Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 28 October 1909, Page 1715

Intercolonial

His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne is now-com-pletely restored to health and has returned to. Melbourne from D.eniliquin, "where he had been staying. . His 'Excellency Lord Chelmsf ord visited the. Convenf'of Mercy, Goulburn, on the occasion of a garden fete in honor of the golden jubilee of the Sisters of Mercy. A new church at Narrandera, erected at a cost of about £5300, was blessed and opened by the Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher (Bishop of Goulburn) on Sunday, October 10. - The Right Rev. Dr. Corbett, Bishop of Sale, .will leave for Rome in January, and it is probable (saye the Advocate) that the Right Rev. Dr. Reville, O.S.A. (Bishop of Sandhurst) will also leave for Europe next year; ' y .A letter received in Lithgow by the last Home mail "" from Rev. Father M. Hogan (written from Dublin under date August 26), stated that he was about to enter a private hospital in Dublin to undergo an operation for. appendicitis. , - • The West Maitland parishioners have set a splendid example to the other parishes in a generous response to the appeal for the establishment of the Bishop Murray Memorial Orphanage. Already over £800 has been assured in cash or promises. His Lordship the Bishop of Sale has conferred on the Very Rev. E. J. Colman, of Morwell, the title of Dean. All the priests were assembled at' Sale for the annual retreat, and Dean Colman received the hearty- congratulations of his brother priests on the well-deserved honor conferred on him. Memories of a great Catholic layman (says the Oath' olic Press) are recalled by the death of Miss Agnes Duncan, who passed away at Woollahra on October 9. Miss Duncan was a daughter of the late William Augustine Duncan} K.C.S.G., who was for many years Collector of Customs, and from 1839 to 1845 the editor of the first Catholic newspaper in Australia, the Australian Chronicle. A practical step has been taken by the West Australian Government in the matter of providing land for retired civil servants. One hundred civil servants have beenplaced on land specially allotted for them in the State. The Premier states that their retiring allowance, .. where such is due, will be paid in two instalments, one in twelve months and the balance twenty-four months after leaving the service. - - His Eminence Cardinal Moran opened a garden v fete at St. Martha's Homej Leichhardt, on October 12, and in the course of his address said that (during the past twenty-one years, no fewer than fifty children had been yearly trained there as useful members of society. It was not that they were trained in the paths of virtue, but also in other branches which would be useful to them in their future careers of life. At the recent St. Patrick's Day Industrial Exhibition, the exhibits of St. Martha's Home had won the approval of the experts in a special manner. One of the leading experts, who had been sent by the Government to examine institutions in Europe," had told him that, with the exception of one institution in Belgium, he had not seen a collection of lace to be compared with that of St. Martha's Home, as shown at the St. Patrick's Day Exhibition. At a gathering in Bathurst on Sunday, October 10, the purchase of ' Logan Brae ' by the Hon. John Meagher, M.L.C., who has presented it as a training college to the Sisters of Mercy, was referred to. It was also stated that when news of Mr. Meagher's generous gift "was published, Mr. T. O'Loughlin, of Ballarat, came along and offered to furnish the building at a cost of nearly £1000, and that Mr. James Daltoh, of- Orange, had offered to donate £200 for the gravelling of the ground, and that both offers have been accepted. Very Rev. Father M. J. O'Reilly said that these generous gifts gave the lie direct to the statement that the" people were cajoled into giving by the priests, and , showed that Catholic laymen wer.e -prepared to back up their convictions of the necessity of religious education by dipping deeply into their pockets. The address presented by the" Hibernian Society to his Eminence Caf-dinal Moran was a beautiful work. of, art (says the Freeman's Journal).- - The address is" in book form, bound in the best green morocco. The front cover has sprays of shamrocks all around -it,-" with- the following words in gold lettering : ' Presented, to his Eminence Cardinal Moran on the occasion of the silver jubilee of his -arrival in Sydney, by the H.A.C.B. Society of New South Wales.' On the first page is a beautiful photo^ of his Eminence, on the top of which is the coat-of-arms; on the left side is a drawing of St. Mary's Cathedral in 1842, on the right side St. Mary's Cathedral in. 1900, at the bottom St. Mary's Cathedral when finished, Sydney Harbor, and Mosman's Bay.* On the second page is a beautiful drawing showing the round tower,, oak tree, and wolf dog, the Celtic cross; the Commonwealth and New -South Wales escutcheons, with the native flora of each State; also an artistic drawing of Ross Castle, Killarney, the new college at Springwood, the Irish coat-of-arms, and many other escutcheons emblematic of the society.