PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 2 September 1920, Page 39

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

Trinity College of Music, London, sends this year to Australasia, as examiner,' Mr. Albert Mallinson, the famous song-composer, whose work is so well known in Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Mallinson will undertake examinations in Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania. Recitals by Mr. and Mrs. Mallinson have been a feature of the London musical world for many years, and the charming recitals they gave in Australia and New Zealand some few years ago, under engagement to Meynell and Gunn, are still fresh in the recollection of music-lovers. Mr. Mallinson, who some little time ago, was received into the Catholic Church, has composed nearly 400 songs.

On Wednesday, June 23, in St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, the Bishop-elect of Brentwood (the Right Rev. Mgr. Arthur Doubleday, 8.A.) was consecrated by his Eminence Cardinal Bourne, assisted by the Bishops of Southwark and Portsmouth. The solemn ceremony was attended by more than 200 clergy and members of religious Orders of the archdiocese of Westminster and of Southwark and Brentwood, whilst the laity were extremely well represented. In the sanctuary were the Archbishop of Simla, Bishops Dunn, Butt, Bidwell, and W. Keatinge, C.M.G. The Chapters of Portsmouth and of the two dioceses immediately interested in the ceremony were also largely represented.

Cardinal Julius Boschi, formerly Archbishop of Ferrara and Bishop of Comacchio, Italy, died in Rome on May 16. Tie was taken suddenly ill after the ceremonies of canonisation in St. Peter’s Basilica thatmorning. The late Cardinal was born in Perugia, Italy, March 2, 1838. lie studied at the Gregorian University in Rome, and was ordained to the priesthood, May 27, 1861. He received various ecclesiastical honors, and in 1888 was made Bishop of Tocli, being later transferred to Senigaglia. In 1900 he succeeded Cardinal Respighi as Archbishop of Ferrary, and in 1901 he was created Cardinal ,by Pope Leo XIII. Recently he has been Bishop of Frascati, near Rome. He was a member and consultor of various Roman Congregations of Cardinals. By the death at Ballarat (Vic.) of Mother M. Hilda Benson, the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary has lost a valued and venerable member. The deceased religious was a native of Yorkshire, England, and a convert won to the Church by the notable Redemptorist, Father Furniss. As a graduate of Notre Dame Training College, Liverpool, Mother M. Hilda was well nipped for her work in Australia, where she landed some 40 years ago. Five primary schools conducted by the Loreto Nuns owe their existence to hex' zeal and powers of organisation. She was also the first principal of the first Catholic training college in Australia—namely, that established in Dawson Street, Ballarat, in the early ’eighties by the enterprise of the late Mother Provincial of the T.8.V.M., Rev. Mother Gonzaga Barry. Mother M. Hilda’s influence on this-important- work was of immense extent, and her memory is held in deep veneration by numbers of ex-students of the college, not a few of whom are now members of various religious Orders. When the Bishops of Australasia conceived the idea of a Central Catholic Training College in Melbourne, and entrusted it to the Loreto Nuns, Mother M. Hilda was transferred to this wider field of labor. The high standard of excellence which the Central Training College admittedly reached, and of which it can s.tiTl boast to-day, is due, in the first place, to the solid foundations laid by Mother M. Hilda, whose untiring zeal in the cause of religious education was unique.