Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1917, Page 41

Intercolonial

, Before Christmas,•.'Archbishop Mannix cabled ' a round £3000: to Dublin to aid the Irish Relief Fund. Tins made a total of £6OOO from Melbourne. • '; " ; The Premier of Victoria, : Sir A. J. Peacock, during the, welcome to'his Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Ballarat, on the occasion of his' first official visit to .Creswick, paid a tribute to his Lordship's splendid qualities. He claimed his Lordship as a personal friend, and -joined with the Catholic community Sin•; welcoming the Bishop to the parish. , \ . . •'" The many friends of his Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Clune, Archbishop of Perth, W.AC; and of his brother, Captain-Chaplain Francis Clune, C.P., will learn with regret that the latter has been wounded.. His injuries are the result of an. exploding shell. His sight has been affected, but at the time of cabling Father Francis was much improved, and there was every hope of preserving his sight. - , ■'.: s , l (i ' ". S -."V A brilliant career was , unhappily cut short -recently, when Miss Ella McGoldrick, one of Australia's most gifted singers, met a tragic death by falling over the Queenscliff Headland, Manly, Sydney. . : The deceased was a native of Toowoomba, Queensland, .24 years of age, and sister to the Rev. Father W. McGoldrick, who is secretary to his Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Duhig, Coadjutor-Archbishop of Brisbane. Her marvellous voice attracted widespread attention, and Miss McGoldrick went to Sydney and placed herself under the tuition of Signor de Giorgio. [' ■'■■."'•. At a meeting of the City Council held on. Saturday afternoon, December 9, Alderman R. D. Meagher ..was, re-elected as Lord Mayor of Sydney. The only other candidate was Alderman .Joynton Smith. The allowance was increased from £IOOO per annum to £ISOO. Lord Mayor Meagher's election to a second term of office (says the Sydney Freeman) was no particular surprise, for it is doubtful if any occupant of the chair in the past has done better work or represented the ratepayers of the city of Sydney with more tact and dignity. Just as Richard Denis Meagher has disarmed the most hostile of his Parliamentary critics'by the ability and fairness which he brought to the Speakership, so as Chief Magistrate he has turned enemies into friends by his display of the best qualities that such a high and honorable position demands. The Very Rev. W. J. Lockington, S.J. (Rector, of St. Patrick's College, Melbourne), severely criticised the evil production, ' Damaged Goods,' when speaking at the twelfth annual meeting of the Australian Truth Society the other day (says the Sydney Freeman). He said the play was staged in California a few years ago, and, owing to the strong opposition shown to it by the Catholic men and women there, the producer had the very life frightened out of him. He' wished that there was a similar opposition to the play here. He commended the attitude of the morning papers in regard to it, and condemned strongly the,, approval of it -as publicly expressed by four clergymen. These clergymen, he said, had in their guidance to God thousands of Australians. ' What manner of guides were they who voiced such opinions of the play? Such opinions had to be combated, and would be combated only by Catholics, who judged everything by the Ten Commandments in their original form, and not by their suggested revised edition. ' ":•.'.',. i: .'-:Jy-. : •■-/'. y: Yjx,-. ''■.•-'■■,..'.■■ ; -