Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 15 April 1915, Page 55

Intercolonial

' His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Cerretti, has now taken up his residence at * Rockleigh,’ Edward street. North Sydney. y A few Sundays ago the Right Rev. Dr Higgins, Bishop of Ballarat, blessed and opened a new . church at Redan, which had been erected -at a 1 cost of r £3500. ? Rev. Brother Fogarty, who has been for many years in charge of the Christian Brothers’ , College, .'Gregory terrace (writes a Brisbane correspondent), has ' been transferred to Perth, Western Australia. Brother Egan who has been in Brisbane for some time, returns to Adelaide. Brother O’Donoghuc, of Perth, succeeds Brother Fogarty. , a At the Irish National Foresters’ annual Communion breakfast in Sydney on Sunday, March 28, High Chief Ranger Byrnes was presented by the Archbishop of Sydney, on behalf of the society, with a handsome gold medal as an appreciation of the excellent manner in which the recipient had carried out his duties during the year. His Grace heartily congratulated the High Chief Ranger, who suitably responded. , ° A private cable message reports that Captain Allah 0 Hallorau Wright, who was well known in Adelaide, was killed in action recently whilst fighting with his regiment in Northern France (says the Southern Cioss). This news will be received by his many friends in Adelaide with deep regret. . Captain Wright had been at the front since early in the Avar. He was adjutant of the Royal Irish Rifles, and was promoted to the rank of captain at the front in January. At his request, Sir Timothy Coghlan will retire from the position of Agent-General for New South ales at the end of the present month. Arrangements have been made for the Agent-General for Victoria (Mr Mcßride) to act in a like capacity for New South Wales until a permanent successor to Sir Timothy Coghlan has been appointed. Sir Timothy will retire on a pension of about £GOO per annum. It is understood that he will remain m London and engage in commercial pursuits. Among the bequests for charitable institutions included in the will of the late Mr. T. R. Scarfe are the following to Catholic institutions, free of duty (says the Adelaide Southern Cross): —St. Vincent de Paul’s Orphanage, Goodwood, £400; Catholic Female Refuge. 1 ullarton, £400; St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Largs Bay, £4OO : Father Healy’s Boys’ Shelter, £4OO : St. Ignatius Branch of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Queen street, Norwood, £4OO. The following other institutions likewise benefit;—Orphans’ Home, Adelaide, Incorporated, Mitcham, £4OO : Children’s Home, Incorporated, Walkerville, £4OO : Convalescent Hospital (St. Margaret), Semaphore, £400: Home for Incurables, Fullarton, £400; South Australian Institute for the Blind, Deaf, and Dumb, Brighton, Incorporated, £500; Minda, Home, Incorporated, £SOO. f His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney has received the following acknowledgment from Bishop De Wachter of the £SOO cabled some time ago for Cardinal Mercier’s Fund:—‘Allow me to express my heartiest thanks to your Grace for the £SOO draft in favor of Cardinal Mercier’s fund for the relief of the poor nuns and orphans. His Eminence will be most happy to accept this proof of brotherly sympathy with him ; and with his country. We ask Almighty God’s blessing upon our benefactors who so generously stand by us in our distress. Many of our poor nuns especially saw their convents and schools utterly destroyed, and it. will be a difficult task to rebuild and restore them. But we trust the numerous friends of Belgium will:; come to our assistance. Australia has shown herself so exceedingly charitable that we rely on her to do what her highly appreciated and much valued sympathy will ‘ induce her to do. We will keep as a monument for future ages the generous assistance and sympathetic addresses of the Irish and American and Australian as well as • the English Archbishops and. Bishops, priests,Sand faithful.’