Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 10 March 1910, Page 395

Intercolonial

/o , Th building of St. Columba’s College at Springwood (Sydney) has been , completed. ' . XT The Right Rev. Dr Chanrion, S.M., Vicar-Apostolic or New Caledonia, passed through Sydney.. recently on his way to Rome, where he will pay his visit ad limina. ■ n The . Very Rev. Dean Phelan, V.G., who was a classrellow_ of the Bishop-Designate of Lismore, Very Rev. John Carroll, P.P. (Moss Vale, New South Wales), as to preach the consecration sermon in St. Carthage’s Cathedral, Lismore, on Sunday last. His Eminence the Cardinal-Arch-bishop of Sydney was to perform the consecration ceremony, and was to be assisted by two, of the suffragan Bishops of the Province of Sydney. The Hon. H. E. King, late Crown Prosecutor of the Queensland District Courts, died recently at his residence, Hillside, Raymond Terrace, South Brisbane'' (says (the Sydney i Teaman s Journal ). Deceased was' a son of the late Hon. Captain King, of Sligo, Ireland, ho was a son of the £ Black-whiskered ’ Earl of Kingston, The deceased was also a first cousin of the late Captain King Harman, and belonged to the ascendancy class in Ireland but he was heart and soul an Irishman, and was proud of his country and loved its people. St. Patrick’s Day demonstration this year in .• Melbourne will be on a very ambitious scale. There will be a grand Irish national concert at the Town Hall on March 17, at which his Grace the Archbishop will deliver i a patriotic speech, and his Excellency the State Governor and suite will be present. On March 19: the grand procession through the city will leave St. Patrick’s Hall at 12 o’clock. Sports will be held at the Exhibition Building, and the Governor will review 2400 cadets from the Catholic schools. In the evening a programme of amusements will be carried out in the Exhibition Building. His Grace the Archbishop of Hobart arrived recently at Queenstown, on the West Coast of Tasmania, and was met at the railway station by Fathers O’Regan and Shinnick, the Warden, Mr. Webb (Mayor), Messrs. Cundy, Powell, McKenzie, some forty members of the H.A.C.B. Society, and the children attending the convent - school! Mr. Webb officially welcomed his Grace, and assured him that, apart from members of his own flock, there were many others in the town who desired to welcome him, on account of his broadmindedness and that humanitarianism which had won him golden opinions throughout Tasmania. They could not forget, too, how the advancement of the State had occupied a foremost position in his thoughts. Though sorry to lose the Very Rev. Dr. Carroll, Bishopelect of Lismore, who has been for over six years their pastor, the people of Moss Vale (says the Catholic Press ) are _ naturally delighted at his elevation to the episcopacy. Whilst in Moss Vale he endeared himself to everyone, and his popularity was demonstrated in a marked way ibn the evening of February 17, when the Moss Vale Hall was crammed to the doors by over 800 parishioners and friends of Dr. Carroll, who assembled from all parts of the district,- to farewell him and present him with an address and a purse of 175 sovereigns. Nor was it an entirely Catholic gathering. It included many representatives of other denominations, who were desirous of showing their appreciation of Dr. Carroll’s work, and anxious to congratulate him on his promotion to the important diocese of Lismore. Bishop Duhig returned to Rockhampton on Saturday afternoon, February 19, after an absence of nine months in America and Europe. He was given a most enthusiastic reception, a great crowd of people assembling at 4he railway station, despite the intermittent showers of rain. A procession of Hibernians and school children accompanied his Lordship to St. Joseph’s Cathedral, where the ‘Te Deum ’ was sung, and the Rev. Father J. Gallagher, who has been administering the diocese during the Bishop's absence, read an address of welcome on behalf of the priests, the congregation, the Hibernian and Young Men’s Societies. His Lordship delivered an eloquent reply. A number of priests and prominent people from all parts of the diocese were present. On Sunday evening Dr. Duhig gave an interesting account of his audiences with the Pope, who gave two free bursaries in the College ‘of Propaganda, Rome, for priests destined to labor in the diocese of Rockhampton. These represent a money value of about £2OOO. A benefactor of the diocese in Ireland also placed £BOO in All Hallows College, Dublin, for a similar purpose.