Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 2 May 1912, Page 59

Intercolonial

The Very Rev. J. Shiel, Adm., Ballarat, has gone on an extended trip to Europe. He was given an enthusiastic send-off.

The Bendigo celebration of St. Patrick's Day comes next to Melbourne, and a profit of £IOOO is anticipated for the primary schools. V ' • Out of the £101,246 allocated by -the Victorian Government this year to charity St. Vincent's Hospital will receive £3200, an increase of £IOO over the grant of 1911. 5

At the final meeting of the St. Patrick's Day committee in Ballarat it was announced that the receipts were £1127 and the expenses £327, leaving a credit balance of £800,.$ which establishes a record . for Ballarat.

Brother E. F. Keniry, who for the past six years has been President of St. Patrick’s College, Goulburn, has left for Ballarat, where he is to take charge of the Christian Brothers’ College. His successor at.Goulburn is Brother Quinn, who taught at the college 12 years • Mr. A. C. Burke, manager of the Catholic Press, Sydney, prior to his departure on a six months’ holiday trip to Europe, was the recipient of a presentation, consisting of a purse of 100 sovereigns and a travelling hag, from the directors of the company and some personal friends. . ■ ' r His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney blessed and opened a new school-church at Stanmore on Sunday April 14. The total cost was about £3BOO. A sum of close on £450 had been received at the laying of the foundation stone, and the collection at the opening ceremony amounted to £l7O. • 6 S e . fun ? s of . the Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, Victorian District, amount to £7B 350 Os Id. The various funds in the district and branches B Jfi°nL a c 1 o? ea m, for the year ended January, 1912, of iboOoo bs 9d. The membership, which totalled 10 617 showed an increase of 516 members for the twelve months. T

a JTbe following is a summary of the statistics of the Archdiocese of Sydney:— Districts, 76; churches, 192: secular priests, 123; religious priests, 76; religious Brothers, 123; nuns, 1438; ecclesiastical seminaries,^; boarding schools (girls’), 26; superior day schools, 52; primary schools, 253; charitable institutions, 32; chilabout* 1 1 75 sch °° ls ’ 771; Catholic population,

_ The Very Rev. Dean Walsh, late parish priest of r W OT died in Sydney on Sunday, April 14, after c!Z g n 4 n T- H e ™ s -tended by, his Lordship Dr. Sh Bishop of Lismore, and also by the Very Rev. ather Moynagh V.F. Deceased was born in County Wexford Ireland, and labored, for twenty-five years in New South Wales, and displayed great zeal in Bathurst and northern river districts.

„ In the 'death of the Hon. J. R. Dacev " Stiff* Treasurer, New South Wales (says the Freeman’s CrTcT life id St T °fi itS Gading citizens - and democracy a life-long friend. A popular member of! the Legislature, Mr. Dacey probably did not have an enemy in the Chamber. He was an ardent student of constitutional laws, i and when knotty problems were faced by the party his advice was well worthy of the support it received. In private life Mr. was uttbrtv Wh - Ie in the aUSe of Catholicity and mask of Vp Mr Sy? Plnl ° '* eVer hidden beW ” d a