Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 15 March 1917, Page 51

Intercolonial

The new Marist Brother Superior, Rev. Brother George, who takes the place of the late Rev. Brother Stanislaus, has arrived at New Norcia, W.A. Rev. Brother George, who comes from the High School, Darlinghurst, has a high reputation as an educationalist.

Rev. Father P. Tighe, S.J., who left early last year as chaplain to the Australian troops, is returning to Sydney. Shell shock, with a heavy attack of influenza supervening, sent him to the south of France by doctor’s orders. Though recovering, he is still in an unsatisfactory state of health.

Lady Galway (Catholic wife of the Governor of South Australia) received a telegram recently informing her of the death of hex' mother, Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett, widow of the Right Hon. Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, who was the fourth baronet. iShe was the only daughter of the Count and Countess de Leyden. Lady Galway’s nephew, Sir Marmaduke Blennerhassett, the present Baronet, was born oh November 20, 1902, and succeeded his father in 1915.

The Very Rev. Father J. Lee, M.S.H. (Superior of the Sacred Heart Order in South Australia), has taken up duties as chaplain in the A.1.F., and went into the Mitcham Camp the other day. This has necessitated the appointment of another priest to the Brompton parish, where the members of the Sacred Heart Order are located, and the Rev. Father James Power, of Kensington (N.S.W.), began duties there last week. Rev. Father McFarlane, M.S.H., is acting as Superior.

His Grace Archbishop Duhig opened a new convent at Corinda on a recent Sunday. This convent will be conducted by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Corixxda is part of the Goodxxa parish, in charge of Father Stapleton. Up to the jxresexxt the only school available was the State school, and the Sisters of Mercy have tor some years journeyed from Brisbane on Sundays and conducted Catechism classes. The growing needs of this centre, which is on the main railway line between Brisbane and Ipswich, called for a convent, which is now an established fact. I The whole of the proceeds of the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day in Adelaide are to be devoted to the liquidation of the Archdiocesan debt. At the request of his Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Spence, Archbishop of Adelaide, a meeting of the District Board of the Hibernian Society and delegates from the branches was held in the Catholic Club on a recent Buxxday, for the pui'pose of making ax'rangements for the celebration this this year. It was decided to hold the religious ceremonies in St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral on Saturday, March 17, followed by a procession, and in the afternoon a sports demonstration on the Jubilee Oval. In the evening the National concert will be held in the Exhibition Hall.

Mother Mary Patrick Hickey, who died recently, was the oldest nun in, the Presentation Order in Tasmania. Born in Dublin, she was the daughter of one of the four chief inspectors of national educatioxx in Ireland, was at school ixx Thurles, axxd professed in the Presexxtatioxx Coxxvexxt in Ferxxxoy. She wexxt to Tasmania at the ixxvitatioxx of the late Archbishop Murphy, to be mistress of novices for the new Presexxtation Comnxuxxity at Hobart, axxd in 1872 was oxxe of the pioneer Sisters who opexxed the school ixx Launceston for Deaxx Butler, having rexxxaixxed ixx the community at Lauxxcestoxx ever sixxce. The deceased nun was mistress of novices for maxxy years. She was very widely known amoxxgst the old pupils of the convent, but had been axx invalid for about fifteen years. In her seventyeighth year, she took ill about a fortnight ago, gradually declined, axxd passed away fortified by the rites of Holy Church.