Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 5 September 1907, Page 35

Intercolonial

■ The Bishop of Wilcannia (Right Rev. Dr. Dunne) celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his episcopal consecration on August 20. Colonel and Mrs. Freehill were in London when the last mail left. They are expected back in Sydney early next year. Mr. Aloysius M'Donald, manager ol the Wellington(N.Z.) branch of the Bank of New South Wales (says the ' Freeman '), has come across to the mainland to spend a well-earned holiday-. It is understood (says the ' Catholic Press ') that the -widowed daughter of one of ,our leading Supreme Court Judges has been received into the Uhurch in England. Mr. James O'Connor, who died in Burrowa recently, was 98, having been born in Limerick in 1809. ' At 26 he arrived in New South Wales, and resided thirty years at .Campbelltown. Then he took up ; land and settled at Upper Burrowa River. ' ' . Mr. H. J. Milner, who is contesting the seat for St. Leonard's in the interests of Labor (says the ' ' Catholic Press), is a- native of New Zealand, and belongs to a good old family of English Catholics, who were among the early pioneers of the Island Colony. The Rev. J. J. Fogarty, P.P. of Burrowa, is making slow recovery (writes the Melbourne correspondent Of the 'Freeman'). Father Fogarty is suffering ,from i heart trouble, and his many friends, clerical and lay, ' will be glad to learn that the crisis is parsed, and that hopes are entertained ,of his final recovery.For some time his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne and the Bishops of the Province of Victoria (says the ' Advocate ') have been arranging the details of the first Provincial Synod in this State, which will be opened in St. . Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, November 24, with impressive ceremonial. Amongst the important ecclesiastical regulations which will be enacted at the Synod is the unification of diocesan procedure. This synod, or council, will marie a new departure in the history of the Church in Victoria". Fresh efforts (says a Melbourne correspondent) are being put forth to extend < the sphere and influence of the League of the Cross. Messrs. W. L. Bo'wditch,. M.A., T. J. O'Brien,, and Dr. O'Donnell have ,been putting their heads together, and by lectures, prize competitions, and other means, it is hoped that new life and energy will be put into the organisation, which was one of the ' first works inaugurated by his Grace the Archbishop after taking possession of his diocese. The amount .received up to date from the St.' Vincent's Hospital (Melbourne) Shilling Fund is £1300. To claim the £500 from the Government a sum of. £1200 is still, needed before December 3, which will be the first anniversary of the annual meeting in the Town Hall at which the Premier (Mr. Bent) made the promise of subsidising up to the amount of £500 each, year for five years all charitable institutions that raised in shillings the sum of £2500 each year for building purposes. In connection with the .efforts now being • made by the friends and patrons ' of St. Vincent's Hospital, on which tliere is a heavy debt of £24,000, a 'League of Help ' has been formed, and it is proposed to enrol 2000 members, each member to collect or give 5s a month for five years. In this way the .whole debt will be cleared off. After a life spent in the service of religion and Catholic education, Sister Ignatius Dowling passed to her reward on Sunday, August 18, at , the Presentation Convent, Windsor. The deceased religious was in the 52nd year of her age, and the 32nd of her • religious life. She was a daughter of the late Mr. Francis Dowling, Barrowstown, County Kildare, Ireland. She entered the Presentation Convent, Windsor, on March 25, 1876, and in October, 1878, having passed through the novitiate, Sister Ignatius made her religious profession. Four sisters of the Dowling family devoted themselves /to the religious life. One •of them, Sister • Alphonsus, is the Rev. Mother Provincial at the Con.vent of the Good Shepherd, Abbotsford. Her brother was a zealous priest on the Australian mission some years ago, and is now a member of the Carthusian Order.