COMMONWEALTH NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, 28 August 1919, Page 30

COMMONWEALTH NOTES

NEW SOUTH. WALES. , '-A • cable message -f received last •■ week; announces the death of* the Right- Rev. John Dunne, D.D., Bishop o£*Bathurst.>--- The deceased prelate was the third Bishop of that See, ( and his episcopal consecration took: place: in 1901. .' :"-■.:- --^ r - ' ' ; >' '■ General regret^ will be felt in Sydney at the announcement of the death, from pneumonic-influenza, of-the Very Rev. Father : J. Taylor, S.M., which occurred- at Townsville on Tuesday, 29th • ult. (says- the Catholic' Press). The late Father Taylor. was : ; Superior of the band of Marist 'Missionaries'who have been working in various States for the past three or four years. 'At the -time of " his ' death, he - was'with Father Herring and Father Herbert, working through the Rockhampton diocese, where they had spent 7 more ..than a. year, with the exception of the extreme summer months '. As a missionary, . Father Taylor was specially gifted. , He had a fine presence and a good voice. One of the : Australian Bishops remarked of his work that it was absolutely solid and reliable. Father Taylor was, he said, one of the best missionaries., in a.mixed community he had ever met. His death will be a severe blow to the Marist Fathers.

The Christian Brothers’ golden jubilee - was celebrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral .on - Thursday , and Friday, July 31 and August 1,, with solemn and deeplyimpressive ceremonies. On Thursday all the boys attending the Christian Brothers’ schools in and around Sydney attended Mass and received Holy Communion in their own parishes, to .specially offer up thanks to God for the past 50 years. Then,/shortly, after 9 o’clock, they/. were marshalled in a body /at Phillip, Park, Cathedral Street, . opposite-St. Mary’s Cathedral, and marched . to- the Cathedral, where Solemn- High Mass was celebrated. His Grace the: Archbishop of Sydney presided. The celebrant was Father;. R. Darby,- Father D.’ Conaghan was deacon,- Father T. Kelleher subdeacon, and. Father E. Bond master of ceremonies. A choir of 300 -of the Brothers’ pupils’. rendered, Battman’s. Mass in two parts, with orchestral accompaniment. At - the Offertory boys, of- St. Mary’s Cathedral and Balmain East.-sang Delany’s beautiful “Salve Regina.” During the Mass these two choirs . also rendered the “Benedictus,” which was specially composed for the occasion by Mr. W." Asprey, and which deeply .impressed the, immense congregation. At the conclusion of ■ the -Mass the whole congregation of boys, stood and sang “Faith of Our’ Fathers.”

. - At St. Mary’s Cathedral, Armidale, on Sunday, July 20, his Lordship Dr. O’Connor announced that his Excellency the Apostolic Delegate would visit., Armidale, on December 14 next. - , His Excellency, his Lordship, said, would officiate at several important functions, and he was sure that the occasion of his visit would be a red-letter day in the history of . the Armidale diocese. ~ The visit would .mark the, ration of the / golden ; jubilee -of the diocese and .the consecration of * the Cathedral,

VICTORIA. "It used to be said,-and:: with truth, .that .many.:of * the household of the Faith failed to remember Cath- '-■ olic churches when making their wills. It is : satisfactory to find that, of late years, the duty of including these institutions has been • recognised (says _ an. exchange). Probate of the will of 'Michael Kennedy, late of Wales. Street, Footscray, has been applied ' for U_ ili a wy uuo "J.l aviuuai May 2 last. His estate is valued at £2547, being realty £2OO and personality £2347; -Testator bequeathed £I7OO to relatives in Ireland and the balance of. his estate.to St. Vincent's Hospital and St. Joseph's Home,. Sunfey Hills. '/'"• . -.. _ v , ..■■"•"' ' . \." ::-i Margaret Riordan, late of Rosary Place, Bea- : consfield. Parade, South Melbourne, widow, -who died 3 ion" April 23, by her will of ; November 5, 1915; left *

.£6630 real estate and £B34' personalty. She bequeathed £lO each to two women, legatees at Brunswick, and. the balance ’of /the' estate to the Archbishop of Melbourne, to be spent towards the,erection, equipment, and maintenance of ; Newman 1 .College] Melbourne University, subject to• “Mount Carmel,” her home, land and furniture at Berwick being made over th© Sisters 7 of -the Good Shepherd, South Melbourne; “Innisfail” and the landJattached to that house at Berwick to St. Michael's Church, Berwick,; and £IOO each, being paid to St, Vincent de Paul’s Orphanage for Boys and x Girls, and the Carmelite /Fathers, Port, Melbourne; £SO ho ,the Little Sisters] Northcote; and £2O each to St. Joseph’s Home, Surrey Hills, and St. Augustine’s Orphanage, Geelong. “From the half-yearly distribution of the Felton bequests of £7620 the following charities under Catholic auspices benefit: —St. Vincent’s Hospital, £100; St. Vincent de Paul’s Boys’ and Girls’ Orphanages, . South Melbourne, £2O . each;, St. Vincent de - Paul Society, £ls; St. Augustine’s Orphanage (Boys’), £4O; and St. Catherine’s. Orphanage (Girls’), Geelong; £25. From the James Maron estate the South .Melbourne orphanages receive £175 each. From the T. J. Sumner estate the Little Sisters of the Poor, Northcote, receive £2O.

“Miss Catherine Noonan, late of Dudley Street, West Melbourne, who died on February 20, by her will of December 27, 1917, left £475 real estate, and £13,302 personalty to her, sister, subject to payment of £SO each to St. Vincent’s Hospital, the Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Vincent d© Paul’s Boys’ and Girls’ Orphanages, . South Melbourne, the Foundling Hospital, St. Joseph’s-Home, for Destitute Children, Surrey Hills, .and the Magdalen© Asylum, Abbotsford; £25 each. to St. Augustine’s Orphanage for Boys, Geelong, Our Lady’s Orphanage for Girls, Geelong, the Receiving Home, Grattan Street, Carlton, the primary school, Cumberland Place, , Melbourne", and the Magdalen Asylum, South .Melbourne.”

QUEENSLAND. The death, at Townsville, of the Rev. Father J. Taylor, Superior of the Marist Missionaries in Australia, came as a great shock to the Catholic people, of Rockhampton, and the Central District, where he has conducted many ,missions, as well as. in the northern portion of.the diocese of; Rockhampton. As a lecturer and missioner he was held in the highest esteem, not only by Catholic people, but many outside the Church. A Requiem Mass' was celebrated at St. Joseph’s Cathedral for the repose of his soul. The funeral was largely attended, and took place from the Sacred Heart Church, Townsville, after the celebration of the Solemn Requiem Mass. His Grace the Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Rev. Dr. Duhig, at the 11 o'clock Mass in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, recently, stated that the St. Stephen’s Ladies’ Epidemic Relief Committee would extend its scope of activity, now that the decline of influenza in the community rendered unnecessary further assistance in that direction. His Grace voiced his disapproval of the , inadequate response made by. many ladies, or,, as he preferred to call them, women. He would jemind .them that there was no greater honor than to work for God’s Church and the poor. Patriotic works for soldiers were very good, and he had nothing to say against them, but many wealthy Catholics have no time for the ordinary work of the Church and anything concerned with the promotion of the glory of God. 1 They make many excuses, and the work of the Church was left to the poor people - the others had no time, and said so. But the Church did not say she had no time for a Requiem Mass for the soldiers. He hoped those in good circumstances would give some time to working for the Church.