COMMONWEALTH NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 30

COMMONWEALTH NOTES

NEW SOUTH WALES. The Very .'. Rev. \ Father . J. Rossiter, \ M.SS., V returned to Sydney,; a , few weeks ago after a' tour of Victoria and Tasmania, ' and left ' by the Eastern on his ' way ! to China and" Japan. '. ' ■■yyy-*-'.fr->;j-':. ;-fw/v; -, ,) i ~-_,;,,. v .. & A Tl ? e ,?&-' Father P - J. Murphy (Adm., ' St. Mary's Cathedral) has received a letter from v his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney from Colombo, stating that he had arrived there after a pleasant voyage, and that his Lordship the Bishop of Cooktown (Right Rev. Dr. Heavey, 0.5. A.), who was slightly indisposed at the time of his departure from Sydney, was much improved in health. His Grace arrived at i Naples on March 20, and a cable message of recent date conveyed the news that his Grace had received sen. audience with the Holy Father. •:<--.- nsci His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate, accompanied by the 'Rev. Dr. . O'Donnell, of the Goulburn diocese, left Sydney by the Melbourne express recently, on an extended tour ■ of the West. His Excellency will travel by the transcontinental railway to Kalgoorlie, where he has** arranged to spend a few days. From there he goes to Perth, New Norcia, -Geraldton, and the Kimberley Vicariate. Possibly;: his Excellency will then visit Java, ■ and from there take steamer for Port Darwin and Thursday Island. His Excellency does not expect to be back in Sydney before the end of June. ; _ His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Hayden, Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes, has appointed the Right Rev. Mgr. Killian Administrator of the diocese during his absence in Europe. His Lordship will join the R.M.S. Orontes at Adelaide. Archbishop Spence, Archbishop Barry, and Bishop O'Connor, of Armidale, will travel on the same boat. ■""'.'"' ■ 'ii ' : -,i :■■ VICTORIA. Preparations are being made in Melbourne for a great farewell to Archbishop Mannix, who leaves on the 15th of next month for Europe. It is believed that had his Grace accepted the proposed testimonial of £50,000, at least £IOO,OOO would have been readily subscribed. The following cable message was despatched during the week to the Prime Minister of Great Britain (Mr. Lloyd George), the leader of the British Liberal Party (Mr. H. H. Asquith), and the leader of the British Labor Party (Mr. J. R. Clynes), says the Melbourne Tribune of April 8: —"On behalf of themselves and 10,000 Australian soldiers who marched in procession through Melbourne at the St. Patrick's Day celebrations, 14 Australian holders of' the Victoria Cross passed the following resolution: "That we 14 Victoria Cross winners and 10,000 Australian soldiers urge that self-government on the lines demanded by an overwhelming majority of the Irish people be given to Ireland. We fought for liberty, and we claim that Ireland should not be denied. —(Signed)" Sgt. J. W. Whittle, V.C., D.C.M.; Sgt. G. J. Howell, V.C., MM.'" QUEENSLAND. • '■.. i-'i ; During the celebration of early Mass on Easter Sunday, morning, at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane, .his Grace Archbishop Duhig announced that after many difficulties and much waiting, the project of carrying out tho completion of St. Stephen's Cathedral were now sufficiently advanced to permit of the calling of tenders for tho work. This, he remarked, would greatly relieve the congestion, as the extensions would give accommodation for 400 additional worshippers, representing an additional 2000 at the five Masses on Sunday. The work would be carried out in stone of similar quality to the existing portion of the Cathedral. The completion of St. Stephen's, his Grace added, would not interfere with the project of erecting a much-nobler structure on the 1 "Dara" site for cathedral purposes a few years hence. ; The ■ Elizabeth Street edifice would, in the meantime, continue to serve all -necessary purposes. The Apostolic : Delegate; Most Rev. Archbishop Cattaneo, would probably visit ■ Brisbane in July next, to open the new convent of the Sacred Heart Nuns at Stuartholme, 'and it was probable that he would also consent 'to' lay the foundation stone' of the extension of St. Stephen's about the same time.•"' ; ' '• .-:- -i » { i-j)?,u ' ! """ From unexpected quarters (writes the Brisbane correspondent of the Catholic Press) we hear now and > again unstinted praise to ' our'bishops and archbishops : for their prescience, wisdom, and genius for selecting the finest sites for our churches, schools, convents, etc., and the latest tribute from the Telegraph is well worth quotirig: "The visitor to Brisbane \ must be struck with the evident plan I of the Catholic Church to build for itself -imposing, build-I

ings on Prominent sites in this city. Rottlelis'The City of the Seven Hills,' but Brisbane v is.. a city, of a Hundred hills but ClfT I™ 6 t l h6m rig^tly ' Give to the Hawkesbury but half the legends haunting ; the Rhine, and you have a tar nobler, far more:majestic' river. i Wherever you wan. cler in f Brisbane or its suburbs, you see on J the crest of a S* ! U i° h or a convent or. a college, built by Catholics! JSffiiL * ■ fT"? to a uestion of appearance, of these the cJZ? Sl f? h T , be ? n taken ' ■■■-■■ • The authorities of the -Catholic Church look to the* hills-, for > sites their churches, convents, and colleges. In doing so -■ they add n?i M ? 6aU - y ? t ? Clty ' and th °y show an example which might be widely followed." ..... _ .' T y V WEST AUSTRALIA. .' : - ! - '?-.n'^§: to fwl^^r 6 ?- 8 ' arch 19 ' Bi stop KeUy returned to Geraldton, thus bringing to a close a tour of the fields which had begun towards the end of January. Had he been given a choice (says the W. Record) he would hardly have selected the middle of summer for his : journey but it was necessary to' go without loss of time/and at its conclusion he had the satisfaction of feeling that the mam object with which he set out had been accomplished. His companions were the Vicar-General, Mgr. Graber and Gmlfoyle, the chauffeur, and although they travelled nearly 1600 miles, and experienced a" temperature almost constantly above 100, and sometimes running as high as 114 and 116 degrees, they • returned well and happy, and even gained weight during their wanderings. 1 hey are extremely grateful to all who supported them and helped them during those weeks, and whose kindness enabled them to report a successful termination of their mission almost unhoped for at first. ' ~ " • -■•-. ••■■•■ . ... ■> .7 ' TASMANIA. ■ - Most Rev. Dr. Barry (the Coadjutor-Archbishop * of Hobart) returned to Hobart on the evening of the 23rd lilt after visiting all the parishes in the North- Coast districts. His Grace was away nearly three months. ' Dr. Barry leaves for Sydney early next month, to take his departure for Rome. During this visitation Archbishop Barry earned the gratitude of his flock in those parishes. This manifestation is quite understandable, when it is known that several of tho parishes had not been visited by a prelate for many years (says an exchange). One parish—Kimberley—visited by Dr. Barry had not been favored similarly for 74 years. The last prelate to visit Kimberley was Bishop Willson, of Hobart, who went there in the year 1846 —74 years ago !