Intercolonial .

New Zealand Tablet, 7 October 1909, Page 1595

Intercolonial .

•■ ■ w -■ The Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly, of the Thames,- visited Townsville recently, and preached on Sunday, September 12-, .in. the Sacred Heart Church. - Among those -who -were present at. the Requiem Mass for the late Mother Mary of the Cross at St. Ignatius' ' Church, Norwood, S.A., .was the Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Way. . ■- The Rev. Father D. McCarthy, the well-known Yin- ' centian missioner, has returned to Australia from Ireland, and will be attached to the staff of the monastery at Malvern, Victoria. In the private chapel of the Archbishop of Melbourne on Sunday, September 19, "his Lordship the Bishop of Sale (says the Advocate) administered the Sacrament of Con.firmation to 52 4 adults, who had recently been .received into the Church. _.The Bishop of Wilcannia was -63 years of age on September 21. He is the senior, suffragan Bishop of New South Wales, being consecrated first Bishop of Wilcannia on August 14, 1887. He is a native of King's County, Ireland, and lias been 38 years in" Australian > Miss Bessie Philomena Clarke, who, obtained highest ~ marks" in the Commonwealth at the recent telephone examinations (says the Melbourne Tribune), is a pupil of " Loreto Ladies' College, Dawson street, Ballarat. - More than a thousand candidates presented .themselves for the examination. ' ■>. c-> . Mrs. Dwyer, who died at Engowr-a ' recently, at - the - advanced age of 101 years, arrived from Ireland with two brothers and' seven sisters in 1853, and. most of her relatives are still alive. Her descendants "are two" sons, one daughter, 20 grandchildren', 29 . great-grandchildr.en, ' and three great-great-grandchildren. * - ' . His Grace tlie Archbishop of Melbourne (says the Advocate of September 25) -is daily gaining in health and strength, the invigorating spring season in Bendigo greatly aiding his rapid recovery from' the effects of his recent illness. It will be some weeks, however, before the Archbishop resumes his episcopal duties. The 23rd anniversary of the translation of his Grace from the Bishopric of Galway to the Archiepiscoj>al See of Melbourne occurred on ' September -29. „. - - The Church of SS. Peter and Paul, South Melbourne, ' was crowded on Sunday afternoon, September 19 (says .the Advocate), when his Lordship the Bishop of Sale (Right Rev. Dr. Corbett) administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 760 children, and 60 adults of either sex. The total, 820, is believed to constitute a record for this "State.- The nearest approach 'to this number was 800, when the late Dr. Goold administered Confirmation at St. Kilian's, Bendigo, just prior to the formation of the Ballarat and Bendigo dioceses. A very enthusiastic meeting of the clergy of the city was held in the Chapter Hall, Sydney, on September 22, to consider in what form they should give expression to the reverence and respeot in which they held their CardinalArchbishop, on the occasion of his Australian Silver . Jubi- - and also a money testimonial, to be devoted to whatever lee. It was (says the Catholtc Press) decided to offer the . Cardinal on Sunday; October 3, a congratulatory address, purpose his Eminence might think fit. A subscription list was opened, and the sum of i>36o was subscribed in a few minutes. The Right Rev. Dr. O'Connor, Bishop of Armidale, addressing his congregation a few Sundays ago, said that the cost of the proposed Cathedral would be from £20,000 to '£25,000, bxit the amount involved in the edifice he contemplated erecting would be but .£15,000. He did not intend to incur any debt, because interest charges were an incubus on the congregation . of any parish. Up to tho present time the' amount in hand and duly promised totalled over £7000, and he -had yet to visit about one-half of liis diocese. This visitation he hoped to have completed by Easter next year, by which "time he trusted to have £9000 at least in hand, when tenders could be called and the foundation-stone duly laid. The Catholics of Ballarat heard - with, regret " of the" death of the Rev. .Timothy O'Neill, pastor of Casterton,.. which sad event took place at the presbytery on Friday morning,- September 17. - The painfulness of the sensation . was intensified by the fact that "many friends and acquaint tances had seen Father O'Neill, apparently in full" strength and vigor, out driving on the previous afternoon (says the Casterton News), and to such, especially, of .his demise so shortly after came as a grievous shock. The late Father O'Neill was born in County. Limerick in 1844,and was- therefore 65 years of age at the time' of his demise. He was educated at the Seminary, County Waterford, and afterwards at Thurles College, County Tipperary, where he passed through his theological course during a term of four years, at the close of which he was ordained a priest for <the Australian mission in 1873 — 36 years ago,