Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 26 September 1912, Page 59

Intercolonial

The new Church of St. Canute at Streaky Bay, West Coast, was blessed and opened recently by his Lordship the Bishop of Port Augusta, assisted by Rev. Fathers Jeorgensen and Kelly. A handsome new building in place of the old Monte Oliveto Convent, Woollhra, was opened by the Archbishop of Sydney on Sunday, September 8. There was a large gathering, and the subscriptions at the ceremony amounted to close on £SOO. The will of the Right Rev. Dr. James Francis Corbett, Bishop of Sale, who died on May 28, has been lodged for probate. The testator left personal property valued at £1337, and after providing £SO for Masses and £IOO to the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Abbotsford, bequeathed everything for the use of his successor. By the death of Mr. John Kenny, father of Dr. A. L. Kenny, C.S., K.S.G., Rev. J. Kenny (of South Yarra), and Mr, J J. Kenny, Victoria has lost one of its most highly respected and pioneer settlers. The late Mr, Kenny was born at Fort Brown, County Galway, Ireland, on April 2. 1836, and was therefore in his 77th year at the time of his death. A - community of seven members of the Little Sisters of the Poor from the mother house at Randwick, established themselves recently at Parkside, Adelaide. Later on the Sisters hope to be in a position to build at Glen Osmond, where an excellent sue of three acres has been placed at their disposal by the Archbishop. , ' Sunday, September 8 (says the Catholic Press ) was the 28th anniversary of the landing of the late Cardinal in Sydney as Archbishop, so that the Right Rev. Mgr. O’Haran, who accompanied him here, has been a score and eight years in residence at St. Mary’s Cathedral. He has been Administrator of the mother parish practically all these years, and was intimately identified with his Eminence during the period of the greatest progress of the Church in our midst. The foundation stone of the additions to the Church of SS. Peter and Paul, South Melbourne, was laid on Sunday afternoon, September 8, by his Grace the Archbishop. The total cost of the improvements will be about £9OOO. His Grace reminded his hearers that the beginnings of the Catholic Church in the district were of a very, humble character. Now they had four primary schools, two high schools, two orphanages, the training college conducted by the Nuns of Loreto, and the Albert Hall. Several of these buildings have been erected within the past nine years. The subscription list showed a total of over £4ooof At the inaugural meeting in Melbourne of the Archdiocesan Council of the Catholic Federation, over 100 delegates from metropolitan and country parish councils, Catholic societies and associations of past pupils of Catholic colleges, were present. Mr. T. C. Brennan, who was elected the first president of the council, said the present membership of the federation was close on 30,000. Mr. T. J. O’Brien was elected hon. secretary, and Messrs. W. L. Bowditch and J. E. Batchelor vice-presidents, Mr. R. A. Warming hon. treasurer, and Messrs. W. L. Murrells, L. Egan, and J. Cantwell assistant secretaries. His Lordship Dr. Higgins, Bishop of Ballarat, has received a cable message from Ireland, stating that Rev. Father Shiel, Administrator of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Ballarat, who is an inmate of Mater Misericordige Hospital, Dublin, suffering from typhoid fever, is progressing favorably. The crisis of the fever has not yet been reached, but as Father Shiel is of robust constitution it is expected that he will make a good recovery. It appears that he contracted the disease while -travelling from China to America. He visited the first-named country for the purpose of seeing his sister, who is a nun in one of the convents at Shanghai.