INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 17, 23 April 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The Very Rev. Father Campion, priest in charge of the Parkes district, is about to take a 12 months' holiday in Ireland.

The Very Rev. Father Le Rennetel, S.M., has been appointed by his Eminence Cardinal Moran a member of the Diocesan Council.

A -very beautiful statue of St. Patrick has been placed in the sanctuary of St Francis's Church, Melbourne. It was imported by Messrs. Louis Gille and Co. to the order of the Very Rev. W. J. Quilter.

The Rev. Father P. B. Lawler, 0.F.M., who was for many years in charge of St. Francis's Church, Paddington, has been appointed to the charge of St. Joseph's, Woollahra.

The Rev. Father Brosnan, M.A., Professor at St. Patrick's College, Manly, has gone to Ireland. During the past two years Father Brosnan has been in poor health.

The Rev. Father P. M. Ryan, who had been two years in the old country in charge of a parish in the archdiocese of Westminster, has returned to Sydney. He went away very ill, and his friends are delighted to find that he is now in magnificent health and looking quite a young man again.

His Eminence Cardinal Moran has made the following changes in the archdiocese of Sydney : — The Rev. Father Moore, of St. Francis', Haymarket, has been appointed to the charge of the parish of Milton ; the Rev. Father Malone, who has just returned from an extended trip through Europe, has been appointed to assist the Rev. Father Holland at Nowra.

"With unfeigned pleasure our readers (says the ' Freeman's Journal ') will learn that the Rev. Father John, C.P., who was driven by overwork — and the will of his Superior — to take a rest for some time amidst the nervesoothing quiet of the Monastery, Goulburn, has almost recovered his former health. It is probable he will be shortly once more on the mission.

The Rev. M. P. Malone, formerly attached to the Sacred Heart Church, Darhnghurst, and chaplain of St. Vincent's Hospital has returned to Sydney after three years' absence Father Malone, who left here in impaired health, returns to the archdiocese very much improved by his -vacation, which was spent between iesitlence in Ireland and tra"\el in Euiope and America.

In view ol the fact that the Irish delegation to Australia has been postponed, the Sydney Home Rule committee are circularising committees in the country urging that all subscriptions in hand .should be lorwarded to the Sydney fund so that they may be able to icmit to London as large an amount as possible.

The Catholics of the Armidale diocese aie making great preparations ior the consecration of the new Coadjut or-Bishop (Mgr. O'Connor), which will take place on May ■'?. r i hey intend to mark the o\ent in a piactical wa\ by presenting him with a handsome testimonial in the shape of a purse oi so\ereigns and an illuminated addiess

A Brisbane con espondent, writing of the destructi\e cyclone that \ isited Townsville a lew weeks ago, sa,\ s that the terrible gale sent the non flying oil the rool ol the new Sacied Heart Church like so much tissue paper, and the rain has considerably stained and otheiwiso damaged the coiling E\ery Catholic building at Bowon, with the exception of the coment, was le\elled to the ground, and the new Catholic Church at A> r, recently erected at a cost of £700, and on which theic is still a considerable debt, met a like fate.

It has pot jet -been -dOcideil (says the ' Ficeman's Journal 'f^y the parishioners of Villa Maria what foim the proposed memorial to the late Father Muraire w'lll assume A number of parishioners are in favor of enlarging the church, which is eNery year becoming less adeo/iate to the increasing Catholic population. This, if practical, would seem a graceful way ot commemorating the work of the late pansh priest, who spent long hours in meditation and prayer beside its altar.

Referring to the "Hill Mackv riots the ' Temora Star ' has the follow in" • — ' For 20 years or more, Temora has been peacefull\ at rest, and the absence of sectarian strife was one of its proud boasts : but, alas, the discord note has been struck, and the peace that has so long been with us, is likely to be of the past. This is to be regretted, inasmuch that it rises up unnecessary strife in our community, which will take time to o\ercome The e%il effects of sectarianism is only too apparent at Wvalong, and why should we be hurled into the vortex of unrest through the views of extreme sectarians The visit of T)r. Macky acted like a match in a keg of gunpowder, and we foresaw this long before his advent The noting on Friday last did not e\entuate from one particular denomination, because youths of all religions took a free hand in the bombardment of the meeting place. Let us hope that last Friday night's riot will be the first and last to be witnessed in Temoia ' ____^___^___^_

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