Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 3 December 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

The sacerdotal golden jubilee of the Holy Father was celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, on Sunday, November 15. His Eminence Cardinal Moran presided at Solemn High Mass. The occasional sermon was preached by the Rev. Father J. Campbell, C.SS.R. '

The Very Rev. Dean Phelan, V.G., laid the foundationstone of additions to the Presentation Convent, Windsor, on Sunday, November 15. Addresses were delivered by the Dean, Bishop Corbett, Dean Hegarty, and others. The new building will provide much-needed requirements for the Sisters and boarders. The contract price is

Lady Gibson-Carmichael opened a three-days' bazaar at the Melbourne Town Hall on November 12, in aid of the building fund of the Girls' Training Home, Oakleigh, where 116 girls are receiving the care of those devoted ladies, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The additions (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman's Journal) will cost between ;£6ooo and This convent undertakes the work of reforming and training girls, who come to them through the medium of the Children's Court and many other sources. There is no regard for creed, and purely undenominational training is con* ducted by the nuns. Within the last few months a new wing has been built, and is almost ready for occupation. All the improvements have been designed for the comfort of the inmates, and the new accommodation means that 250 girls will be enabled to receive training and care through the most critical years of their lives. At present there are 116 inmates at the Oakleigh Convent, and class-rooms have to be used as temporary domitories.

Mr. Quinlan, who has been re-elected Speaker of the West Australian Parliament, is a Tipperary man by birth, and is one of the leading Catholic laymen of the Commonwealth (says the Catholic Press). In recognition of his labors on behalf of the Church, Leo XIII. created him a Knight of St. Silvester, and he was solemnly invested in the Cathedral, Perth, with the insignia of the Order by his Lordship Bishop Gibney. He is an enterprising public citizgn, and one of the most respected men in the Western State. And there is no more patriotic Irishman in the Commonwealth, as a visit to his home in Adelaide Terrace, Perth, will convince anyone. Prominent among the pictures of Irish life on his walls is one of Robert Emmet, with his speech from the dock.

The Rev. Dr. Guiseppe D. Capra, of Milan, who is visiting Australia with a view to collecting information with regard to his countrymen here, was spent a few weeks in South Australia (says the Southern Cross). He has visited Port Pirie, Kadina, Wallaroo, and Moonta, and also Broken Hill. He is a member of the Salesian Order, and is a Doctor of Science and Agriculture of the University of Milan, and holds recommendations from the Italian Foreign Office and from the acting viceconsul in Adelaide. Dr. Capra desires to express his thanks and appreciation of the kindness and hospitality extended to him in Western Australia and South Australia by the Catholic clergy, secular and regular, and also by the Government. His Grace Archbishop O'Reily has* commended his mission, and bespeaks the assistance and sympathy of priests of the archdiocese. Dr. Capra finds the Italian population few and scattered in the places he has visited, but met some 1600 in West Australia, mostly engaged as miners and in the timber trade.

An impressive spectacle (cays trie Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman's Journal) was witnessed in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, November 15^ when over 3000 men received Holy Communion in a body. - True, the leading feature of o>e demonstration of Catholic faith and piety was the presence at the altar-rails of 2000 members of the Catholic Young Men's Society, but added to these were 1000 men not actually members, but still in complete sympathy with the objects and aims of the society, which, as has been more than once said by his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, is the pillar of the Church, and the mainstay of her future hopes. A few words of encouragement and of felicitation were given that array of Catholic «ianhood by the Very Rev. Dean Phelan, V.G. In the name of the Catholic Young Men's Society, a cable was despatched to his Holiness congratulating him on the celebration of his golden sacerdotal jubilee, and intimating that 3000 men .had that day offered their Communions for his intention.