INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 32, 6 August 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The Rev. P. Sheehy, late of St. Vincent's Church, Redfern, has been appointed to St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.

The Very Rev. Father M. O'Brien, O.S.A , V.G., of the Vicariate Apostolic of Cooktown, has just returned from a 12 months' visit to Ireland and the Continent of Europe.

The, Rev. Father P. C. Cregan has been appointed Administrator of St Mary's Cathedral during the absence of his Eminence the Cardinal and Dean O'Haran in Rome. Father Cregan was Administrator of St. Mary's last year while his Eminence and the Dean were in Europe.

The Sydney ' Freeman's Journal ' notes the arrival in New South Wales on a health holiday of the Rev. Father Marnane, S.M., and Mr. John Barrett, of Christchurch. Mr. Barrett, remarks our contemporary, looks an almost youthful giant when it is remembered that as far back as the early sixties he rook a patriotic Irishman's part in the promotion of the Irish question on the Maoriland goldfields and elsewhere.

By his will the late Hon. J. T. Toohey, of Sydney, bequeathed £100 to each of the following charitable institutions .—Little Sisters of the Poor, Randwick ; Hospital Holy Child, Lewisham; St. Vincent's Home for Destitute Boys, Westmead; St. Joseph's Orphanage, Kincumber, Good Samaritan's Home' Manly , St. Vincent's Hospital ; Infant's Home, Ashfield ; St. Margaret's Matornity Home ; Waitara Foundling Hospital.

The following is a copy of a letter received by his Eminence Cardinal Moran from his Excellency Sir Harry Rawson, Governor of New South Wales, prior to the Cardinal's departure for Rome :— ' My Lord Cardinal, — Hearing that your Eminence is about to leave Sydney for Rome, I wish personally to express my sorrow at the cause which is taking you, and the hope that it may please Divine Providence to restore to health his Holiness the Pope, and that he may be spared to the Catholic Church and to the World, for all, no matter how much they may differ in forms of religion, must have a reverence and esteem for one who has for so long and so ably ruled o\er so large a proportion of the human race. I trust that on your arrival in Rome you may find that his Holiness, in spite of the great age he has attained, has yet years of life before him.'

His Eminence Cardinal Moran and Very Rev. Dean O'Haran joined the K.JI S Oroya at Melbourne en route for Rome The Caidinal learned of the Pope's death at one of the wayside stations, and he was deeply affected by the intelligence — a fact which immediately became apparent when the train arrhed at Spent et street, and he was welcomed by the Archbishop of Melbourne and Bishops Moore and Coibctt There were a number of prominent elergvnien and laymen at the station Tie bell of St Patrick's Cathedral tolled all the morning, and the Papal flag was displayed from the .tower The Cardinal dro\e with the Archbishop direct to the Port Melbourne pier, and boarded the outgoing \essel. The vessel, flying her Hag at half-mast, steamed out of the port a few minutes later In an inteniew, which was necessarily of the briefest descuption, Cardinal Moran said that the announcement of the death of the Pojie would make no change m tie arrangements wl-uh fie had made, and consequently he would continue his iourney to Rome. Refeinng more particularly to the death of Leo XIII , he said ' Great as is tie sense of the loss felt by Catholics at the death of the So\ereign Pontiff, still they have derived great coinfoit and consolation from the unncrsal manifestations of esteem and leverence shoun during his illness by those who did not owe him spiritual allegiance.'