Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 7 December 1911, Page 2499

Intercolonial

The Archbishop of Adelaide celebrated his Csth birthday on Sunday, November 19. Mr. Joseph Winter, proprietor of the Melbourne Advocate has beeen elected vice-president for Australia of the American-Irish Historical Society. The Irish envoys had a splendid reception in Adelaide. They were given a civic reception by the Mayor, entertained at luncheon at Parliament House by the Attorney-General, and addressed a magnificent meeting in the Exhibition Building in the evening. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has made the following changes in the location of priests: Rev. M. D. Finan, from Brunswick to Kilmore. Rev. W. O’Dwyer, from Kilmore to the charge of St. Ambrose’s, Brunswick. Rev. Edward Murtagh, to Surrey Hills (during illness of Rev. D. Gleeson). Rev. Joseph Patrick O’Doherty to West Melbourne. Rev. Patrick Joseph Nicholson to Collingwood. Rev. W. Berntsen from Kyneton to Oakleigh. Rev. Timothy O’Callaghan to Kyneton. Rev. James Joseph Lee, Brunswick. Rev. Thomas Gavan Duffy, youngest son of the late Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G., who was raised to the priesthood at the College of the Missions Etrangeres, Rue du Bac, Paris, on September 23, will shortly leave Marseilles for his future field of work at Pondicherry, India, where there is an old-established mission of the French Missionary Fathers. Father Duffy has been making a farewell tour in England and Ireland. The following clerical changes in the archdiocese of Sydney have been announced:—Rev. Father R. McElligott has been appointed professor at St. Patrick’s College, Manly. Rev. Father P. O’Donnell goes as assistant to Mount Carmel, Rev. Father James Smith has been appointed an additional assistant at Forest Lodge. Rev. Father J. Meariy, Diocesan Inspector of Schools, has taken up residence at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Rev. Father M. O’Donoghue has been appointed assistant at Balmain. Fathers O’Donnell, Smith, and O’Donoghue only arrived in Sydney recently from Ireland.