Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 25 January 1912, Page 51

Intercolonial

The Christian Brothers’ College, which has been just erected at Warwick, will be opened ,on Sunday' next. ' ; " __ ‘ •> - The Rev. Father P. J. Donovan, of Gundagai, has been an inmate of Lewisham Private Hospital for several weeks. His condition is somewhat serious. The unveiling of the monument erected to perpetuate the memory of the late Dr. Kevin Izod O’Doherty and his gifted wife will take place in Toowong cemetery, Queensland, on Sunday, January 28. - ” Two new Dominican —Revs. M. O’Byrne and I. Doyle, O.P.—arrived recently in Adelaide from Home. Father O’Byrne is a Wicklow man, but served for some years in the West Indies Father Doyle is a Wexford man, and spent five years in Lisbon. His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney, accompanied by the Rev. P. Murphy, was among the number of prominent citizens entertained at lunch on board the R.M.S. ' Orama by Mr. David Anderson, .general manager of the Orient company in Australia, to celebrate the visit of the latest and largest Orient liner to Sydney. . ;'y : " _ * v : The Very Rev. Father Thomas Hayden, vice-pre-sident of St. Patrick’s College, Manly, and his brother, the Rev. Father W. Hayden, of Fern Hill, and the Rev. Father P. ,J. Walsh, P.P., Wollongong, were to leave Sydney for Ireland on Wednesday, the 24th. inst., by the German ’ steamer Seydlitz, on a twelve months’ holiday. On. the way they intend - visiting Egypt and the Holy Land, Rome, and other places of interest in: Europe.. -* ’ ; n Rev. Father Shiel, Administrator of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Ballarat, who has been connected with the Australian mission for fourteen years, intends leaving shortly on a twelve months’ tour of Europe and the East. During the tour, Father Shiel will spend some time in the County of Meath, Ireland, where his : mother resides, and will also visit. China, •in which country his sister is a nun in the Franciscan Order. We have 'received - the Almanac of the diocese of Maitland for the current year, and desire to congratulate the compilers on the' excellence of that very useful publication. From it we take the following statistics regarding the diocese. Total Catholic population, 30,040; Catholic schools, 56 pupils in Catholic schools, 4401. ■■■;■■ _ * . The Rev. Father M. H. Mclnerny, 0.P., who has been working in Adelaide for seven years past,' left recently for Ireland, whither he has been recalled to undertake important literary work for the Dominican Order, His Catholic Truth Society pamphlets are well known. Before Father Mclnerny’s departure the people of the Balaklava and Brompton; parishes, presented him with an address, a watch, and a purse of sovereigns. • - . ... . Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the St. Patrick’s Day celebration committee at the 7 Chapter Hall; Sydney, his- Grace the “Archbishop made- a special appeal to all friends of Ireland, and particularly nonCatholics, to join hands with their fellow-men in the joyous celebration of the National festival >ln the course of his remarks his ; Grace said : In Ireland all were not Catholics, but in a certain way they were more honored and sometimes were more Catholic than the Catholics themselves, only they did not go to confession or abstain from meat on Friday. As far as their own legislators were concerned, he; had been told that they secured greater. warmth • and cordiality of support because of their upright, honest convictions. He would not ask non-Catholics to go ,to Mass, but would ask them to glorify St. Patrick in a national sense, as he was the -ideal of the Irish people, and represented the twin love of Church and Country. 'lt would never happen that anyone not a Catholic would find • offence to his religion by joining : with them in the> celebration :of St. Patrick s Day.- ,• ■ ; ..... : : ■>