Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 12 February 1914, Page 53

Intercolonial

The silver jubilee of St. Patrick’s Ecclesiastical ' College, Manly, will take place somewhere about Corpus Christi. • , . " The Right Rev. Mgr. Meagher, V.G., of Singleton, has been appointed Administrator of the diocese of Maitland during the absence in Europe of his Lordship Bishop Dwyer. The purchase has been made by the Patrician Brothers, of Holy Cross College, Ryde, of ‘ Lancello,’ the commodious residence erected a few years back by Mr. Edwin Lane at Orange. The residence lies, in about' 56 acres of land, overlooking the town, and was secured at a cost of .£4250. It is intended to use the building as a high school for advanced pupils ancT a training college for teachers. The departure of the Rev. Father Fouhy, the veteran parish priest of Toowoomba, on an extended health trip to Europe, was marked 'by a display of affection and esteem on the part of his parishioners and many uon-Catholic residents of the Queen City of the Darling Downs. Father Fouhy was made the recipient of a purse of sovereigns. As fellow-passengers to Europe he will have Dr. Carroll, Bishop of Lismor©,, and Rev. Father O’Connell, of Carlton (Vic.). The success of our Catholic colleges and schools at the University Public Examinations is very gratifying (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman’sJournal). _ It is worthy of note that the study of mathematics, which, the carping critic in past times, would have us believe was neglected at convent schools,, is to the front in the results, there being many distinctions in arithmetic, geometry algebra, and trigonometry, credited to the candidates from convent colleges and schools. .'Speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Federation at Goulburn, the Very Rev. Father M- J. O’Reilly,. C.M., dealt with the subsidised hospitals. He said that in New South Wales, out of a sum of £140,000 the Catholic hospitals got £250 : but in Victoria, about, which New South Wales had little good to say, the Government in on© year gave £20,000 as a building grant. lie quoted a Protestant doctor, who declared that the paid nurses of the State could not compare with the Sisters, who gave their services for the love of God and the love of the poor. The Catholic orphanages got not one penny of help. The fact was, that New South. Wales was the most bigoted State in Australia. By the death of Miss Anastasia Ryan, of Galong, New South Wales has lost one of its noblest and most charitable women (says the Catholic Press). She was an excellent Catholic, and her faith was practical, for she gave munificently to advance the cause of religion and education. But the Ryan family to which she belonged have been long noted for their great charity and devotion to their faith. Ten years ago, it will be remembered, they erected a beautiful church at Galong.. Some years subsequently Miss Ryan donated, on behalf of her brother, the late Mr. Lawrence Ryan, and of: herself, the convent and school at Galong ; ,and quite: recently she gave a large sum of money to provide a*, boarding-school for the little town. In fact, she was: always doing some good act, and her generosity will! be missed by the many who benefited directly by her munificence, as well as by the general community. The late Miss Ryan was a native of the parish of Clonoulty, County Tipperary, Ireland, and was 81 years of age. ( She came to Australia when she was 17. Her father was the late Mr. Michael Ryan. She had four brothers, all of whom predeceased her. ■ By her will Miss Ryan, left £3OO to the priests at Mount Melleray, Ireland, for Masses, and after several bequests to relatives, the residue of the estate, amounting to several thousands of pounds, has been left in equal shares to the Little Sisters of the Poor, Randwick, and St. Patrick’s (Church Hill) Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.