Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 30 May 1912, Page 59

Intercolonial

On Sunday afternoon, May 19, his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne blessed the foundation stone of an addition to the Carmelite Church, Middle Park. Victoria has in* hand a huge scheme. It is intended to electrify her suburban railways at a cost of £2,000,000.. Tenders have been called in England. The Very Rev. Father P. Griffith, Provincial of the Redemptorists in Ireland, who had been visiting the houses of the Order in Australasia, has left for Europe. Catholic primary schools are' being erected in every centre of Catholic population in Melbourne. The Right Rev. Mgr. Phelan, V.G., recently blessed and opened a new brick school at the favorite wateringplace, Sandringham. His Grace Archbishop Duhig presided at a meeting of the senior priests of the diocese of Rockhampton on May 9, convened for the purpose of selecting three names to be submitted to the Holy See in connection with the appointment of a successor to the vacant See. The Irish envoys, Messrs. Redmond and Donovan, spoke to a crowded house here on the evening of May 10 (writes the Lismore correspondent of the Freeman's Journal). Both local papers give condensed reports of the speeches. They also state that £2OO were collected, but the Freeman's correspondent desires to say that £3OO would be nearer the mark, and that bv the time they have visited all centres on the Richmond and Tweed they will have collected pretty well £IOOO. A member of the municipal council presided, and his Lordship Bishop Carroll was among* those present. The new Parliament (writes the Brisbane correspondent of the Catholic Press) furnishes an instance of father and son sitting on the same side of the House. E. B. Corser, who, thanks to a useful lift from his absentee voting friends, managed to scrape in for Maryborough by four votes, has the satisfaction of seeing his son, Bernard Corser, returned for the Burnett. The latter is an ex-student of Nudgee College. The college has three of its old boys in the new Assembly in the persons of H. D. Macrossan, E. J Breslm, and B. Corser. The late Mr. John Griffith, of Ballarat, retired miner who died on April 3 last, left by will dated June 29, 1911, personal estate valued at £2500 to relatives, subject to the following bequests:—£2oo to the Bishop of Ballarat, for the erection of an altar in the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat; £2OO to the Bishop of Ballarat, for the advancement of primary education ; £IOO to the Sisters of Mercy, Ballarat East; £IOO to the Sisters of Nazareth, Nazareth House; and £SO to the sick and infirm priests' fund. /n, Th 6 n ™ le ° f S rief ™uded St. Patrick's parish (Church hill) during the week (says the Freeman's Journal of May 16), when with impressive ceremonies the remains of its late pastor, the Very Rev. A. Ginisty v'!'\rv- a ! d t 0 rest in the P ic turesque grounds of Villa Maria, the burial grounds of the Marist Fathers As mentioned in our last issue, the death of Father Ginisty took place at St. Vincent's Private Hospital on May o. The remains were conveyed to St. Patrick's Umrch the same evening, and upon being placed upon the sanctuary Chopin's 'Dead March' was played by the church organist. They lay in state all day on ihursday, and were viewed by thousands, and on Friday a Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated, at which a crowded congregation assisted. As the funeral left the church the streets in the vicinity were crowded with people and a large posse of police was requisitioned to control the traffic. A procession, preceded by the cross-bearer and acolytes, was formed, in which were the priests, members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society A.H.C. Guild, H.A.C.B. Society, Irish Nat onal Foresters, Children of Mary, the school children an members of St. Patrick's Old Boys' Union