Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 15 June 1916, Page 45

Intercolonial

The Catholic Soldiers’ - Guild at the 7 Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, has now a membership of close on 2000. - Under the will of the late Mr. John Norris, of Junee, who died in February last, £IOO has been bequeathed to the priest in charge of the Junee parish for Masses or the repose of testator’s soul, and £2OO to. the Rev. Mother, Sisters of Mercy Convent, Junee. With the object of securing Sir David Hennessy’s election for a fifth term as Lord Mayor of Melbourne, representations have been made by several councillors to induce him to again offer his services. Apart from recognition of the worthy manner in which Sir David Hennessy has filled the position for the past four years, it is considered by many that the time is inopportune for a change. The Rev, Father T. Van der Schueren, S.J., of the Bengal Belgian Mission, who is visiting Australia on a health quest, has been cordially received by their Excellencies the Governor-General and the State Governor, and the Victorian Premier, Sir A. J. Peacock, who kindly gave the visitor a pass for the Victorian railways. Father Schueren also visited Sale, being the bearer of a letter to Bishop Phelan from the Governor of Bengal, Lord Carmichael, formerly Governor of Victoria. By the last mail his Grace the Most Rev. Dr, Clune, Archbishop of Perth, received a letter from the Rev. Chaplain-Captain J. Fahey, D. 5.0., who has rejoined his famous 11th Battalion. In the course of an interesting epistle. Father Fahey says : ‘ I have to thank your Grace for the congratulatory cable sent on behalf of yourself and the priests while I was in Ireland. I also had one, which I value very much, from General Birdwood, the brave and capable general whom all Australians love.’ The death of the Rev. Father Patrick S. Cussen, C.SS.R., occurred at the Mater Misericordise Hospital, Brisbane, on May 26. The late Father Cussen was born in County Kerry in 1860. He studied in All Hallows and Thurles Colleges, in which latter place he was ordained priest on August 10, 1886, for the diocese of Goulburn. While a secular priest he labored chiefly in Wagga arid Young. He entered the Redemptorist novitiate in Dundalk, Ireland, in 1889, and made his religious vows on April 26, 1900. The Very Rev. John Creagh, C.SS.R., Rector of the Redemptorist Monastery, North Perth, has been appointed Superior of the Kimberley Vicariate. All the priests and people of the archdiocese (says the W.A. Record while congratulating him on the very signal and marked confidence placed in him on his appointment, will deeply regret his severance from the archdiocese of Perth, where his genial personality, his brilliant preaching, and his zeal in apostolic work were so warmly appreciated. Very Rev. Father Creagh was well and favorably known as a zealous and enthusiastic missioner in Ireland,. Philippine Islands, and New Zealand, in all of which places his kindly and generous personality is affectionately remembered. The Vicariate is about 120,000 square miles in extant. Some of our readers will remember that a mission for Christianising aborigines was formed at Beagle Bay by his Lordship Bishop Gibney in the year 1890. The Trappists, to whose care the mission was at first committed, continued for ten years with varying degrees of success, until 1900, when Bishop Kelly, of Geraldton, during his visit to Rome, secured the services of the Fathers of the Pious Society of Missions, who have continued to do the apostolic work' begun by the Trappists.