Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 23 November 1911, Page 2387

Intercolonial

Rev. Father Costelloe, who has been in charge of All Saints' Church, South Broken Hill during the past three years, has left there to take charge of his new parish at Wentworth. At farewell gatherings Father Costelloe was presented with purses of sovereigns aggregating £122. Mr. C. T. Madigan, a pupil of the Christian Brothers, and the last Rhodes Scholar from South Australia, arrived at Fremantle the other day by the R.M.S. Orvieto. Mr. Madigan is a student of geology, and being anxious to accompany the Mawson Antarctic expedition, he recently proceeded to England to interview the Rhodes trustees and obtain permission to postpone his studies until the return of the expedition. This permission has been granted. His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney opened and blessed the first House for Retreats for laymen in Australia on Sunday afternoon, November 5, at 'Loyola,' Greenwich road, Greenwich. His Grace, who was accompanied by the Rev. Father E. Brauer, was received by Rev. Father R. J. Murphy, S.J. The members of the A.H.C. Guild and H.A.C.B. Society furnished a guard of honor. The voting in the Victorian State elections, which took place last week, was heavy, the women exercising the franchise for the first time. A scheme of preferential voting was also introduced. Nine Ministerialists were returned unopposed, and in four constituencies the contest was between Liberals only. The new House will be composed as follows: Ministerialists, 44 ; Laborites, 19; Independents, 2. In the course of his policy speech, delivered at Warnambool, the Premier (Mr. Murray) said: —' I propose to give a number of scholarships in private primary schools— same number, relatively, as those connected with State schools. We feel that children at private primary schools should not be shut out of the advantage which the State schools have. The scholarships will be eligible either in secondary State schools, or in schools approved of by the Department.' The fourteenth anniversary of the consecration of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, was celebrated on Sunday, November 5, before a very large congregation. The music was of a special character. His Grace the Archbishop, in the course of a short sermon, referred with gratitude to the pioneers, to whose brave hearts and heroic sacrifices they owed the beginning and progress of the Cathedral up to the present day. On such an occasion they were forcibly reminded of the men and women by whose ceaseless and splendid generosity the site was secured, the foundations laid, and the Cathedral erected. He would mention specially the late Sir John O'Shannassy, who secured the site; the first Archbishop of Melbourne (Right Rev. Dr. Gould), who gave every penny of his private and public revenue for the building of the Cathedral; and above all the first Vicar-General of the archdiocese (Very Rev. Dr. Fitzpatrick), who was the master-builder of the edifice, and gave not only his last penny, but his life, to the work. Speaking at the blessing of the new Retreat, 'Loyola,' Greenwich, on Sunday, November 5, his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney referred to the matter of strikes, and inferentially the trouble which had agitated the public mind during the previous week. In the course of his address his Grace said:—'Because of the conditions which Australia had eiven her people in regard to temporal things, the hours of labor, not only for the pick and shovel man, but for the professional man and the tradesman, the last thing an Australian should do is to strike. Australia should advance. Nr: section of the community should be misled to act against the public interest by striking. A strike put on the brake. It was something like that which got into one's swallow at the table and hindered a person from taking his meat. I do not see that a strike is justifiable in this country, an ecclesiastic though I am. I would raise my voice against them, as I would against the surgeon who would amputate my arm.'