Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 40, 3 October 1907, Page 30

Intercolonial

Mr,, D. O'Connor, K.C.S.G., ex-Postmaster-General of New South Wales, author, etc., is returning to -Australia by way of Rome. ." , - The renovations and additions to Stf Francis' Church Melbourne, have now been completed, and have added grtte&tly to the bea/uty ajnd appearance of "Melbourne's ■ oldest church. Father O' Sullivan's lectures and sermons in Tasmania have enabled him to forward to the Right Rev. -Bishop Pellet, Vicar 'General of the African Mission Society, the sura of £380. It is reported that the new -stained glass windows ordered from Europe for St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, are liable to £120 duty, under the new tariff, . whereas under the old tariff they would have [been- admitted free, as works of art. The Minister for Customs has promised to give the matter consideration. Monsignor O 'Donovan is the oldest surviving member of the Mudgee Hospital Committee. At the Hospital Committee meeting recently," the president welcomed .Monsignor O'Dono van "back to his -seat, and expressed the hope that they "would have him amongst thehi"for man? years'. . '.' The esteem in which the Hon. Frank McDonnell, M.L.C., of Queensland (who for so' many, years rep-res-ented Fortitude Valley in the Assembly, but had to" retire through ill-health), is held by his former constituents^ vvrtas strikingly shown recently, when Mtr. McDonnell was, presented with an illuminated 'address and gold watch for himself and a bracelet .and- brooch pendant for Mrs. McDonnell. At the Melbourne Celtic Club's annual smoke concert Mr. Justice Higjgjins said :: — • Just as a man suffering from hunger- or thirst is unable to do anything good until that hunger or thirst is appeased, so you cannot expect anything good to come from Ireland, until she has something in the way of sel^government.- It is by persistency you will win. England has been bluffed for many years by a small minority, who profess that they are the only people who can keep Ireland in order. The old Grand Jury system has gone. That is one good thing '. ___ _ . " Preaching at St. Michael's and St. John's Cathedral Bathurst, N.S.W., on Sunday, Sepx 15, the Very Rev. M. O'Reilly, C. M., referred, to the growth of Catholicism in , Bathurst during the past half century. 1 Fifty years ago the Catholics in Bathurst,' he said, ' had no standing, no position, and no consciousness of their power. All had now changed. They had position, power in the land and solidarity, and I venture to say that if there is one thing more than another that has contributed— not merely in Bathurst, but right 'throughr out the State, and, for the matter of that, throughout the Commonwealth — to the -wonderful solidarity of the 'Catholic people it is their union with their bishops and priests! a.nd the solid phalanx they, presented. It was the result of the attitude of antagonism they had been forced to take up owing to the education nue&sure introduced by the late Sir Henry Parses.' The famous Besses o' th' Barn Band visited Geelong recently, and on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 15 paid a- visit to St. Augustine's" Orphanage, where they were receivr ed by the Brothers and~ the bioys. Rev. Bro. Kerrins showed the visitors over the institution, after which the" Orphanage "band, under the conductorship of Mr. Percy Jones, rendered a few selections in a manner that evoked warmi praise from , all present. Several members of the visiting band, spoke in very" complimentary terms of the playing of the St. Augustine Band! Mr. Beagle,, secretary of the' Besses o' th' Barn, " said that as- soon as they reached Australia they "were told that they would hear St. Augustine's Band and Percy Jones. Now that they had done so, they were satisfied that St. Augustine's was the best boys' band, in the world. They would like to meet Percy Jones iiTEng-' land at the time of the Belle* Vue contests at Crystal Palace, when they would introduce him' to all the leading bandmasters in Great Britain, and ~ entertain him at their own place. They felt that they could not pay a, better compliment to the Australians in return for the kindness that had been extended to them.

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