Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 17 December 1914, Page 19

Intercolonial

..The Rev, M. J„ Rohan, P.P. of Dobkie, .Victoria, who occupied the position of president of St. Patrick's sports in Bendigo for many years, has established what is , probably a record for individual effort in the cause of Catholic education. He collected £562 6s 7d for the 1914 demonstration.

* Ad multos annos ’ to our illustrious Archbishop, who enters on his 69th year on Thursday next, 19th inst., says the Southern Gross (Adelaide),, of November 13. His Grace was born at Kilkenny on November 19, 1846. He was consecrated Bishop of Port Augusta on May 1, 1888, and was translated to the See of Adelaide on January 5, 1895, The rejoicings on his Grace’s birthday will be enhanced by his happy recovery from his recent serious illness.

For the third year in succession, Alderman D. V. Hennessy was installed as the Lord Mayor of Melbourne last month. The eight councillors .who retired by effluxion of time, and who were re-elected unopposed, were congratulated, and Aldermen Jeffries and Burton were re-elected as aldermen for the Gipps and Latrobe wards respectively. In proposing the -healths of the newly-returned councillors, the Lord Mayor said that in twenty years only two retiring members of the council had been rejected by the ratepayers.

Speaking the other day, the Right Rev. Dr. Norton, Bishop of Port .Augusta (S.A.), mentioned that his, diocese embraced only about 12,000 Catholics,, yet, since 1888 it had raised £87,000. During. the last eight and a half years in which he had been privileged to fill the high office of Bishop, £43,000 had been raised, and in the last two years £15,991. Those amounts were over and above the upkeep of schools and the clergy. The diocesan debt was £7OOO, principally upon the Petersburg property. The only other amount was Port Augusta, £IOO.

The Governor-General paid a high tribute to the work of nursing nuns at the annual meeting of St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. He said the first nurse he ever had was a Bister of Charity, and the last was a co-operative —a member of a vary competent association. He could not help thinking that a combination of the qualities that arose from religious de; votion on the one hand, and from a full knowledge of science and skill on the other, was a happy and reliable combination. That was what they had in St. Vincent’s, and it was that which made the hospital so great a success. It was not in the hospitals alone that they saw the result of that influence, for it spread out over the entire land.

The Hon. John Gavan Duffy, K.S.G., has been appointed a trustee of the Public Library, Art Galleries, and National Museum by the State Executive Council, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Professor E. J. Nanson (says the Melbourne Advocate). For many years Mr. Duffy was the member for Dalhousie in the Legislative Assembly, and on the roll of Executive Councillors for the State his name is second, coming after that of Sir John Madden, the Chief : Justice. He is a son of the late Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, who was Premier of Victoria (1871-2), and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (1877-80). Mr. Duffy was Minister for Lands in the Service Administration (1880), Post-master-General in the Munro Ministry (1890-2), At-torney-General, and subsequently Honorary Minister in the Shiels Government (1892-3), and PostmasterGeneral in the first Turner Cabinet (1894-9). He is a trustee for the Exhibition Building.