INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 20 August 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The amount subscribed towards the proposed erection of a bell in the tower of St. Patrick's Church, Parramatta, as a memorial to the late Monsignor Rigney now totals £150. The bell is to be a tenor, weighing 15 tons, and arrangements are being made to place the order in the hands of a leading London firm, the makers of the bells at St. Mary's Cathedral.

When Michael Davitt visited Victoria in 1895 he was hospitably entertained by Dr. Burke-Gafiney, a fellow of the Royal Irish College of Surgeons. The doctor, who is very popular amongst all classes of the Bendigo district, has for some weeks been suffering from pneumonia, but is now out of danger. He has just been elected president of the Bendigo Gold District Hospital.

Fresh evidence of the up-to-date character of our conventual establishments i(writes a Melbourne correspondent) has been aftorded 'by the announcement of a 4 local Oxford centre ' at Genezzano F. C. J. Convent (Kew). The ' Argus ' devoted half a column to this advance movement on the part of Rev. Mother Superior Stock.

The Bishop of Bendigo (Right Rev. Dr. Reville) has sent along to his cathedral-church a magnificent crucifix. The base contains views in mosaics of the Coliseum, St. Peter's, pillars of the Forum, and St. Paul's, Rome. The arms of the cross are embellished with miniatures of the chief ecclesiastical edifices of the Eternal City. The figure of Our Lord is carved in fine ivory. The totai height is about three feet.

The popular and scholarly parish priest of St. Kilda West, Rev. William Ganly, has (says the Melbourne correspondent of the ' Freeman's Journal ') just been honored by the Irish Historical, Archaeological, and Antiquarian Society, Ireland, as an appreciation of his efforts to extend the study of Gaelic literature. His lecture on Irish literature and art, together with his panegyric of St. in Irish, attracted widespread attention not only in Australia, but also in Ireland and America. By a unanimous vote, the rev. gentleman has been enrolled a member of the 1.11.A.A.5. Father Ganly has received several congratulatory messages on his well-merited honor.

The Very Rev. Dean Slattery, P.P., of Newtown, after a health tour in Japan and the United States, arrived much improved in health in his native land on June 15 In a letter to a friend in Sydney the popular Dean states that he was staying at the time of writing with his brother, Mr, Edmund Slattery, of Tralee, but thereafter he would be the guest of his class-iellow, Bishop Coffey. Forty years ago Dean Slattery left the land in which he is now making a short and enjoyable; sojourn. The Rev Father Gleeson, who was taken suddenly ill recently and conveyed to the hospital, where an operation was performed, is now (writes a Newcastle correspondent) out of immediate danger, and is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. The rev and much-iespected administrator is still an inmate of the Newcastle Hospital Quite a stream of visitors ha\e called at the presbytery, inquiring after the popular priest, to' express sympathy with him in his illness Among those who called were Dr Stretch (Anglican Dean of Newcastle), Rev. F. J. Perkins , (of, the Anglican Deanery), Rev. A. A Yeates (of St. John's Church of England.

The death is reported of the Rev. Dr. Patterson, of Southport, archdiocese of Brisbane Father Patterson belonged to the aichdiocese of Dublin, and was up to about ten years ago, when he sought a change of climate in Australia, amongst the best known of its priests He was a member of a highly-respected and wealthy family, and had a brilliant course in the Irish College, Rome, where he counted amongst fellow-alumni his Grace Aichbishop Dunne During his term at the popular seaside parish, where he died, Dr. Patterson did much for the advancement of leligion, and deep legret is expressed on all sides that he did nfit li\e to witness the dedication of the handsome church which, through his zeal and the generosity of his parishioners, had just been completed On account of his genial manners, deep learning, and ready wit, the deceased priest was much sought and his company^ enjoyed by many of the professional men of Brisbane who spent part oi the summer months in Southport. Otherwise Dr. Patterson led almost the lite of a recluse As he was used to say i.imself, he was preparing for death and he loved to be alonqr with his books. His pretty little residence was a perfect museum of art and curios brought from Rome and Ireland.