Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 27 February 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

The Rev. Father Laughton, who is on his way out from Ireland, is to succeed "the late Dean Bean as priest of the Gfafton parish. | The Hon. Patrick A. McMahon G-lynn, of South Australia, will deliver the oration at the St. Patrick's Day celebrations, Sydney. - I His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne is expected to lca.e for Rome in April, and tlie Bishop cl Ballarat (Right Rev. Dr. Higginsj; will accompany his. Grace. A record collection was realised at the opening of the new church at Corrunan, in the .Coolac district, Victoria, on Sunday, February ;9, when £1800 in cash was handed in. The Revs. E. J. Luby (Brunswick), J. O'Neill (Castlemaine), T. O'Neill (Casterton), and E. O'Brien (Collingwood'), all of Victoria, have left for" a twelve months' tiip to Europe. The parishioners gave their respective pastors an enthusiastic send-off. At the close of cne of the clerical -conferences , in Bathurst,- his Lordship the Bisthop conferred upon. Very Rev. Father James Kelly, of .Larcoar, the high dignity of Archdeacon of the Diocese of Bathurst— a; well merited" honor, which his long and exemplary career as a senior priest deserved* His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne - has made the following: clerical changes :— Rev. J. J. McCacter "~ to be locum tenens at Brunswick during the absence of Rev. E. J. Lubyy; Rev. T. English to be locum tenens at Castlemaine during the absence of Rev. T. O'Neill ; Rev. M. A. Vauigjhaw,, freto Geelong to Dandenong ; Rev. W. O'Farrell from Dandenong to Brunswick ; Rev. M. Ryan, from St. Kilda West to Els tern wick ; Rev. J." A. Gibbons, from South Yarra to Heidelberg ; Rev. P. H. Boyle, from Footscray to Colling wood. ; - His Eminence Cardinal Moran on leaving Sydney for Auckland, infoimed a ' Catholic Press ' representative t.iat he would prob-atly go' to Europe this year. .He has received 1 a very pressing invitation to the Euchar-i-tic Congress in London, to be htld~ in October, at which' there will be Cardinals from the United States, Rome, Spain, and. Germany, 1 btesides .other distinguished prelates froni all parts of the world. ' It- will be the' greatest gathering .of Catholic ecclesias+ics ever seen in Enjand. 'Besides,' s.id his Eminence, 'I should Ji ie to ta'.ie part in the Pope's Jubilee celebrations in Rome, and I am .deeply interested in the University question in Ireland.' The death is announced of Rev. Thomas Leahy, S.J., who passed away at i St. Vincent's- Hospital, Melbourne, on February 11, after, a .few days' illness. Fa•^rhjr Leahy was born in Ballinasloe, Gal way, in 1846. He pursued his course of philosophy .and theology in til 3 Jesuit colleges of France and Belgium. At the College- of the Immaculate ] Conception, Summer Hill, Athlone, Co. Roscommon, he had as fellow students Rev. M. Wajtscn, S. J. ; Sir Antony MacDonnell, now Under-Secretary for Ireland- ; and Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1865. He srent over 20 years teaching in the colleges of his Order in Sydney- and Melbourne, and In 1890, was appointed rector of St. Patrick's College, East Melbourne. He ceased his rectorship of this college in Jvne, 1896, but was for a number of years a member of the professorial staff. His Eminence the Cardinal-Archbishop of Sydney has made the following clerical changes in the Archdiocesp :— The Rev. P. C. Cretan (of 'St. Patrick's Colv lege, Manly) has been appo-'nted to the charge of the Proposed St. Columba's Junior College and Seminary for Foreign Missions to l:e erected at =Springwood. The • Rev. J. Whyte (Inspector of Primary School?) will ta y e charge of St. James' parish, Forest Lod-ge. during the absence of the Rev. P. L. Coonan, P.P. ; the-, Rev° A. J. Hosran _(Mount Carmel) has been appointed Inspector of Dioceasn schools, and will reside at -, St Jamas', Forest Lodge ,; the Rev. P.- J. Bauph fCampVelltown) will take charge of St. Thomas's parish Lewlsham, until the return of the Rev. T. Phelan PP • the Rev. D. Byrne (recently doing; duty in the 'diocese of Goulburn) has been anr,ointed to Moss Vale * the Rev. p. Sheehy (Moss Vale) will take up a professorship a t St. Patrick's College, Manlyv oiessoi