Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 27, Issue 21, 27 May 1909, Page 835

Intercolonial

Very little hope is now entertained for the recovery of the Right Rev. Dr. J. Murray, Bishop of Maitland. The Catholics of Ballarat intend to give a very hearty reception to his Lordship Bishop Higgins on his return to his diocese early next month. , — Another Eureka Stockade veteran, Mr. James Heffernan, of Kyneton, has passed away at the age of 81 years. He arrived in Victoria in 1850. Bishop Reville has received from Italy the magnificent painting of Pope Pius X., the work of the foremost painter in Rome, which he ordered for the Bendigo Art GalleryPrior to his departure for a new parish, t£e Rev. J. H. Morris was entertained by the parishioners of St. 'Francis' (Haymarket), Sydney, and presented with a purse of sovereigns. The opening of the third Australasian Catholic Congress in the last week of September next will be signalised by the ceremony of the laying of the first stone of the portion of St. Mary's Cathedral, yet to be built. A new presbytery, which had been erected at a cost of over £1800, was blessed and opened on Sunday, May 9, at Tumut, by the Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher, Bishop of Goulburn. The building was opened free of debt. Mother Clare, a few years ago Superior of Nazareth House, Ballarat, has been appointed Mother-General pro tern, of the Order of the Sisters of Nazareth. It is probable she will shortly be permanently appointed to the position. She is now working m England. "" Rev. Father P. J. Roche, Muswellbrook,. was welcome home by his parishioners after an extended Enropean tour. He declined to accept a presentation of a purse of sovereigns, and suggested that the money offered should be used for the nucleus of a fund for the improvement of tho presbytery. The Very Rev. Dean Phelan, V.G., has received a cable message stating that his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne sailed from London for Melbourne on Friday, April 30, by the R.M.S. Ortona, which is due in Adelaide on the 7th prox. A committee has been formed to organise the reception arrangements, but its members have been disappointed to. learn that the Archbishop has, in a letter to Dean Phelan, given strict injunctions that there shall be no testimonial or presentation of any kind on the occasion of his homecoming. The Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Bishop of Ballarat, is also a passenger by the same vessel. Miss Agnes G. Murphy (private secretary to Madame Melba) writes as follows to the Sydney Freeman's Journal: The paragraph in a recent issue of the Freeman, and which paragraph has been widely circulated any time these eight years, in which Madame Melba is made to say, "Who is this Amy Castles?" is a graceless invention, unjust alike to Madame Melba and Miss Castles. Immediately after Miss Castles arrived in London, I myself' introduced her to Madame Melba, who already knew all about her. Madame Melba was delighted with Miss Castles, heard her sing, and invited her to the opera at Covent Garden, also to her town house.' Bishop Boismenu, of British New Guinea, who was in Sydney for some months, is on his way to Yule Island, his episcopal centre (says the Catholic Press). His Lordship is a member of the Order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, whose Australasian headquarters are at Rand wick, and succeeded to the charge of the Vicariate Apostolic of British New Guinea on the retirement, at' the beginning of last year, of Archbishop Navarre, M.S.H., who still resides at Yule Island. In the vicariate 27 stations are established, each provided with church, schools, and residences. From the central stations 78 villages are regulai'ly visited and instructed. Assisting his Lordship are 26 priests, 21 lay Brothers, 38 nuns. There are 38 schools, with an average attendance of 1400 children, and two orphanages. Dr. de- Boismenu is a Frenchman, and was only 29 years of age when he was appointed Bishop of Babala and Coadjutor to Archbishop Navarre. He is about 38 years old, has been 14 years a priest, and has been a missionary in New Guinea for 11 years.

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