Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 15 December 1910, Page 2079

Intercolonial

The total subscriptions up to December 1 towards the completion of St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, amount to £66,404. As the result of an appeal on behalf of the building fund of St. Mary's Cathedral by his Eminence Cardinal Moran on Sunday, November 27, at Pymble, a sum of £IO2B was subscribed. His Grace Archbishop Kelly made an appeal on the same day at Newtown, when the subscriptions amounted to over £7OO.

His Eminence Cardinal Moran has received the following telegram from Father Bischofs, Broome, W.A., the scene of the disastrous cyclone: —' Mission schooner total wreck, Cape Buskerville. Rudder and anchors carried away. Whole night helpless, beaten about by storm. One Father, two Brothers, and crew—trying time. All safe, mission. Great distress. Loss, £700.' The Right Rev. Dr. Olier, S.M., Vicar-Apostolic of Central Oceanica, arrived in Sydney by the Tofua the other day, after a diocesan visitation of the islands of Wallis and Futuna. The disasters brought about by the cyclone in Futuna, when churches, convents, the presbytery, and other mission buildings were levelled to the ground, were extremely serious. Even stone walls were destroyed by the fury of the elements. In Wallis, in the short space of two months, the natives have built a stone seminary, 102 ft by 30ft, and 24ft high. But women and children helped unceasingly in the work.

An impressive ceremony (says the Wagga correspondent of the Catholic Press) took place in St. Eugene's Chapel, when Sister M. Veronica (Miss Phelan, Melbourne) pronounced the solemn vows of her holy profession and Sister M Helen (Miss Griffin, Nightcaps, N.Z.) received the habit of the Presentation Order. The Rev. Father Shannon was the celebrant of the Mass, and Rev. Father MulliS a » P e ™™« the ceremony in the unavoidable absence of the Right Rev. Monsignor Buckley. On the feast of St. Andrew his Eminence Cardinal Moran held an ordination at St. Mary's Cathedral. The following students from St. Patrick's College were raised to the priesthood:-Revs R. Darby, Sydney; J. J. Kelly, Brisbane; G. Herhhy, Sydney; J. Cusack, Sydney; J Roche, Sydney; F. Smyth, Adelaide: T. O'Brien, Melbourne; J. Harrington, Armidale; and L. O'Reilly, Armidale. Besides these, the Revs. James and John Kelly were ordained priests at . Maitland on December 8, and the Kev. Martin Gleeson at Ballarat on the same date. It will be heard with regret throughout the archdiocese of Melbourne, and far beyond it (says the Melbourne Advocate), that his Grace the Archbishop has suffered a family bereavement in the death of his sister (Rev. Mother Teresa) who may be said to have spent nearly the whole of her life of ,4 years in an Ursuline convent. The Church in Ireland has suffered a severe loss, as well as the Archbishop personally. But the loss carries with it its own recompense—the saintly nun who has just passed from the ranks of her distinguished Order in Ireland has assuredly gone to a great and everlasting reward. Rev. Mother Teresa was Superioress of the Ursuline convent, Sligo, and was two years the senior of his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne . The success of St. Patrick's College, Ballarat/ in winning two Ormond exhibitions, valued respectively at £3OO h!l£r\Z'J''f a T° ° f 1 { 80 " 8810 ? in the scholastic circles in Ballarat (says the Melbourne Argus). For many years the college has been remarkably successful at intermediate and University examinations, but this is the first time in its history that it has carried off two Ormond exhibitions at the same examination, and at which it also headed the AM J ino J l Vl ? llegeS i , The successful students are A. Mckean, of Hobart, aged 16, who is intended for the legal profession and G Hickey, of Nathalia, 18 years of age, who will take up the medical course at the University Ihe achievement of the last-named in securing senior honor; is remarkable ,n view of the fact that his performance in the chemistry subject was the result of only P a single year's studies in the laboratory at St. Patrick's College ' At the annual reunion of the friends and supporters of St. Vincent de Paul's Industrial Home, Westmead Sydney, it was stated that at the close of the financial war June 30 last, there were exactly 100 boys in the instituturn this being a record. 1 The admissions during the vear totalled 26, while several had gone out to places which had been procured for them. The health of tie bovs had bee remarkably good. The report continues: 'The aTI-i moorW work of the industrial training of the boys has been Carried out on progressive lines, and expansion has to be recorded the f S wf ++ i th « S n ° be K r P ,oof co " kl be horded than the fact that the hue workshops, erected a few years -Jo at a cost of about £I2OO are now being found too small for the home's requirements, and it is only a matter of the near future when the question of finding il commodation for the trade schools must Scelve conSderT t on. The importance of giving the hoys a sound and S tical industrial training has been insisted on year after year in the animal report, and both committee and Brothers are determined to make the system of industrial Sin* at Westmead as perfect as it is possible to be. The wisdom of tins policy is obvious. e " IS(U) m