Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 17 March 1910, Page 435

Intercolonial

t? A i te l an T abs ® nce of about twelve months in Europe i FebrX * *'° reSt Lodge returned to Sydney r . H i IS Lordship Bishop a Duhig dedicated St. Brigid’s Church, Rosewood (Queensland), bn Sunday, February ß 13 The church has been erected at a cost of about £2500. , a „ Hi® Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Dudley has notified his intention of being present at the Irish national concert, which will take place at the Sydney Town Hall on the night of March 17. (3yaney The 11 .- Father V. Suleau, S.M., of St. Patrick’s cent ]v PG 1 m d UPU successfully at Lewisham Hospital recentlj. Ihe operation was not so serious as anticipated lather Suleau is now progressing favorably. P .. Ve^ y T\T ReV * • Fahe A. Marion (Provincial of the Society of Mary in Australasia) left Sydney on February 28 on a visit to the New Caledonian mission. He Sbe absent for about four months. Before his return Father Marion will visit the New Hebrides Archipelago. With one voice (says the Freeman’s Journal) the T?Pv Sy i?n+l the T arcbd i°cese sounded congratulations to the Rev. Father John Carroll, P.P., of Moss Vale, when the announcement was made of his elevation to the purple. Appreciation and a tribute to his zeal and priestly qualiCardT™f “ an -5 e 011 February 28, when his Eminence the S a d p l ? al Pi ded over a large meeting of the clergy at the Chapter House, St. Mary’s Cathedral, at which the Bishop-elect of Lismore was presented by the clergy with an illuminated address, a gold chalice, and more than one bundled and fifty pieces of silverware and plate. The address was most artistically embellished with ex cellent representations of the famous Cathedral, Lismore eland, in one corner, and linked therewith is the Bishop’s Appropriately enough, an excellent painting of the Bishop-elect s new Cathedral, St. Carthage’s, Lismore adorns the opposite angle. The work of the address was greatly admired by the clergy, who manifested great interest in the artistic efforts of the Brigidine Convent, Randwick. The scroll bearing the inscription was profusely decorated with Australian flowers. Prominence was also given to fine pictures of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Drumcliff Cross, and the new Bishop s coat-of-arms. The gold chalice which the Bishop-elect received is a replica of the chalice M 6ssory 10 * “ ardina at k * s consecration by the priests His Grace the Archbishop, of Hobart officiated recently at the laying of the foundation stone of a Catholic church at the h orest, and in the course of his address on the occasion referred to the evils of land monopoly in 'Tasmania. A few years ago (said his Grace) I applied to "the directors in London of the Van Diemen’s Land' Company lor the purchase of one acre of land near the cross roads wheie other churches stand. I was prepared to pay any reasonable price, say £l5O for one acre. I was Sot particular as to the precise spot. Well, my answer from that London directorate was curt and decisive. It was to the effect that they were not prepared to sell any of their land T dear -fiends, if the powers of that company extended to where we now stand and beyond it, you, Catholics of, the Forest, might ask in vain, at any price for permission to erect a house of Divine worship. Thank God, there is some limit to the territorial power of that foreign company. One of yourselves has generously come forward and donated this fine site of nine acres for all tune to God s service for the sake of the Catholics of the I orest. lam well aware that in earlier days the VD L Company made grants of land in several townships W Catholics as well as for other church erections. The Pdirectorate of those remote times seem to have had a livelier sense of the responsibilities attaching to the territorial grant conceded to them in Tasmania by the British Crown H is deserving of notice that their curt refusal to me followed close upon the visit of one of the present directorate to Tasmania. Apparently the policy since that visit is fv,A ISt U ? On tb f y ery letter of their Crown grant. My fi lends, I hope it is not necessary at this time of day to remind you that the Crown is the people’s trustee Its reason of existence ls - the public welfare; and no action of the Crown in its various operative aspects is really valid w Inch places an obstacle in the way of a people’s normal expansion in . numbers and prosperity. I care little for the consequences of this Company’s refusal to sell an acre of land for Church purposes. What lam concerned with is the bar which it obviously sets to the progress of Tasmania; and here - to-day I wish to emphasise my conviction that all Tasmania ought to join in effective protest. I do nope that our people consciousness of self-respect will ' arrogance/ *° deal Wlth this anachronism in monopolistic