INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 33, 13 August 1903, Page 81

INTERCOLONIAL

The Rev. Father O'Mahoney, of Launceston, obtained permission from the health officer to be quarantined with the small-pox patients in order to administer to the sufferers the consolations of religion.

Elgar's ' Dream of Gerontius ' has been in rehearsal for some time past at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, under the direction of Mr. J. A. Delany. The performance, it has just been decided, will not take place until the return of Cardinal Moran from Rome.

It is understood that the Rev. Father Magennis, 0.C.C., will succeed the Rev. Prior Kelly as head of the Carmelite Order in Melbourne. Prior Kelly has been head of the Order since Prior Butler left Melbourne some years ago, and he will leave Australia shortly.

A recent clerical visitor to Sydney is the Rev. Father Connelly, O S 8., who has come from London to see his mother, who is advanced in years. At present Father Connelly is staying with his uncle, the Hon. L. F. Heydon, MLC, at Mary's street, Hunter's Hill. Father Connelly is a brother of Mr. Frank Connelly, solicitor, Sydney.

The Very Rev. Dean Phelan, of Melbourne, is suffering from an attack of erysipelas. The disease developed with alarming rapidity, and it was found necessary to operate on the leg. Dr. Symcs performed the operation, and Dr. Mclnerney administered the chloroform, while Dr. A. L. Kenny assisted. The medical gentlemen are thoroughly satisfied with the progress made by the injured limb. They expect that in the course of a week the Very Rev. Dean will be in the first stages of convalescence.

The Rev. Father E S. Gleeson, of Newcastle, New South Wales, is seriously ill. Whilst making arrangements for the Requiem for the repose of the soul of the late Pope, he had a sudden attack, and on medical assistance arriving it was deemed necessary to remove him to the hospital, where an operation was performed. His condition was so serious that the last Sacraments were administered. According to latest accounts his condition is \eiy low, but hopes are entertained of his recovery.

The Archbishop of Adelaide, Dr O'Rcily, has issued to the clergy of Ins archdiocese the eighth report on its liabilities. He points out that in 1805 tiie responsibilities to the \anous creditors amounted to £.">(>, 968 During the eight years that ha\c elapsed no less than £42,289 have been paid off the capital account, while tho interest and other accruing charges ha\e been met in full. During the eight years the receipts, irrespective of the funds collected for the support of the fclcrgy and of Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods, ha\e amounted to £164,201, those of the past year being £21,322. Large new liabilities, however, ha\e been created for churches, schools, and institutions m all jvuts ol the State, and these now amount to £37,933. The net debt now stands at £52,631.

Mr Humphrey Page, once an Indian judge and now a well-known Tasmaman, lectiard in Hobait a tew weeks ago on his recent \isii to Koine. (loncluding,( l oncluding, he said : ' A few days alter the inteiuew with the Pope' l carried a letter lioni my lriend the Archbishop cf Calcutta to the Secretary of State, Caidn al Rampolk\ whose name is so much in men's minds vist now, a dis-line;uished-100l me man, conspicuous e\ery where by hs look of mipeiious stiengt!) He Knew my name, and said at once, " I ha\e good news for \ou ; the Holy Father has commissioned me to mfoim >on that le las conferred upon you the Cro^s of a Knight of St Gregory 1 congratulate you, M le Che\aher ' In due course the Pope's brief and the Cross were '-cut me, and I am proud of the distinction ' Mr. Page is a cemert.

A \enerable Brother of that de\otcd band known as the Coadjutor- brothers of the Society of Mary (says the 1 Freeman's Journal ') passed to his reward at the Villa Maria, Hit French mission house of the Mansl Fathers, «>ii Wednesday, July 22 Brother Florentine, erstwhile the companion of Blessed Peter Chanel in the Pacific Islands, was well 1-nown to the past geneiation in Mcanee, in the Ilawke's Cay district of New Zealand, where he Tendered yeoman service to the early missionaries of his Order The Lite Brothei vas in his (Mth \ear, and in his case it might, with a i<v t approach to tiuih, be said that he dies in harness Ie had scarcely known in h'.s lons hie a day's illness, 1 t on July 21 he complrined of feeling unwell In the rr< nnng he had taken his usual weekly turn at se\en o'clock at serving Mass in the Villa Maria' Church. He died at four o'clock on AVedne^day morning In his J3th year the late Brother Floientine joined the Society of Mary ; his religious life, therefore, represented the grand total of 80 years.