Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 11 August 1910, Page 1287

Intercolonial

04. Dr i k aor grandson of Peter Lalor, the hero of Eureka fetockade, has been appointed to the residential .staff of ot. Vincent s Hospital, Victoria parade, Melbourne. % Sunday, July 24, was a day of great rejoicing for the parishioners of Redfern, the occasion being the celebration of the silver jubilee of St. Vincent de Paul’s Church. , Rev. Father L. O’Keefe, of Orange, has been appointed to the charge of the Carcoar parish. The Rev. Father J A Dunne, of Wellington, has been transferred to Orange.’ Rev. Father T. O’Connell, of Turaut, was on July 20 presented by the Tumut parishioners with an address and a purse of sovereigns. Father O’Connell is leaving the parish having been transferred to Albury. In his reply he thanked the good people of Tumut for their generous gift. The annual report of St. Augustine’s Orphanage, Geelong, shows that during the year ended June 30, 1910, the daily average of boys in the institution was 237. The expenditure totalled £3973 10s 7d, including. £9l 3s 7d for buildings, and the cost of management and maintenance averaged £l3 5s 8d per head per annum, one of the lowest in the State. The fact that only £4 4s 4d was expended on. medicine is evidence that the boys have enjoyed good health. His Eminence Cardinal Moran (says the Freeman’s Journal ) celebrated the silver jubilee of his creation as Cardinal on July 27. He was elevated to the Cardinalate of the title of St. Susanna on July 27, 1885. His spiritual reign has glittered with wondrous works of religious activity, in which an adorning feature has been his justifiable zeal in the work of finishing the Cathedral, now entering on the stage of completion.

The Leinster Times writes:— 'The Rev. Dr. Brophy who is spending a few months with his friends after 20 years in Australia, complimented the people of Leighlinbndge last Sunday morning on _ their _ magnificent marble altar the gift of the greatest living Irishman to his native place. He also congratulated the congregation on the early introduction of the Sisters of Mercy to their midst, which is likewise due to the thoughtfulness and generosity of the Archbishop of Sydney. The feelings of his hearers were visibly touched when the speaker announced that before going aboard his ship in Sydney on February 16 his Eminence commissioned him to “carry his love*and affection to every shamrock in Leighlinbridge.” ’ . The primary schools at Enmore (says the Catholic Press), in which there are nearly 300 children, are conducted by the Sisters of Mercy (of the Parramatta community), who were without a convent of their own until recently. But not long ago they secured a fine property, right opposite St. Pius’ Church-school, in Edgeware road, and had it remodelled to suit their purposes. It is a commodious building, and was formerly known as Frankfort House. Both the convent and grounds were decorated on Sunday afternoon, July 24, when the blessing and opening ceremony was performed by his Eminence Cardinal Moran. The purchase of the property ran into £1680; for improvements and repairs £205 17s 2d was paid, and for furniture £159 15s lOd, making in all £2045 13s, Speaking at the opening of the new Convent of Mercy, Enmore, on Sunday, July 24, his Eminence Cardinal Moran said that the work of arranging for the completion of St. Mary’s was progressing most satisfactorily. It had been hoped by one of the speakers that the rich people of Sydney and of Australia would assist in the work. Whatever the rich might do, the poor people of Australia had done their duty in the past, and were doing it at the present time. A great many names had appeared on the roll of honor. He was confident that the roll would bring in £50,000 by January. If that were so, then they would commence the foundation of the completion of the Cathedral. The contributions promised by the clergy already amount to £7OOO. The total up to July 25 stood at £9400.

The Perth (W.A.) correspondent of the Age thus wires to that journal:—The Colonial Secretary has issued a reply to the Rev. Mr. Tregear’s statement at the Orange demonstration that the Catholic Mission at Beagle Bay is a big cattle station, run under the cloak of religion, and to his challenge to Labor members to move in Parliament for the mission’s balance sheet. The last two balance sheets for 1908 and 1909 the Colonial Secretary says are available to anyone at his office. The former shows receipts from stock, £49; from pearling boat, £567; Government grant for feeding, clothing, and educating 109 native children and supporting a number of infirm blacks, £768; donations, £450. The expenditure —General including staff, £403; interest on overdraft, etc., £189; working pearling boat’ £443; feeding and clothing aborigines, £1062; outstanding debts, £969; debit balance, £1132. The second balance sheet shows a debit of £SOO for 1909. The mission received a subsidy of 5d per day for native children, against lOd per head of Anglican and Salvation Army institutions in the south-west. The mission holds as an aboriginal trust 10,000 acres, but without the £SOO a year granted by the religious Order in other parts of the world the mission could not be maintained. Money had to be borrowed in order to' obtain the- stock.