Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 9 February 1911, Page 259

Intercolonial

At a meeting-of the Catholic laity, held oh January 21 in Perth, to organise a presentation to the new Bishop, Dr. Clime, the sum of £SOO was subscribed by those present.

His Eminence Cardinal Moran made an appeal on behalf of St. Mary’s Cathedral fund at Manly on Sunday, January 22, when subscriptions amounting to £llOO were received.

The Right Rev. Dr. Chine, the new Bishop of Perth, West Australia, will bo consecrated in March in his own Cathedral. His Eminence the Cardinal (says the Catholic Press) will journey to Perth to perform the ceremony.

His Grace the Archbishop of Brisbane has given a site for. the Christian Brothers’ College, Warwick, valued at £IOOO. The Age reports that there is over £IBSO in hand, and that the building is to be proceeded with at once.

His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne and his Lordship the Bishop of Ballarat were present on Sunday, January 22, at the ceremony of blessing and opening St. Virgil’s College, Hobart, which will be conducted by the Christian Brothers.

Bishop Dunne, of Wileannia, returned to Broken Hill on Friday, January 20, after a visit to the Holy Land and Europe. At the Sacred Heart Cathedral on the following Sunday his Lordship, who is the senior suffragan Bishop of the State, being consecrated in Goulburn in 1887, was presented with a gold chalice, the gift of the Catholics of the town, who gave him an enthusiastic welcome home.

A new college for the Christian Brothers has been erected at Townsville, in the Rockhampton diocese. The grounds and building involved an outlay of £6OOO. His Lordship Bishop Duhig, of Rockhampton, blessed and opened the new college on Sunday, January 22, The collections at the ceremony amounted to close on £IOOO.

The Rev. Father O’Shea, who had been stationed at Dungog for eight years, was presented with an illuminated address and purse of sovereigns prior to his departure for Taree. The Very Rev. T. Harrington, of Quirindi, who is about to visit Ireland, was recently presented with a gold watch and chain and sovereign case, and also a purse containing 182 sovereigns.

The Very Rev. Mgr. Barry, V.G., Sandhurst, has received a cable from the Bishop (Right Rev. Dr. Reville, 0.5. A.), notifying his departure from London. The Bishop was to meet the Right Rev. Dr. Corbett, Bishop of Sale, and the Rev. T. J. Rooney (Elmore) at Naples. Dr. Reville and Dr. Corbett are to receive a cordial welcome home about the end of February.

The presence of nuns at the Education Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral was quite an innovation (says the Catholic Press). It is indeed the first time in the history of Christendom that nuns have taken part in debates on the affairs of the Church. The Sisters not only took a keen interest in the proceedings, but entered into the discussions, and some of them spoke with remarkable oratorical ability, and made their arguments felt, too. The ablest women in Australia and the most highly educated are to be found in our Catholic convents.

It is the intention of his Lordship Bishop Carroll (says the Catholic Press) to erect the bell tower of St. Carthage’s Cathedral to a height of 86 feet, leaving the work of erecting the spire for another generation. The estimated cost of the tower and the erection of the bells is £6IOO, of which the sum of £4025 is already in hand, leaving a balance of £1895 to be raised. This sum, it is expected, will bo forthcoming in a very short time. A sum of £IOOO is still due on the bells, and an effort is to bo made to collect this amount in the southern portion of the diocese. . . . Vv;

His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has made the following clerical changes and appointments; The Rev. T. F. O’Sullivan has been transferred from St. Joseph’s, Collingwood, to the Dalyston mission. The duties have proved too much for the attention of one priest (Rev. M. Dolan) owing to the settlement at Wonthaggi. Father O’Sullivan will take up the work of building a church at Wonthaggi on the site recently acquired for that purpose. The Rev. A. May has been transferred from Flemington to Collingwood.

Rev. Father O’Connell, S.M., formerly of Christchurch, New Zealand, will this evening begin the exercises of an eight-day retreat for the Sisters of the Presentation Convent, Launceston (says the Monitor of January 13), He has already given retreats to the Presentation Sisters, St. Mary’s, Hobart, and to the Sisters of St. Joseph of the State, who assembled for their annual retreat at the convent, Newtown. The district president and the president and officers of the Launceston branch of the Hibernian Society purpose waiting on Father O’Connell on his arrival i.n Launceston to tender him on behalf of the society a welcome to the State. i