Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 15 June 1911, Page 1123

Intercolonial

A new Catholic Church is to be erected at Ballan, in the diocese of Ballarat, at a cost of £2500. The census makes, the population of Victoria, 1,315,000. In 1901 the figures were' 1,201,070. The approximate census populations of Melbourne and suburbs, within a radius of 10 miles from the G.P.0., is 591,830, as compared with 496,079 at, the census of 1901. These figures also are subject to amendment. ; Mother Mary Vincent Cummins, of the Brigidine Convent, Beechworth, Victoria, passed away recently at the age of 74 years. She came from Ireland a quarter of a century ago, and founded the convent over which she presided for nine years. The buildings,, which cost £IO,OOO, were planned and erected under her supervision. The Mother Superior of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Mount St. Canice, Sandy Bay, Hobart, died on May 25. She was a native of Mount Gambier, and was in her 60th year. She had been 23 years a member of the Order, which opened a home for penitent women at Hobart in 1893. This foundation was made from Abbotsford, Melbourne. The Month’s Mind of the late Rev. E. J. Luby, P.P., of Brunswick, was celebrated in St. Ambrose’s Church in the presence of some forty priests and a large congregation. At a meeting of the parishioners, presided over by the Rev,. M. D. Finan, it was decided to expend £4OO on a marble high altar, as a memorial to the deceased priest. • ' - C While en route to Queensland on a holidav (writes the Armidale correspondent of the Catholic Press the Rev. Father Quealy, of Wellington, N.Z., remained for a few days at the Bishop’s House, Armidale, and visited the places of interest in the city and district. Father Quealy has been in indifferent health for some time, and hopes to be benefited by his tour of the north. High Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in honor of the Feast of Pentecost, and in celebration of the seventy-second anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in Victoria, in 1839 (says the Melbourne Tribune). Rev. venture Geoghegan was the celebrant on the occasion, and the Mass was said in an old hay and corn store at the corner of Elizabeth and Little Collins streets, where the Colonial Bank now stands. Mr. Vernon C. Redwood, ex-Mayor of Toowoomba, has been asked to represent the New Zealand University at the inauguration ceremony of the Queensland University (says the Catholic Press). Mr. Redwood, who is a nephew of Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, has represented Drayton and Toowoomba in the State Parliament of Queensland, but was defeated at the 1909 general election. He is a young man, and one of the most popular men in Toowoomba. For some considerable time past grave fears have been entertained concerning the health of Rev. Father Matthew Horan, the revered parish priest of Gympie (says the Brisbane Age). When it became known that the Rev. Andrew Horan, parish priest of Ipswich, had journeyed to Gympie, the fears concerning the health of his brother were heightened. The many friends of the Rev. Father Matthew Horan, however, will be gratified to learn that he had so far recovered as to be able to assist Bishop Duhig in ' administering the Sacrament of Confirmation to 372 candidates at Gympie. The West Australian Government (says the Catholic Press) is making arrangements to try and secure some of the tens of thousands of Irish emigrants who are crossing the seas every yearmostly for the United States of America, Last year 32,623 men and women left Ireland for other countries, and they were mostly the young, virile and strong. Colonial Secretary Connolly, of W.A., has carefully explained that the wishes of himself and his Government are not to deplete Ireland, but to gain the ears of those already. determined to go to America, and point out to them the superior advantages of life in the western part of Australia over life in the United States or Canada. The credulity ■of Dr. Rentoul as a witness in controversy touching Catholic doctrine and practice has been shattered by his modus operand! in reading into the decree Ne Temere words not to be fodnd there (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman’s Journal). Subsequently he was forced to admit that his ‘translation’ was a ‘paraphrase ’ by Dr. Crozier, a notorious fanatical Orangeman. In closing the correspondence, the Very , Rev. Dean .Phelan, V.G., who has come; out of the fight easily first, said: ‘I now part company with Dr. Rentoul on this question. I shall not ' inflict any punishment more severe than to present him unmasked to your' readers, clad in the tattered garments forged for him by Dr. Crozier. How can we blame the flock pastured by such shepherds for unreasonable anti-Catholic feeling when the doctrines, of our Church are translated for them by Dr. Crozier and “ paraphrased ”by Dr. Renton,!?’ The Argus closed' its correspondence with the fourth letter of the Dean’s, and that was only fair, as Dr. Rentoul opened the battle, which has proved so disastrous to him as an historian>and a theologian, lowering hia prestige to a very considerable extent.