INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 26, 26 June 1902, Page 7

INTERCOLONIAL.

On Friday morning, June 6, hia Excellency the Governor of New South Wales, accompanied by Major Holan, A.D.O.paid a visit to hia Grace the Coadjutor- Archbishop at St. Mary's. The Vice-Regal party was received by the Right Rev. Monfignor O'Brien, the Very Rev. Dean Slatterv, Very Rev. Dean Ilealy, the Wry Rev P. A. Slattery, O F.M , the Very Rev. P. C. f'regaa (Arim.), the Rev] J. Whyte ClnspectorC lnspector of Diocesan Schools), and tho Rev. M. a[ Flemming (Archbishop's private secretary). Sir Harry Rawson also paid a visit to the Cathedral, and expressed surj riso and admiration at the magnificent structure. On Thursday, June 5, the eve of the Feast of the Sacred Heart' just as the sun was sinking in the west (says the Freeman's Journal), the sweet and gentle spirit of Mother Mary Agnes was calmly passing away at the Convent of Mercy, Bathurst. Mother Agnes was one of the very oldest Sister 3of Mercy in the world, being in the 59th year of her religions profession. She was the youngest daughter of the late Mr M. M'Sweeney, Customs Officer in County Cork, Ireland, a sister of the Very Rev. D. M'Sweeney, County Cork, and cousin of the Venerable Archbishop of Cashel, Dr. Croke. The deceased was bom at Queenstown in 1823, and at the early age of 16 entered the Convent of Mercy, Charleville. On August 24 the Very Rev. Father Le Rennetel, S.M., the popular parish priest of St. Patrick's, Sydney, will celebrate his silver jubilee. With a view to marking the occasion in a fitting manner a number of his friends and admirers have decided to make him a presentation of an address and a purse of sovereigns. At a meeting held recently for this purpose the Mayor of Sydney presidrd, and a sum of nearly £100 was promised, father Pere Le Rennetel was born in Brittany (France) in 1851. Educated at St. Meen's College, near Rennes, he was ordained priest on August 24, 1877, and two yeara later sailed for Australia, arriving in Sydney in November, 1879. His first appointment was to St. Michael's, Dawes Point, whence he went to St. John's College, Camperdown. In 1883 he was appointed parish priest of of St. Patrick'?, where he has since labored, and earned the respect and goodwill of all with whom he has come in contact. The question of raffling at bazaars (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Southern Cross") has once more been under fierce discussion among non-Catholics. A few weeks back some members of Parliament attended an Anglican bazaar at Graf ton, and advised the stallholders not to mind the scruples of their pastor, Archdeacon Moxon, but to go in for raffles if they wanted to make the bazaar interesting and to make money. They followed the advice, and the Archdt aeon cloned up the bazaar and returned the money to those who invested in raffles. There was great indignation on both sides, the parishioners looking upon it as an infringement of the right of private judgment. At the Newcastle Synod, on a motion sympathising with Archdeacon Moxon, Bishop Stretch lashed the pious people. He said that the Ten Commandments were quite as much as most people could observe, acd he objected to the Synod adding their commandments. By doing so in this instance they would be making a guilty thing of an innocent thing. Much of the talk against raffling was ' goody-goo'ly.' As the Devil said in • Faust/ it was ' Wordn, words, words.' He repeated that much of the feeling in this matter was prompted by goody-goo'iiness rather than goodness. An attempt was being nnde to blink the fact that the motive was the tent all the time. There was no gambling where there was no w-ln\hni 83. Ha would yte against the amendment because he objected to tyranny. lie had a very great objection to Synods or anybody else making commandments which were not of Divine origin. Cardinal Moran (writes the Rome correspondent of the Sydnry Freeman's Journal, under date May 5) has been feted and visited almost day in and day out during liia btay in Rome, a guest at home in the Irish College, and outside, in the houses of friends and in conventual and ecc'esia&tical institutions. Meantime, he has been busy at work, But of all hiH movements in Rome, since those reported in my letter of April 12, the most important and interesting is the visit which he paid to the Holy Father during the week jußt ended. The Cardinal, it will be remembered had already enjoyed two private audiences with the Pope. On this occasion he had two more ; one before, and the other after, a presentation of visitors, which was as if an Australasian pilgrimage to the Silver Jubilee of the Pontificate of Leo XIII., and which in this way Bhould be the embryo of many another. Not all presented were Catholics, nor were all residents of Australia ; a few were Australasians resident in Rome, others were the Australian students of the Irish and Urban Colleges. Among the lay members of the deputation were Mrs Baker, of Adelaide, the mother of Sir Richard Baker, the President of the Upper House of the Commonwealth Parliament, with whom were Miss Baker and Miss Ross ; Mrs Loughnan, of Christchurch (N.Z.), with whom were her daughter, the Misses' Loughnan ; Mrs and Miss Harper, of Christchurch ; Mr Loughnan (nephew of Mrs Loughnan), and Mrs Howard, Mips Geraghty, and Miss Quirk, both of Melbourne ; Misa Mann, and others, of Sydney. Among the ecclesiastics were the Very Rev Dean O'Connell, of Hayj New South Wales ; the Rev Father Fitzsimmons, of Rockhampton; and, finally, some Australian religious belonging to the Little Sistera of the Poor and to the Little Company of Mary. In all, mote than 50 persons were presented and received by the Pope as Australasian pilgrims. The Cardinal also introduced the Very Rev. Canon Hutch, of Middleton, Ireland ; Mrs Mulhall, the widow of Mr Mulhall, the statistician ; Miss Dease, the daughter of Mr Edmund Dease ; and Miss Kennedy, all of them Irish vititora in Rome.