INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 22 October 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

It is expected that his Eminence Cardinal Moran will teach Sydney about the end of next month, when it is proposed to tender him a reception. The Archbishop of Melbourne (Most Rev. Dr. Carr) has sent a cheque for £10 to the fund for the erection of a Bishop's palace at Bathurst. Governor J General Lord Tennyson will leave the Commonwealth on December 10 ; and his successor (Lord Northcote) leaves England on the 18th of the same month. Lord Richaid Nevill will remain in Australia as private secretary to the new Governor-General. The Rev. Father Mclnerney, 0.P., who succeeds the Rev. Father Larkin, who was recently called by his Order to Ireland, as Prior of St. Dominic's Convent, North Adelaide, has arrived from Ireland. The lectures which the Rev. Father Robinson is giving in Dublin have a practical purpose in benefiting the funds of the Camberwell parish (Melbourne), over which the rev. gentleman presides. A pleasant reunion of churches (says the Sydney • Freeman's Journal ') is reported from Richmond, where the ministerial golden jubilee of the Rev. Dr. Cameron (late Presbyterian Moderator) was celebrated ; the heads of all denominations in the district (including Father M. O'Brien) joining in the felicitations with speeches. Amongst the passengers by the ' Omrah,' which left Melbourne for Europe on September 29 (says the ' Tribune), were the following clerical students, who proceed to the Eternal City to complete their course of study for the priesthood :— Mr. Morkane (Dunedin, N.Z.), Mr. Lonergan Rev. P. E. Ellis, Mr. E. Tehan, and Mr. Meyer (Bendigo), Mr. O'Shaughnessy and Mr. Vaughan (Melbourne). The two last-named gentlemen are well-known in thi& city. Mr. O'Shaughnessy matriculated from Xavier College, Kew, in 1901. Mr. Vaughan matriculated from the Christian Brothers' College, East Melbourne, in 1897, and passed honors examination in 1898. A large number of friends, cleric and laic, assembled at the boat to wish the young students Godspeed. The following appeared in a recent issue of) the Launceston ' Daily Telegraph ' :— The Rev. John O'Mahony who was released from quarantine on Friday last, celebrated the 11 o'clock Mass in the Church of the Apostles on Sunday. Monsignor Beechinor preached. After Mass a large body of the congregation assembled in the vestry, when Father O'Mahony was welcomed back by Messrs R. J. Meyers, P. J. Matthews, Will Tynan, J. V. Sullivan, C. Metz, J. J. Madden, R. Driscoll, M. Curtin, and others, representing the St. Patrick's Day Association, St. Patrick's Feast Committee, St. Patrick's and St. Ita's branches of the Hibernian A.C.B. Society, St Vincent de Paul Society, Confraternity of the Sacred Heart Society, and the congregation of the Church of the Apostles. The gentlemen who spoke on behalf of the societies named made eloquent reference to the high esteem and veneration in which Father O'Mahony was held, not only by the members of his own Church, but by the public generally, and paid high tribute to his sterling character as a priest and a man. Father O'Mahony, in the course of a brief roply, said he had only done his duty in attending to the smallpox patients at the quarantine station. The institute of the Blessed Virgin, which has so many flourishing houses in the Commonwealth, not to speak of those in Great Britain and the Continent (says the ' Freeman's Journal ') celebrated the golden iubilee of the Rev. Mother Provincial Barry at Mary's Mount Loreto Abbey, Ballarat, recently, by a series of musical and dramatic performances of a very high character. Past pupils from every part of the State joined in the festivities, and 'visitors, lay and clerical, assembled to do honor to a valiant woman under whiose fostering care the Institute has flourished, not only in this State, but in New South Wales and Western Australia. There are 100 in community. A handsome silver casket, containing 300 sovereigns was presented to the Rev. Mother by the Bishop, Right Rev. Dr. Mooxe. The offering was from his Lordship, the present and past pupils, and friends of the recipient. Dean Hegarty replied on behalf of the worthy Provincial. There was a unique ceremony — the crowning of the venerable religieu&e, at which the Bishop presided. ___________«___——