Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 10 December 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

His Eminence Cardinal Moran laid the foundation-

stone of a new church at Waitara on Sunday, November 22. The total cost of the building will be about £1400. The collection at the ceremony amounted to over £300.

A mendicant sentenced to 24 hours' gaol the other day by the Ballarat Bench produced credentials to prove he was Arthur Coleridge, physician and surgeon, and brother of the late Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of England.

Colonel Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of New Guinea, is a son of the late Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, and was educated at Oxford, where his brother Gilbert is now Professor of £reek. Before going to New Guinea he was Colonel of the Sydney Irish Rifles.

The Rev. J. J. Ferris, assistant to the Rev. T. O'Neill, of the Sacred Heart Church, Casterton (Victoria), died on November 23 at Casterton from heart failure. Father Ferris, who was 33 years of age, was born at Killarney, Ireland. He was first stationed at Ballarat, and from there he went to Casterton a few years ago.

The foundation-stone of the new convent being erected at Inverell, at a cost of £4000, was laid on Sunday, November 22, by the Right Rev. Dr. O'Connor (Bishop of Armidale). Father English (Inverell) and Father Collender (Bjngara) assisted. The weather was showery, and there was only a moderate, attendance. £138 was placed on the stone. Of the £4000 required, £2000 is in hand, £500 having been contributed by the Sisters of the Inverell Convent and £500 by the Gunnedah Convent.

The death has taken place at Rockhampton of the Rev. Mother Mary Colomba Nugent,' of the Order of Mercy. A native of Tipperary, Ireland, Mother Colomba was sister of the late Rev. Father Nugent, and of Mrs. Dalton, wife of Mr. T. T. Dalton, K.C.S.G., Consul for Spain, Sydney, and niece of the late Very Rev. Father Walsh, Townsville, and a relative of Mr. James Dalton, of Orange. Rev. Mother Colomba was about 43 years of age, and had been. a member of the Sisters of Mercy for the past 24 years.

After some 20 years of strenuous and successful labors in the work of giving missions (writes the Melbourne co--respondent of the Freeman's Journal), the Very Rev. M. J. Maher, CM., has resigned the office of Provincial, and has been succeeded by the Very Rev. S. Hegarty, CM. Father Maher is recognised as one of the ablest preachers in this State, and his invitations to the pulpit on important occasions have been numerous.

At the annual meeting of the supporters of St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, on November 23, on which occasion the Governor-General and State Governor made speeches, the collection amounted to £666 in cash, whilst the promises brought the amount up to £3000. Lord Dudley, in moving the adoption of the report, said: 'I cannot conclude without saying with what especial pleasure it is that I find myself taking part in the proceedings of this hospital, because I am well acquainted with the parent hospital in Dublin, from which it has sprung; and my visit to the hospital the other day, going around it, arid looking upon the kindly faces of the Mother Reetress and Sisters,, brought back to my mind a very happy period of my life, when my lot was cast among the warm-hearted and attractive people of the Emerald Isle.'

His Eminence the Cardinal presided over the Diocesan Synod, which was held in the Chapter Hall at St. .Mary's Cathedral on November 25: There were one hundred and thirty-eight priests present. This was the largest attendance ever recorded at, a Diocesan Synod in Sydney. The Very Rev. P. Byrne, P.P., Burwood, was appointed by his Eminence the Cardinal as a member of the Diocesan Consultors of Advice to the position rendered vacant by the death of the Very Rev. Dean Slattery. The Diocesan Examiners for the ensuing year are the Very Rev. Fathers J. P. Moynagh, P.P., and H. McDermott (President of St. Patrick's College, Manly), who were named by his Eminence the Cardinal, and the Right Rev.. Monsignor O'Brien and the Yen. Archpriest Sheehy, 0.5.8., who were selected by the clergy.