Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 27 October 1910, Page 1771

Intercolonial

. The Roll, of Honor in connection with the building kt. Mary s Cathedral, Sydney, now amounts to over SjJiO, uuu. Out of a dozen Australians who are at present studying for the priesthood at All Hallows Seminary, Dublin, no fewer than seven hail from the Christian Brothers’ College. Nudgee. 6 ’ A highly successful bazaar was held recently in the Malvern Town Hall in aid of the Vincentian Fathers’ beautiful church in Stanhope street. The mantle of the late Veiy Rev. M. J. Maher, C.M., has fallen on worthy shoulders, in the person of the Very Rev. Father Hegarty, C M by whose efforts the fine new church adjoining the residence of the Vincentian Fathers has been built. We (Freeman’s Journal) are informed that the following bequests provided for in the will of the late F. B. I reeluJl, who died March 12, 1908, have been paid by his executors:— St. Johns ? College bursary, £1000; St. PatCollege, Manly, . bursary for ecclesiastical students, nfnn ; £® wl ®£ a ™ Hospital, £100; Westmead Boys’ Home £100; St Martha s Home, Leichhardt, £100; Industrial School, Manly, £100; total, £IBOO. +i °! IC 9 (says the Brisbane Age) we congratulate the Christian Brothers, of Gregory terrace, on the highly successful year they are having. Last week we conveyed the astonishing news of their /securing five out of the first six places in the Federal Civil Service, and to-day we offer our si .merest congratulations on their securing ten places in the State Civil Service examination. In both Professional am Ordinary divisions they have secured places—five in each. Such continued success speaks for itself and their achievements are their best friends and flatterers. Cotton-growing for the- time being (writes the Brisbane correspondent of the Catholic Press ) is confined to .the Capella district. The total area under crop is 96 acres divided among eight or ten farmers. The yield last year averaged 10001 b per acre, and was sold, delivered on trucks at Capella, for l s d per lb. Everybody has seen kapok, or, at least, rested his head upon it. Most of our pillows are fi fin 'Vi ‘S , Australia uses annually from 10,000 to 12,000 bales of kapok, which is imported principally from Java. In so far as soil and climate is concerned there is no reason why Queensland should be dependent upon a foreign country for its supplies of silk cotton. The plant thrives everywhere in tropical Queensland, and bears heavy crops. By special request (says the Freeman’s Journal) his imminence Cardinal Moran postponed all celebrations of the Jubilee of the Cardmalate until the close of St.'Mary’s ban*. , The autograph letter from his Holiness the Pope intended for that occasion has already reached his Eminence. It is understood that the Bishops of the provinces have intimated their intention of being present in Sydney on Sunday October 23, in order to join with the Cardinal on that festive occasion. Owing to the excitement of electmn times the matter of another lay celebration must be deterred for some future date, probably when the work of Ins Eminence s appeal for funds for the completion of St. Alai} s Cathedral, in all the parishes, shall have been more advanced. His Eminence Cardinal Moran made an appeal for funds for the completion of St. Mary’s Cathedral at Woollahra on Sunday, October 9, when a sum of £1029 was subscribed. In announcing the result of the collection, Rev. bather Kennedy said: ‘ These figures say everything I could wish to say to your Eminence, and I" ask you to receive these subscriptions, which are the united efforts of each and every one of us, and which give expression to our loyalty, devotion, and affection. We arc .grateful to you for coming here to-day, ; and congratulate you on the attainment of your 80th year; also on the fact that you are about to celebrate your Cardinalatial Silver Jubilee. When I, ope Leo XIII. elevated you to the Cardinalate, I do not know exactly whether he had in his mind’s eye at the time that you would lie about the grandest support of Catholicity in this Australian land. There are no more wonderful labors than yours, and your name will go down in history We wish' you many, many years of life, and, God grant, that your days will be prolonged to see St. Mary’s completed.’ J A new Samaritan Convent was blessed and opened at Gawler oil Sunday, October 2, by his Grace the Archbishop of Adelaide. he collection taken up at the ceremony amounted to £240. His Grace the Archbishop, in his address, said when it was considered that the Catholic populatin'! consisted of only one-seventh of the total population C Aooon™ i at i ’ i tUey SlOU $ be proud to think that over iJJ»,UUU had been subscribed during the past fifteen years on the building of churches, convents, and schools and charitable institutions. This was leaving out of consideration altogether the fact of the upkeep of 60 priests and 300 nuns. The subscribing of this great sum was a stupendous undertaking, and had entailed much self-sacrifice, as it was well known that the Catholic community was not a financially strong one. However, they were willing to make any sacrifices in the cause of education, only the children must be given religious instruction in the day schools. ,