Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 39, 26 September 1907, Page 35

Intercolonial

The Most Rev. Dr, Dunne, Archbishop of Brisbane, entered upon his 77th year on September 5. The parish priest of Burrowa, the Rev. 1 Father J. J. Fogarty, has successfully undergone an operatipn at Dr. O'Hara's private hospital, Melbourne.A preliminary meeting was held recently in Melsistance of Mrs. Kevin O'Doherty (c( c Eva ' of the ' Nabourne for the purpose of starting a fund for the astion '), 'who is in very poor circumstances. At the annual meeting of the Melbourne Catholic Club it was reported that, the membership totalled 267. The receipts for the year were £211 ss, and the expenditure £163 odd. • The Institute of the Blessed Virgin, Mary's Mount, Ballarat, suffered a severe lossj recently in the death of Mother Mary Berchmans. The deceased nun, although only 54 at the time of her death, was one of the first batch of Sisters who came out with Mother Gonzaga to found the Institute in Australia. The dedication, opening, and blessing^ of the new ohufch at Donald (Ballarat) toqk place on September 6, the ceremony being performed by the Right Rev. Dr. Higgins. The new church is built of brick, and has seating accommodation for' over 300 persons. The total cost was about £2720. I am still of the same passionate conviction (said Mr. Justice Higgins at the Melbourne Celtic Club social the other day), that the country from whiGh you have sprung, and I have sprung, is to be put right 1 by giving to the people some share of the self-govern-ment which we in Australia enjoy to-day. On the occasion of a recent visit to Bathurst his Eminence Cardinal Moran blessed the newly erected additions to St. Joseph's Convent, Perth. The Order was established in the diocese 36 j^ears ago from South Adelaide, and since then foundations have been sent out from Perth to Wilcannia, Wanganui, Goulburn, Maitland, and other places. In Victoria (says the ' Catholic Press ') wealthy Catholics seem to realise their responsibilities much more thoroughly than the wealthy Catholics of New South Wales. The late Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Kinsella, of Hawthorn, who died on August 16, is another example. .Out of an estate of £25,370 she left bequests amounting to £2000 to Catholic institutions. In accordance with the announcement made by him on the occasion of the recent celebration of his silver jubilee, his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne is organising a strong school committee, consisting of clerical and lay ir embers of his 1 flock representing the four diocese's within the State of Victoria. The principal object of the committee will be to safeguard the interests .of Catholic primary schools, and to provide the "necessary means whereby' a succession of trained teachers, will be provided for Catholic schools. This is a revival of a committee which was called into existence over thirty years ago, when Catholics had to provide combined religious and secular education for their scholars, consequent on the introduction of the secular State school system. * The Right Rev. Dr. Reville, Bishop of Sandhurst, has completely recovered from a severe illness which confined him to , his palace for over two months. On September 6, his Lordship was' able to celebrate Mass for the first time for many- weeks. That day 40 years ago (1867), on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, Dr. Reville was ordained to the priesthood at St. Peter's College, in his native town of Wexford, Ireland. His Lordship was consecrated Coadjutor-Bishop of Sandhurst, cum jure successionis, in St. K man's Pro-Cathedral, on Palm Sunday, 1885 ; and on October 21, 1901, the- Right Rev. prelate succeeded the late Most Rev. Dr. Crane, 0.5.A., as . Bishop of Sandhurst. , His Eminence Cardinal Moran was not able to preside at the celebrations of the golden jubilee of Mother Stanislaus, of the Convent of Mercy, Bathurst, on September t6, owing to illness (says the ' Catholic Press'). He wrote to Mother Gonzaga, Rectress of St. 8 Vincent's^ Hospital, formerly a pupil of the jubilarian in Ireland, who went to the City of the Plains to assist at the ceremonies, asking her to present to Mother Stanislaus a Pontifical Medal, which bears the best likeness of his Holiness, and on the reverse represents the consecration of the French Bishops.^ He also requested" Mother Gonzaga to be ■ the interpreter of his gpod wishes to the jubilarian and the whole community. " -