Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 3 August 1911, Page 1491

Intercolonial

Among those received in audience at the end of June by his Holiness the Pope was' the Yen. Archdeacon Smyth, of Perth, who for several years edited the West Australian Record.

At a meeting of Brunswick parishioners held shortly after the death of the Rev. E. J. Luby, it was decided that a memorial to the memory of a loved and revered pastor should be erected, and it was decided that it take the form of an altar iif St. Ambrose’s Church. -

On the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a most impressive ceremony took place at St. Joseph’s Convent, Mount street, Sydney, when ten Sisters pronounced their vows, and eight postulants received the habit. His Grace Archbishop Kelly officiated. Among the postulants was Sister M. Gerarda (Miss Elizabeth O’Connor, New Zealand). Bishop Dunne, of Wilcannia, who recently completed a visitation of his vast diocese, extending over three months, is now back in Broken Hill, his episcopal centre (says the Catholic Press'). Such a visitation with his Lordship is no light matter. To reach the north-eastern portion of his diocese on the Upper Darling he has to make a train journey of 1900 miles before he reaches Bourke, travelling via Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. Then he has to return to Sydney again to visit the Riverina portion of the diocese. Widespread regret was felt when the death was announced of Mother Meagher, one of the most loved members of the Sacred Heart Convent, Bourke street, Malvern, Victoria. Deceased was the only daughter of the Hon. John Meagher, K.C.S.G., of Bathurst, and was 36 years of age, thirteen of which had been spent in the Sacred Heart Order. Deceased had a long, and distressing illness, which she bore in a spirit of perfect patience and resignation to the edification of the whole community. Speaking at the opening of a new school recently, jus Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne said that he had not lost sight of the question of erecting a college within the University, on whose grounds there is an allotment reserved for this purpose. The Archbishop said that £20,000 could easily be found for the building, but the main question was the maintenance of the college, for which an adequate endowment fund would, have to be provided. x The Very Rev. Thomas O’Farrell, C.SS.R., who lelt the other day for his native land, gave the first mission in St. Mary’s, St. Kilda, when Dr. Corbett (now Bishop of Sale) was pastor. That was in 1884, two years after the foundation at Singleton, N.S.W. In 1888, the late Bishop ,of Ballarat invited FatherU Farrell to found a home of the Order there. The Fathers began their work in an unpretentious building but soon a splendid monastery was built on the shores or Lake Wendouree.

■ Allan McLean, one of the best-known men in Victoria, and at one time Premier of that State, died on July 13 at his home in Melbourne. He had been q many months f Though born in the Highlands of Scotland, Mr. McLean, who at the time of his death was in his 72nd year, arrived in Australia when three years of age, so that he might properly have been regarded as an Australian product. His father was a settler and station-owner in Gippsland in the days when - the blacks were not past the troublesome era: ins mother was the first white woman in that part of the country. The education of young McLean and his Sisters was entrusted to an old Highland tutor named McDonald, a man with a most, wonderful memory and the power of teaching others to remember also. Like Ins forebears, Mr. McLean was a Catholic. f^ h Wa L not . kwai t to identify himself with his faith The remains of Mr. McLean were taken to bale for interment in the General Cemetery, where his oSLZTJ . His Lordship Bishop Corbe “