INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 30 July 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The estate of the late Mr. J. M. Toohey has been sworn at £275,000. Sister Mary Xavier, who had labored for about seven years at St. Bngid's Orphanage, Hyde, .N.S.W., died recently at the Lewisham Hospital. She was 31 years of age and a natne of Queensland. Sister Maiy Augustine, of the Presentation Order, has passed aw at at the Convent, Mount St. Mary's, jiobait The deceased w a.s d convert to the Catholic laith, and daughter of the late Stewart Warrender Viney, ol Victoria, and was in the 46id y««r oi her age, and Mxth of her religious profession. No fewer than four clerical presentations came oft the other week (wntes the Melbourne correspondent of the ' Freeman's Journal '). Handsome monetary and other gifts weic presented to Rev. James Carroll, Marong (Bendigo diocese), and to Rev. E. J. Luby, Brunswick, on the occasion of their silver sacerdotal jubilee celebration , whilst the Revs W. Hartnett (formerly of Daylesfoid) and A Vaughan (Collingwood) received each a substantial pioof of their popularity amongst the Daylcsfoid and Bardford people respectively. Australian experiments into wireless telegraphy ha\e been thoroughly successful, and Mr. llesketh, the chief electrician attached to the Brisbane General Post Office, reports that communication satisfactory in every way has been maintained between Tangaluma (Moreton Island) and the na\al stores, South Brisbane, a distance of 32 miles Arrangements are now in hand to extend the trials to (.'ape Moreton (50 miles). His Grace Archbishop Kelly (says the ' Catholic Press ') ga\ e some wholesome advice at the opening of a new school at Druminoyne, when he said : ' Let Irishmen stand to the honor of their country, and give no countenance to those men who aie fond of drink and spend their tune m public houses. There are Irishmen who said they would give their blood for Ireland, and here he would borrow the words of a bishop, who said : " Gi\e me the man who will lay down his glass for Ireland, and he will do moie for her at home and abroad than the man who would go shouting and say, ' I will gi\e my blood ' " That man would ha\e a happy home), be happy himself, and he would lo\e his children, his wife and his family, and they would ha\e him as their ideal on eaith No mallei what. befell that man outside, he \, ould ha\e a happy home and a happy eternity. Those pooi fellows who did not piactise their and who weie Catlio'ics, mitiht be eompaied to a soie on a man's lace which was \u> ugiv, and pie\entcd him from going into society, but it did not endanger hie '

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