Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 6 March 1913, Page 53

Intercolonial

The Most Rev. Dr. Mannix, Coadjutor-Archbishop of Melbourne, is expected to arrive in Melbourne on Easter Monday. The Bishop-elect of Sale (Right Rev. Dr. Phelan, P.A.), has declined to accept any public testimonial on the occasion of his consecration. When Rev. Father Foley returned to Taree, he was met and welcomed on the station platform by the Rev. Father Kelly and a number of members of the congregation, who gave him a most cordial reception. The death is announced of the Rev. C. O'Donnell, of Glenelg (South Australia), one of the senior clergy as regards length of time in the archdiocese, having arrived there in February, 1883. Father O'Donnell was born in Kilteely, Limerick, in the year 1854. The Rev. L. O'Neill, who left Melbourne on February 19 for Ireland, and who ministered in the city of Ballarat and district for the past five years, was farewelled by the Catholic clergy and laity of Ballarat at a complimentary musical evening, and presented with a purse of sovereigns. The silver jubilee of the consecration of his Grace Archbishop O'Reily, of Adelaide, as Bishop, is to be celebrated in a befitting way by the Catholics of that archdiocese on May 1. A public meeting was held in St. Francis Xavier's Hall the other day, when Monsignor Byrne presided over a large and representative gathering. It was decided to present an address and testimonial to his Grace, and Catholics in the metropolitan area and in the country were invited to co-operate in tho movement. The following changes have been made by Brother Alphonsus, Provincial of the Marist Brothers in Australia:Brother Guibertus, formerly principal at Port Adelaide School, has been transferred to Largs Bay College, to replace Brother Joseph, who is now at St. Joseph's, Hunter's Hill; Brother Barnabas, president of the Carmelite Boys' Club, has been appointed principal at Port Melbourne, with Brothers Regus and Owen as assistants. Brother Gabriel, of Norwood, ha 3 been re-appointed for a further term. The foundation stone of a new boys' school in Goulburn was laid on February 9, by his Lordship Bishop Gallagher. Before proceeding with the ceremony the Bishop delivered a short address. The function, he said, he regarded as probably the most important which had taken place since the day, 42 years since, in 1871, when as a young priest he had assisted in the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of SS. Peter and Paul's Cathedral. That building had cost £40,000, but the people's faith and generosity had enabled them to pay every penny of it. And this occasion was even more important, as it was an axiom, recognised alike by Catholics and non-Catholics, that the school which was not in the shadow of the church could not prosper. But Catholics were loyal, and they said always ' the school before the church,' because it was in the school their children were taught, and the school had often to be used as a church until the sacred edifice could be built. St. Mary's Church, Emmaville, was filled to overflowing on Sunday week, the occasion being the celebration of the silver jubilee of his. ordination to the priesthood of the Rev. Father John Smiers, of Auckland, New Zealand (says the Catholic Press of February 20). High Mass was celebrated by the jubilarian. Rev. Father C. Smiers (who has charge of the Emmaville parish, and who is the youngest brother of the jubilarian), presided at the organ, and special music was rendered by the choir. The occasional sermon was preached by the pastor of Emmaville, who said that the jubilarian was ordained in Salford (England) by the late Cardinal Vaughan (then Bishop of Salford), on February 2, 1888. Shortly afterwards he left for the Maori missions in New Zealand, and had labored there for the past 25 years with fruitful results. After Mass an adjournment was made to the school, where an address from the pupils of the convent school was presented to Father Smiers, who briefly and feelingly replied.