M. J Dolan, from Bacchus Marsh to ihe charge of Powlett River mission?; Rev. P. Parker, from Powlett River to the charge of Heidelberg mission, in the room of the Rev. D. O'Callaghan, who, for health reasons, has been granted twelve months' leave of absence ; Rev. T. Bride (recently ordained), to Bacchus Marsh, as assistant to the Rev. D. Horan. • The death is reported of Mr. Arthur Collingridge, of. Ryde, a weli-kmown artist, at the age of 54 years.The deceased was a native 'of Oxfordshire, but ceceivea his education in Paris, where he studied art. At the time of the Franco-Prussian war he returned 'to England, and joined the staffs of the ' Illustrated London News ' and ' Graphic' Later on he was connected with some of the leading illustrated papers in Paris. He came out to Australia in 1879, and the following year, in conjunction with his brother, he formed the Rioyal Art Society in New South Wales. Mr. Collingridge began to ail about three months ago, andgradually' grew; worse until Sunday, April 28, when be passed away, fortified with all the rites of the Church; The deceased leaves a widow, eight sons, and four daughters to mourn their loss. The Very Rev. M. J,. O'Reilly, President of St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, in his address, at Perth Convent said that the other -day a • rev. gentleman in Bathurst delivered a lecture, 'the terrible burden of which was : ' How those dreadful Romans are getting on !' They are break-ing out like measles everywhere, not suppressed measles, either. Anywhere they can get a little colony, they have a knack of putting 'up' a church, then a school, and then a presbytery. Father O'Reilly said that he had to apologise for his inability to -controvert 'the statement that the Catnolics were getting 'on too well. It must be exasperating, he said, to people without- charity. As far as they contributed' to exasperating those people, he was an exJ tremely sorry man, ' but,' he added amidst laughter, " ' we have no intention of amending our lives'.'