Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 26 November 1914, Page 43

Intercolonial

Mr. Benjamin Hoare, the well-known journalist in Melbourne, and a sterling defender of Catholic rights, has (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Freeman ) had the case Hoare v. Norton settled in his favor, the defendant paying £I2OO.

Father Aubrey Goodman, M.S.H., is compiling a History of King Island, Tasmania. Father Goodman built the first Catholic church on the island. His health is somewhat impaired from zealous missionary duty, and work, on the book has been suspended for the present. •

Lady Barron sent a bunch of flowers and the following message of sympathy to the Benedictines on the sad occasion of the demise of their beloved Lord Abbot Torres: ‘ Let these few flowers, gathered by my own hands, rest on his body this night in the name of Queen Mary and myself. Clara E. Barron.’

Sister Mary Joseph, who visited Adelaide after several years’ absence, has been a member of the Order of St. Joseph for no less than 46 (says the Southern .Cross). She is an aunt of the Rev. Father Denny and Mr. W. J. Denny, M.P. Sister Mary Joseph is now stationed at Annandale Convent, New South Wales.

The Superior-General of the Sisters of Charity (Rev. Mother Mary Francis McGuigan} was when the last mail left in Melbourne visiting the houses of her Order, and as this is the Rev. Mother’s jubilee year, the Sisters of. Charity resident in Melbourne are taking advantage of her visit to do her honor and show their devotedness and loyalty. . The death is announced of Rev. Mother M. Paul

Fay, of the Presentation Convent, Star of the Sea,

Elsternwick, Victoria, the , first Mother-General of .the Presentation Order in Victoria. Deceased came to Australia from the Presentation Convent, Kildare, Ireland, with the late Rev. Mother M. John Byrne, in 1874, and was one of four Sisters who founded the Presentation Convent,at Wagga in 1882. She accompanied Rev. Mother M. John Byrne to Victoria, and founded the Presentation Convent, Star of the Sea, Elsternwick. When the various houses of the Presentation Order in Victoria : were amalgamated in 1908, she was elected Mother-General. Deceased was in her 70th year, and the 46th of her religious life.

The death took place at Riverview College on November 5 (says the Sydney Catholic I‘ress) of the Rev. Eather Christopher Nulty, S.J., at the age of 77, from heart failure. Born in County Meath, Ireland, on February 15, 1838, Father Nulty, after his preliminary education, took up Philosophical studies at Maynooth, .and on the completion of his course entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 21. He was ordained in due course, and came to Australia in 1874. He was attached to the teaching staff of St. Patrick’s College, Melbourne, of which he became Rector in 1880, and in 1886 he was appointed Rector of St. Francis Xavier’s College, Kew, Victoria. In 1893 he was appointed Rector of St. Aloysius’ College, Surry Hills, which position he filled for ten years. In April, 1903, the college was transferred to North Sydney, but Father Nulty remained Rector until he was relieved in June of the same year. For the 11 years preceding his death he had filled various positions at St. Aloysius’ College, •North Sydney, Loyola House, Greenwich, and St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview. The deceased priest will bo long remembered by his brethren of the Society of Jesus, and by numerous friends, clerical and lay, as a very model of Christian charity. His unfailing kindliness of spirit caused him to be deeply loved by all who knew him.