Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 13 November 1913, Page 51

Intercolonial

His Lordship Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Bathurst, blessed and opened the new primary school at Mudgee on Sunday, October 26. The school will accommodate about 220 children, and cost about £2OOO. Mother Mary Patrick and Sister Margaret Mary, of the Presentation Convent, Carnarvon, Western Australia, returned recently from a six months’ visit to Ireland.. Four young postulants returned with them.

The late Mr. John Eastman, of Broken Hill, in his will bequeathed the sum of £SOO each to the district hospital, Benevolent Society, and the Sisters of Mercy of the Broken Hill Convent, and £2OO each to the Broken Hill and District Nurses' Association and to the Catholic Orphanage in Broken Hill.

Rev. Fathers Michael McKenna, of Brisbane, and Edward Barry, of Roma (Queensland), former students of the Christian Brothers’ College at Nudgee, are returning to Queensland, after completing their studies for the priesthood at All Hallows, where they were ordained last June by Archbishop Clune.

On Sunday evening, October 26, the death took place at All Hallows Convent, Brisbane, of one of the oldest members of the community in the person of Sister Mary Columbanus. The deceased was born in Kilrush, County Clare, and had been for forty-nine years a nun. She was one of the first postulants received at All Hallows, from which she was never transferred.

At Flemington, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of a new primary school to cost £3500, his Grace Archbishop Mannix dealt at length with the Catholic educational rights and warned the Government that as they had refused a capitation grant and even the modest request for a Royal Commission on the State school system, the Catholic Federation would take other measures.

■ A cablegram from Archbishop Clune to Monsignor Veiling on October 20 announced that his Grace was leaving for Rome, and would afterwards continue his homeward journey by the Mooltan, which will arrive at Fremantle on December 16,. A meeting of the laity will be held at an early date to arrange a suitable reception. _ The clergy of the archdiocese will present an illuminated address.

Sister M. Elizabeth Riordan died at the Convent of Mercy, Bathurst, on October 25, at the age of 58 years. She was a native of Cork, Ireland, and was one of the little band of Sisters who accompanied the late Bishop Quinn to Bathurst 39 years ago. She was Superioress of both the Forbes and Wellington convents for some time, and later was bursar to the Dubbo community for a number of years. For the past six years she had been attached to the Bathurst community.

The handsome new Church of St. Columbkille, erected beside the older building which for the past eleven years has done duty as both church and school at Corrimal, a portion of the extensive parish of Bulli, was blessed and opened on Sunday, October 26, by his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney. It was one of a series of opening ceremonies performed by his Grace during the last couple of months. The new church is a very handsome structure, and is a lasting tribute to the energy of Father Dunne and the generosity of his parishioners. The total expenditure was about £2500, towards which over £IOOO had been in hand prior to the opening ceremony.