Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 5 October 1911, Page 1995

Intercolonial

At a meeting of the Bishops held at St. Mary’s Presbytery after the Month’s Mind for the late Cardinal Moran (says the Catholic Press), the Archbishop of Melbourne, the Bishop of Wilcannia, and the Arch"bishop of Sydney were deputed to write to the other Bishops of Australia with a view of completing St.' Mary’s Cathedral as a memorial to his Eminence. - Preparations (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman’s Journal) are going on apace to give a splendid welcome to the Irish envoys on Tuesday, October 10. They will be welcomed by the Irish national friendly societies and clubs, and escorted to the Cathedral Hall, where the formal reception will take place, A visit to Heidelberg in drags will follow, and the great Home Rule rally will be held in the evening in the Town Hall. Meetings will subsequently be held in the provincial centres. The ladies are cooperating in the proposed welcome to Messrs. Redmond, Hazleton, and Donovan. His Lordship the Bishop of Wilcannia (Dr. Dunne) has had a strenuous episcopal time this year (remarks the Freeman’s Journal). He had just completed a three months’ visitation on the . eastern side of his diocese when the sad news of the Cardinal’s death was telegraphed over the Commonwealth.- To understand what this means, it has only to be stated that his Lordship, in order to get from west to east of his diocese, must, owing to absence of direct railway communication between Broken Hill and the western railway limits of New South Wales, take train at Broken Hill for Adelaide, and hither to Sydney—a matter of some 1500 miles. During his recent episcopal visitation on this side his travels involved a distance of between 3000 and 4000 miles. *■ .. Probate has been granted of the will of the late Cardinal Moran, who died on August 16 last (says the Freeman’s Journal). Testator’s last will and testament is dated May 1, 1885, but there is a codicil dated April 3,1909. Testator bequeathed all his real and personal estate to his trustees and executors upon trust f for the person who will be appointed, according to the rules of the Roman Catholic Church, to hold the office of Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney after my decease.’ The total assets were sworn at £IBO4 19s 2d, and the total debt at £2109 4s. Of this debt the sum of £2IOO was a loan fund in the hands of the Cardinal. During the past four years the Cardinal expended £IB,OOO on St. Columba’s College, Springwood, out of his private funds, and then made it a gift to the archdiocese, The expenditure during the last eighteen months considerably exceeded the Cardinal’s anticipations. His Eminence was never known to make an investment for himself, and always tried to pay off each debt as it fell due. Three special trains from Sydney were overcrowded on Sunday afternoon, September 17 (says the Catholic Press), when 500 people went up to Westmead for the annual re-union at the St. Vincent de Paul Boys’ Industrial Home, and for the laying of the foundation stone of the new wing that is being added for the accommodation of deaf and dumb lads. This new department marks a most important development in the expansion of the institution’s • work, and is not intended to interfere in any way with what is being done for afflicted children by the Dominican Nuns at Waratah. On the contrary, it has been almost entirely‘owing to the urgent representations of these nuns that the members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul have taken on this additional burden. The result of long experience has convinced the Sisters that when deaf and dumb boys reach a certain age it is necessary that they should be placed under the direction of men. The new building, which is being erected, at the southern side of the Home, will provide room for about 50 boys, and no deaf and dumb lads will be admitted until they have passed the age of eleven years. The Marist Brothers, who conduct the Home for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, will commence the new branch of their labors with sixteen or twenty subjects.