Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 28 July 1910, Page 1199

Intercolonial

SS Ppter F fl a ni ie p °rwu j an i’ f , or four yeara attached to feared to Temora S Cathedra t Goulbl,rn - has been transan hßh V® e Jp Dr 'i? elIy A Bishop of Geraldton, has E Ret pJw y S ev ; Drayne,of Lawlers, an& the c V oSl"rs Father Graber ’ DD - » f Cl “- to be diocesan Sister Mary Reginald, of the Sisters of St. Joseph who recently died at the Kensington Convent, Adelaide aged 38 years, was a sister of Hon. £.. O’Loughlin, M.L.A 'IK had been sixteen years a nun. 5 one naa The golden fleece and the golden grain are the staple sources of the wealth of the Commonwealth. The States have averaged £5,000,000 in the value of the wheat vffifd £33 iftToß and the 7 a l ue of the WOGI dip is given at £33,128, 49 6, as against £25,950,912 for 1909 1 The number of bales sent overseas from the Commonwealth was 2,434,643 The Right Rev. Mgr. Barry, V.G., of the Sandburg 27° C statin? that” let T f er . from Rome > under date May ? Reville was still in the hospital. His Lordship s health, however, was mending rapidly, and he expected to leave about the middle of June for Ireland having abandoned his intended Continental trip. He was to be accompanied by the Bishop of Sale (Dr. Corbett) and Rev. Father Rooney, of Elmore. : h ana r> i Michael Dwyer, one of the oldest residents of the Raleigh district of New South Wales, and a Crimean veteCnri. h ? ied -+L t the age of .78 years He was a native of and l with a_ young friend named Carney, joined the 15th Royal Irish Fusiliers at the age of 18. Together the? went with the regiment to the Crimea, and fought through that campaign. In one engagement Dwyer was struck on lifelong injury.*" 008 br ° ken she "’ the '™" nd P™ving * Q.’o+r? new ladies’ college, which is being conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, at Church Hill, was blessed and opened on Sunday afternoon, July 10. by his Eminence Cardin?! and^lmrs 116 a * arge . gathering of parishioners ?tructur? A,,/ 1 building occupies the site of an ancient structure that, until a few months ago, stood between St Patrick s Convent and the Marist Fathers’ house in Harngton street. From the Catholic standpoint it is one of !f\r i \Vill S n P ° ts H Sydney ’ for . it was in the cottageof Mr. William Davis, the site of which is now covered by the convent chapel , that the Blessed Sacrament lay concealed and treasured during the time that elapsed between 5 e F d X rtat^ n ° f Fat ie r< Jeremiah Flynn and the arrival of Fathers 1 berry and Connolly. . These and many- other interesting facts were recalled by his Eminence in the course bLn U perfo q iEed. addr6SS after the religious ceremony had'

n T The Rev, W. F. Reade, a pioneer priest of the diocese of Lismore, who retired from active work on the Northern Rivers four years ago and settled in Sydney, died at his home at M averley on July 8, at the age of 75 years (savs the Catholic Press). He was 42 years a priest Born on January 10, 1835, in St. Canice’s Confederate City Kilkenny Ins life embraced almost the whole history of the Church in Australia. At that date five priests ministered to the ants of 21,000 Catholics scattered throughout the s C Ce" On D a r t Till a +f' Blshop ad nat Jet landed on these snores. Ur. Ullathorne was Vicar-General, assisted bv four Irish Priests—-Fathers Therry, Connolly, McEncroe and Dowling. There were no churches, no schools, no teaching Orders. Now at Father Reade’s 'death, there arfnearlf a million Catholics in Australasia, and in New South Wales aboEt 250? are 400 priests, over 250 religious -Brothers about 2500 nuns, and, including colleges, boarding, high’ and primary schools, over 600 educational establishments g in which over 46,000 children are being trained. This progress Father Reade saw in his lifetime. progress

it By w yi late . Miss Sarah O’Neill, of Benburb W ( ? Se Allard street, Brighton (says the Advocate), a large amount of real estate was disposed of. . The-testator left estate of the value of £24,379, being realty £23 860 Tend P Grsonalt y x l9 By her will, dated December 22 1909, she appoints her cousin, Emma Hacker, as sole executrix,, and gives her Benburb House, with the jewellery - plate, and linen in it, and £6OO in cash. To Julia Mary Hacker she leaves the house known as lolanthe; to Marguenta the daughter of Mr. John McEvoy, of Sydney the house known as Elmg for life, and the income from the house known as Dulgabeena to . Sylvia, the daughter of Mr. John McEvoy, for her life. The residue of the estate the testator directs is to be .divided between the, Melbourne Alfred, Austin, and St. Vincent’s Hospitals, the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, St. Vincent de Paul’s Bovs’ and Girls' Orphanages, the Little. Sisters of the Poor, the Brighton’ Ladies Benevolent Society, and the Richard O’Neill College, at Gardenvale, which will, at some future date be used as a training college for ecclesiastical students - ’ At present the college serves as a novitiate for the Presentation