INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 35, 1 September 1904, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The Right Rev. Dr. Doyle, Bishop of Lismore, is under medical treatment in a private hospital in Brisbane. The latest report is that he is doing fairly well.

On Sunday, October 2, St. Mary's Church, Ipswich, Queensland, will be dedicated and opened by the Cardi-nal-Archbishop of Sydney, assisted by seven other prelates.

The R,ev. P. Shore, who nas been stationed at Wentworth for a considerable time, has been appointed to the headquarters of the diocese of Wilcannia at Broken Hill.

The toew memorial presbytery erected by parishioners in memory of the late Rev. P. B. Murphy, Parramattia,, is nearly ready for opening. The building will cost about £1200, half the amount being now in hand.

His Grace tihe Archbishop of Melbourne has made the following clerical changes in the archdiocese : Rev. Father T. Quinn, from Queenscliff, to the charge of the newly-formed parish of Mentone ; Rev. Father J. Cusack, from Geelong to Queenscliff ; Rev. Father J. Kenny, from Essendon to Geelong ; Rev. Father J. Cahill, to Essendon ; and Rev. Father C. Sheahan, from Coburg to West Melbourne.

His Grace the Archbis,hop of Melbourne a few Sundays ago blessed and opened an extensive addition to the St. Joseph's Foundling Home, Broadmeadows. The institution, which is being conducted with conspicuous success by the Sisters of St. Joseph, is taxed to its full capacity in affording shelter to a large numiber of mothers and their babes. Speeches setting forth the claims of St. Joseph's Home to the moral and material suipport of the charitable we're made by his Grace the Archbishop and others.

Tamworth was en fete the other day when Mother Mary; Regis celebrated the fiftieth year of her profession, of which more than 25 years have been spent within the walls of the local Dominican Convent. The qveint aroused the greatest enthusiasm amongst all classes in Tamworth, where the name of Mother Mary Regi;s is held in love and veneration. Mother Mary Regis is in her 72nd year, having been born in Watexford in 1832. She became a nun on August 4, 1854. The celebration took the form of a garden party.

In Bendigo gold has been found at the deepest depth yet known, viz.^ 4015 feet. The Victoria Quartz Mine is working at the greatest deptih yet attained in Australia, and it is probably the deepest gold mine in the world. Below the east crosscut, at 37Q0 feet, a centre win?e is being sunk. It is 1 down 315 feet, oi a total deoth from the surface of 4015 feet. For some time past the ground has consisted of hard sandstone, but a spur four inches wide has been met coming in fromi the west, and in this several colors of gold ha^e been seen.

The people of the Campbelltown Mission, Tasmania, are about to erect a memorial to their recently-deceas-ed pastor. A committee has been formed of members of the different congregations throughout the mission. It is proposed that the people of J^ampbelltown will place a stained-glass window in St. Michael's Church, tjhe 'people of Mathinna will erect a convent wittfi a memorial stone suitably inscribed, and the people of the other districts will place a simple cut-stone monument over his grave in the Campbelltown Cemetery.

In the course of an address at Golden Grove the other day, bis Emincvnee Cardinal Morati, dwelling on the official lestrictions placed on Catholic worship in the early days of the colony, said that nowadays Catholics had scarcely any difficulty to contend against. They had, of course, that system of lying and calumny which so persistently assailed everything connected with the Catholic Church. But they were so accustomed to that that it did not affect them in the least. They did not even dream of replying to those calumnies. These things nowadays were a mere matter of party and political intrigue*- and unceasing enmity to everything Catholic tihat urged them on in this course. But, he held, independently of all this they were comparatively free compared with the condition of those who came from Ireland some fifty years ago. In those early days the persons who ruled the dastinies of Australia seemed intent on perpetuating the ages of barbarism and the ages of penal laws which so long preyed on the energies anld devotedness of so many of their citizens in former times. Turougfo the energy of their people and the undying devotion of the pioneers of the faith in this country those fetters had been flung aside and the whole world might never bring back those days. They had gone for ever, never to return, and migjht be consigned to oblivion, at least looking to the futtire of Australia.