Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 18 March 1915, Page 45

Intercolonial

Mr. Justice Hey don lias arranged to give £lO a month towards the Belgian fund while the war lasts-. Dr. Augustus Leo Kenny, of Melbourne, has been appointed a Privy Chamberlain of Sword and Cape by his Holiness Benedict XV. There are in every parish excellent Catholic girls worthy to be the wives of the best Catholic men in the community (says Archbishop Duhig), and as long as that is the case —I hope it will always be the case —1 do not see any reason whatsoever for Catholic men to seek their life partners outside their own faith. The Rev. Fathers P. Nulty (of St. Mary’s Cathedral staff), R. O’Regan (of St. Vincent’s, Redfern), and P.- J. Power (of the Sacred Heart, Darlinghurst), who have been on a twelve months’ European tour, returned to Sydney the other day. By the same boat came the Rev. Brothers O’Carroll, Bourke, McGuire, and O’Brien, of the Christian Brothers. His Lordship Bishop Shiel, of Rockhampton, is in receipt of a letter from Sir William Macgregor, exGovernor of Queensland, and perhaps the most popular of all Queensland Governors. The letter was in acknowledgment of one from Dr. Shiel, who expressed his regret at the departure from Queensland of Sir William Macgregor. In the course of his letter, Sir William says : ‘ I am fully conscious of the magnificent work your Church is doing in Queensland, both in religion and secular education, and I do hope and pray that your great services thus rendered to mankind and to the State of Queensland may be as abundantly blessed in the future as it has been in the past.’ Dr. Charles MacCarthy, of Sydney, has sent to the Australian pavilion at the San Francisco Exhibition, a half-length life-size statue of Napoleon, in marble. The work was executed from intimate studies of all the authentic pictures of the great Emperor, and the measurements were taken from the mould of the deathmask. Dr. MacCarthy has also forwarded to the exhibition a life-size bust in bronze of the violinist, Mischa Elman, taken from life. Two exquisite bas-reliefs in bronze were also sent, one of a young Sydney girl and the other by the doctor’s daughter, Miss Maud MacCarthy, the violinist. An enthusiastic demonstration greeted the arrival of Bishop Carroll in Lismore on February 24. His Lordship was presented with an address from the clergy and laity of the diocese, and a cheque for £1152, which he handed over to the Cathedral fund. Speaking at a garden party, given in his honor, Bishop Carroll said that there are many things he would like to do. One of the most pleasurable would be to establish three bursaries for ecclesiastical students of the diocese, or half a dozen bursaries for students going on for secular pursuits to the University; but he was debarred from these things. He was almost sick of that unreiminerative task of paying interest on the Cathedral debt. If the debt : run on to the end of the present five years, completing ten years, he thought, in broad figures they would have paid £SOOO in interest. St. Laurence’s new schoolhall, Brisbane, is to be opened by his Grace Archbishop Duhig on April 11. Speaking at a meeting held recently in connection with the opening, his Grace said: ‘ I may toll you I am personally responsible for the overdraft of £4OOO at the Union Bank of Australia, and I have not a pound to my name. lam personally responsible. Mark you that! I became responsible in order that we might complete the building, otherwise the work could not have gone on. The first contract was £5040, the second £2700, with £IOOO for the furnishing of the school and other items of expenditurealtogether involving an expenditure of £9OOO. In order to be out of debt we want to gather in £4ooothe first £IOOO for furnishing the school and a home for the Brothers. That is what this meeting is called for.’