Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 1 June 1911, Page 1027

Intercolonial

Amongst the inter-State Hibernians preesnt at the annual Communion breakfast of the Sydney branches, held recently .at St. Mary's Hall, was Bro. J. R. Snowball, a convert to the Catholic Church, and a cousin of the Victorian champion of^.Grangeism.

Judge Cussen, of Melbourne, who, with his wife, is now in Europe, lost by death the other day Herbert Walter, his fourth son.'... He was a student at Xavier College, Kew, and dux of his class. When his parents left a few weeks ago the boy was in good health. Judge Cussen is returning from England immediately.

St. Patrick's Day is every year becoming a greater success in Australia. The returns in Sydney, Melbourne, and Ballarat were handsome, and now the little town of Sale, in Victoria, publishes a balance sheet that shows a profit of £216, which goes to the Primary Schools' Maintenance Account.

Mother Mary Francis Joseph, of the Convent of Mercy, Warrnambool, Victoria, died suddenly from apoplexy a few days ago: She was a native of Portarlington, Ireland, and was 51 years of age. She was the eldest daughter bf the late Mr. John Dunne, who was the agent for Lord Portaidington. When only 20 years old she left Ireland, and joined the Sisters of Mercy at Warrnambool in 1881, His Grace the Coadjutor-Archbishop has recovered from his recent illness sufficiently to return to St. Benedict's Presbytery from St. Vincent's Hospital (says the Catholic Press). The condition of the Right Rev. Monsignor Q'Haran, who is still at St. Vincent's Private Hospital, continues to improve. It is expected that he will be able to leave his bed in the course of a few days. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has made the following clerical changes in the archdiocese:—The Rev. J. J. Egan is transferred from Williamstown to Coburg; the Rev. D. Gjjldspink,' from lona to Williamstowri;-; the Rev. F. Conlon, from Coburg to Iona; the Rev. J. M'Keon, from North Fitzroy to Mentone; the Rev. P. Cremin, from Carlton to Oakleigh; the Rev. Gavan Duffy to Carlton; the Rev. T. Walsh, from Dandenong to Castlemaine; and the Rev. C. Conlon, from Castlemaine to Dandenong. The Rev. Father Terence Brown, who has been working in Victoria, has been appointed Rector of the Redemptorist Monastery, Waratah, in succession to the Very Rev. Father P. M. Lynch, C.SS.R., who, with Fathers Mitchell and Gilmartin, sailed, from Sydney during Easter week for the Philippine Islands to take charge of the Order's missions there. Father Brown (says the Catholic Press) has just concluded a series of missions in the.Ballarat diocese. Until he was appointed Bishop of Perth, Dr. Clurie/was'Rector of the Redemptorist House in the Westralian capital. 'Now Rev. Father Henry I. O'Donnell, C.SS.R., of Waratah, has been appointed successor to Bishop Clune.

Missionary : work, as conducted by the Marist Fathers, is progressing satisfactorily in the Solomon Islands (says the Freeman's, Journal). Very Rev. Father Forestier, S.M., the Prefect-Apostolic of the mission in the northern portion of the group, who came to Sydney by the Moresby, speaks hopefully of the mission prospects. Ten years ago the Marist Fathers commenced to labor in the mission field of the Solomons, and now there are five mission stations, besides ten schools—five for the boys and five for the girls. The male schools are taught chiefly by the natives who have been converted to Christianity, and the girls' schools are in charge of a Sisterhood. The natives who wish to embrace Christianity undergo a course of training for three years, and at the end of that period they are baptised into the Catholic faith. There are some 400 converts already admitted to Church membership, ; while about : 500 more are under training. " ' ' "'-'' ' '•

His Eminence Cardinal Moran on Sunday, May 14, Messed and laid the foundation .of additions to Lewisham Hospital, which is in charge of the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company of Mary. The additions will cost about £13,000, and the amount received at the ceremony, together with contributions from other sources, totalled about £2600. It is a remarkable thing (say sthe Catholic Pres*) that while the managements of some of the great hospitals which are heavily subsidised ? by the State are crying out that they find it difficult to carry on, the Catholic hospitals, which, on the other hand, receive not a farthing by way of aid from the public funds, are not only doing the same work as they have been for years past, but are considerably expanding it. It is only a few months since considerable improvements were effected at St. Vincent’s at a cost of £6OOO, and now the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company ,of Marv, who have charge of the far-famed Lewisham Hospital, are having a new wing added to that institution at an estimated expenditure of , £13,000. The wards at Lewisham, which has a reputation for excellence that even extends beyond the limits of Australasia, contain never a vacant bed; as soon as one patient goes, another is ready to take his or her place, so appreciative has the medical profession become of the abilities of the nuns who minister there. Like the rest of our Catholic institutions, it is open to every class, creed, and color, and it is a fact that rnnrr. than half the patients treated belong to non-

Catholic denominations.