INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 16, 17 April 1902, Page 7

INTERCOLONIAL.

Miss Amy Castles had a brilliant debut in Melbourne last week where Bhe gave three concerts. A Wellington paper says that she is expeoted in New Zealand early next month.

Mr. Byrne, of Goodna (Queensland), who is over 100 years of age, marched in the procession to the tports ground at Ipswich on St. Patrick's Day.

Mr. Benjamin Hoare (of the Melbourne Age") is about to re-enter the marriagre state, his fiancee being Mips E. Tuite, a prominent member oi the Geeloug Children of Mary. Miss Tuite was recently the recipient of some valuable presents from the members of the Sodality.

According to the Cumberland Argus Lieutenant H. Morant, ' one of the Australians shot by court-martial at South Africa for murder (shooting unarmed Boers) was a kind of rouseabout in the Hawkesbury district, and earned a precarious living writing verse and riding horses at shows.'

Very deep sympathy is felt in South Australia with the Right Hon. C. C. Kingston and Mrs. Kingston in the death of their son, Master Kevin Kingston. Both parents were devotedly attached to the boy, and Mr. Kingston left his important duties at the Federal Parliament to spend hours watching at the patient's bedside in the Hospital. The funeral took place on St. Patrick's Day, and after a short ceremony at St Patrick's Church, the body waa interred in the Kingston family vault at West-terrace, Adelaide. Rev. Father M'G rath conducted the ceremony at the grave.

Churches, convents, schools are spreading throughout the length and breadth of this State (writer a Melbourne correspondent), no less than in the sister States of the Commonwealth. Week by week some work of this kind is either initiated or the finishing touch is given to it by a member of the Hierarchy or his deputy. Recently the memorial-stone of what will be a handsome brick church was laid by the Right Rev. Dr. Reville, 0.5.A., Bishop of Sandhurst, at one of the important centres of the Goulburn Valley — Numurkah. His Lordship was presented with an address at the luncheon, which followed the function. The pastor, Rev. Jas. M'Carthy, has been attached to the Bendigo diocese for the past 25 years. He was promoted from Shepparton to Numurkah as pastor.

By the lamented death of the Rev. T. M'Elligott the Ballarat diocese haa sustained a severe loes. Young and enthusiastic to a degree, the deceased clergyman threw himself heart and soul into his work. He labored successfully in several parishes and missions of the diocese ruled by the Right Rev. Dr. Moore. Death found him 'in harness' as pastor of Clunes. Father M'Elligott, who was a native of Connty Keny, Ireland, was in hia 38th year. The immediate cause of death was consumption — that fell disease which is, unfortunately, rampant in Australia, no less than in Europe and America. The presence at tho obsequies of s large body of his fellow-priests and many of the laity of both sexes testified to the very high respect in which the rev. gentleman was held. Father M'Elligott wna an alumnus ot the famous missionary college of All Hallows, Drumcondia, Dublin.

His Grace Archbishop Kelly presided at the final meeting of the Sydney St. Patrick's Day Committee, when the financial results of the recent celebration were announced. The report disclosed the fact that the gross takings on fct. Patrick's Day amounted to £1050 13s 2d, and the expenditure £41)9 2a lOd, leaving a net profit of £551 10s 4d. It was proposed that of this amount £535 should be divided amongst the following seven orphanages in the p<oportion of £75 each : — St Vincent's Home for Destitute Boys, YYestmead (conducted by the Mari&t Brothers) ; St. Jo?eph's Oiphanage for Boys. Kincumber (conducted by the fei&tera of St. Joseph) ; St. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls, Lane Cove road (conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph) ; St. Anne's Orphanage for Girls, Liverpool (conducted by the Sifters of Charity) ; St. Brigid's Orphanage for Girls, Eyde (conducted by the Sifters of Mercy from Parramt>tta) ; Industrial Orphan Reformatory for Girls, M:»n]y (conducted by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan) : Foundling Hospital, Waitara (conducted by the Sisters of Mercy).

L. J. Brient, late editor of ihe Fyilncj Daily Telegrajrfi, was a fruit-box maker by trade at Hobart befou 1 he tnok to j .urnalism. When he first wrote for thePrtf-s he j'Cfived 4s a week On tho Telegraph his salary was £1000 a year. He is now in Loi.don. Mr Courtney, the Telegrajjh's \i>ov>eriul leader-writer, was brought up on a farm, and did manual labor for a time in Sydney. He taught himself to write, John Farrell, another leader-writer, has aleo had a chequered career. He was running a little brewery when he was called to the editorial chair of the Telegraph, some 12 years ago. The third leader-writer on the paper, Mr Taparell, confess that he ■was 19 before he had any notion of English grammar. He had been apprenticed to a barber, a blacks- mith, a draper, and an auctioneer before he found his way into the effice ot the Wairarapa Daily Times in this Colony. These men (says the Catholic Press} were turned out of the University of Hard Graft, which i 3 not endowed by Governments, and has no frock-coated professors, yet can claim among its students the most successful men in Australia and in the United States of America.