Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 12 September 1912, Page 59

Intercolonial

As a result of the Sacred Heart Hospice Fete and Art Union, held in the Sydney Town Hall recently, the sum of £5003 7s 6d has been handed over for tire reduction of the mortgage on that institution. The art union realised £4639 Us lOd, the net proceeds of the fete amounting to £1126 13s 7d. and the donations for prizes to £l7O ss. .

The Right Rev. Dr. Bertreux, S.M., who was recently appointed Vicar-Apostolic of the Southern Solomon Islands, which he administered as PrefectApostolic for many years, has left for his native diocese of Nantes, in Brittany, where he will be consecrated. Dr. Bertreux, by the way, is one of twelve Bishops who were born in that diocese. Bro. M. J. Madigan (district president), speaking at the Hibernian breakfast in the Cardinal’s Hall, Sydney, on Sunday, August 25, said: ‘The success of our society during the past six months has been phenomenal. We have 199 branches in New South Wales, 12 of them being opened within ijie half-year. Our total membership is 12,540 for the State, an increase of 952 for the term under review. The funds have increased by £3450, bringing the accumulated funds to £72,247. The death is reported from Tasmania of Mrs. Robertson, the widow of the late Hon. J. T. Robertson, one-time Speaker of the House ,of Assembly. Mrs. Robertson was a prominent Catholic in Tasmania, and sister to the Very Rev. Father R. T. Weare, of Ravenswood, Queensland. The deceased gave to the Church one son—the Rev. Father Bernard, C.P., of Marrickville and two daughters—Sister Mary Dominic, 0.5. D., some fifteen years deceased, and Sister Mary Columba, of the Sisters of Mercy, Erskineville, Sydney. A cable message states that his Grace Archbishop Kelly, of Sydney, speaking at the opening of a bazaar, condemned the maternity bonus' proposal. The basis whereon the fundamental bond of society was to rest in future was not, it seemed, to be the fear and love of God nor the perfection of natural love. No ! They looked to political and material motives for all things. Australia, however, would have seen the acme of her improvement if such notions were ever adopted. It was only when people had lost all conscientious sentiment that they were to be spoken to as some projects of law speak to the people of Australia at present. At the 8 o’clock Mass, celebrated by the Right Rev. Dr. Carroll, Bishop of Lismore, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, on Sunday, August 25, about 600 members, male and female, of the metropolitan branches of the Hibernian Society, offered a general Communion for the repose of the soul of the late Cardinal, who, up till the time of his death, was chief chaplain of the society. All wore regalia, and filled almost all the seats in the nave, which were reserved for them. After Mass the members assembled for breakfast in the Cardinal’s Hall. The principal speaker at the function was his Lordship Bishop Clune, who delivered an eloquent address. • At the eighteenth annual meeting of St .Vincent’s Hospital, held recently in the Town Hall, Melbourne, the report of the past year’s work showed that 2571 in-patients had been treated in the words —an increase of 309 over the previous year—lß,376 cases were registered at the out-patient department, the total number of visits being 61,628. These figures do not include 3953 casualties dealt with by the resident staff. The receipts for the twelve months were £10,508, and the expenditure £12,369. Since the foundation of the institution in 1893 the number of patients treated have been: In-door, 18,634; out-door,. 161,798 casualties (since 1906), 13,723. - -