Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 30 July 1914, Page 41

Intercolonial

he Julius Knight Company generously gave a dramatic performance in His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth, recently (says the Freeman’s Journal') in aid of the proposed Foundling Home. The net profit of the proceedings amounted to £154 5s 9d. The new home, which is to be under the management of the Sisters of Mercy, is to cost £4OOO. His Lordship Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher, Bishop of Goulburn, laid the foundation stone of the De La Salle Training College at Cootamundra on June 25 (says the Southern Cross). His Lordship very generously contributed £3OO towards the building, as he has great admiration for the Brothers and for their founder, St. John Baptist de la Salle. By far the greatest part of the expense is being borne by the progressive parish priest of Cootamundra, the Very Rev. Terence O’Shaughnessy. He is contributing £IOOO in cash, he has given the site—which is worth another thousand and he is donating the bricks.

On Sunday, July 5 (says the Freeman’s Journal his Grace the Coadjutor-Archbishop of Melbourne delivered a strong speech on the Catholic educational question at the blessing and opening of the fine new girls’ Catholic school, which has been erected at a cost of over £6OOO, and with the land is worth £IO,OOO. His Grace said that the question that Catholic electors had to consider in the coming State elections was not whether a candidate was a member of the Liberal party or of the Labor party, but whether he was prepared to give a fair share of the public educational expenditure for Catholic schools. If he were not prepared to answer this question in the affirmative, then they should not vote for him. The Archbishop, in advocating this attitude, dwelt on the financial disabilities that the Catholic people were under in having to support their own schools, and having, in addition to this, to contribute their full share towards the support of the State school system.

In connection with the will of the late Mr. John Maurice Toohey, of Wahroonga, son of the late Mr. J. T. Toohey, M.L.C. (says the Catholic J’ress), the testator, who died at St. Remo, Italy, in addition to specific bequests of relatives and others, bequeathed £SOO to the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary at Lewisham, and £IOO each to the Mother' Rectress of St. Vincent’s Hospital, the Mother Superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Rand wick, the Catholic church at Waitara, the Catholic church at Pymble, and the Waitara Foundling Hospital, which is conducted by the Sisters of Mercy. He directed that after the death of Katherine Egan, of Whhroouga, who was one of the principal beneficiaries under his will, the estate was to be realised, and after the payment of certain legacies to relatives, the residue of the proceeds of realisation was to be divided into 40 equal parts, 20 of which were bequeathed to the Mother Superior of the Sisters of the ‘Little Company of Mary at Lewisham ; four to the Waitara Foundling Hospital; two to St. Ignatius College, Riverview ; one to the Rev. Father Pigott, S.J., of St. Ignatius’ College, to be used by him, for scientific purposes ; two to the president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, to be used for the purposes of the society in the metropolitan area; two to the Wcstmead Boys’ Home; two to the Hospice for the Dying in connection with St. Vincent’s Hospital ; one to the Little Sisters of the Poor at Randwick : one to the Sisters of St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Kincumber ; one to the Sisters at St. Martha’s, Leichhardt; two to the Marist Fathers at St. Patrick’s Church, Church Hill : and two to the Franciscan Fathers, at St. Joseph’s Church at Woolahra, for the benefit of St. Joseph’s.