INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 43, 27 October 1904, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

At Ihe annual meeting of Lewisham Hospital (Sydney) a donation of £1000 was announced as coming fiom t/ho truatc-es 1 of an estate through Mr. Makmson, solicitor. It is understood that tins is from the estate of Lady Macleay, and Unit, £2000 has been allotted, to St. Vincents Hospitql fiom the same estate. The Very Rev Father T O'Connor, ot Port Pine, celebrated his silver iirbilee tho other day, and was presented with an au-urcss and a silver chalice by the clergy of the dnwese of Port Augusta. The presentation was made by the Bishop, the Kight Key. Dr. Maher. Mr. Need ham, tlic FremantJe (W.A.) Labor memter, is only a few years in Australia He got a job in the railway and became vice-president of the Labor Council at Frcmantlc. The Glasgow papers record the rejoicing of his friends, especially in Rentrew, where he was well known in Catholic and teetotal circles, and ac,ted as correspondent of the Glasgow ' Observer.' A representative meeting was held recently in Sydney for tho purpose of raising funds to erect a public memorial to the late Veiy Rev. Father Lc Rennet el, the Hon. B. R. Wise, M.L.C., presiding. Speeches, eulogistic of t.ho iovable character o.f the deccasad priest, were made by the chairman, Br-hop Doyle, Sir William Manning, Dr Warren, Major Frechill, and others, and a sum of £160 was subscribed The chairman said he hoped tnat at least £1000 would be raised for a permanent memorial Seven nuns of the Order of St. Theresa have arrived at New Noicia (W A.) On arrival the Sistois weie received with great honor. The Sisters will have charge of tlic aboriginal and ollur children of the mission r l he Lord Abbot, fiom the momrnt ot his arrival, saw the gioat need of suitable fenvale education. The white settlers, widely spread over Victonaai Plains, were, until recently, without schools of any Kind, except 'one that tiheße.ncdietme Fathers established some years ago, about three miles from New Norcia, but only a lew ot the people were able to a\ ail ot it ant most of the settlers were not in a position to scntl ttticir children to Perth, or en-age private teachers, their families p/ew up without a smg'e member being able to read or write. At St. Patrick's Church, Sydney, en Sunday evening, October !), his Loidf-lup Bishop Lm'han, of Auckland, was the pieache-r. In the course of his sermon 112 paid a tribute to the nienioi> ot the late Father Le Kcmotel He wished, he said, to express his tribute of respect to the memory of ' tins renowned priest, whose namo was not cenfned to Australia, but who wan we'l Known thioughout New Zealand The many kindnesses he did me and my clergy i shall never forget. 'i he respejLt in which he was held by all clashes of ti.e community amply demonstrated the gieatnrss and goodness 01 the late Father's lile-work, and we "who aieleft now know how much we 1111 -.s him. But I ask you to perpetuate his memory by loyally supporting those who are endeavoring to worthily succeed him.' The annual meeting of Lewisham Hospital (Sydney) wa-> tJuwcl with all the elements of success. '1 ru State Governor (Sir Harry Rawscn) was on arrival received by tho lle.v. Mother Superior of the Sut.is of the Little Company ot Mary and the medic? 1 stall. Over £ijfr(J was subscribed, including a bc^ue.t of £1000 from the estate of the late Lady MaMeay His Eminence Cardinal Aloi.ni, in welcoming the Governor, said tin at of £ It), <M)o on I*2 hospital since its foundation, there was a debt of £4000 remaining, and he hoped before that mooting was dissolved that a considerable pa. t> ot the debt would be paid away. He thought fiom the nun near in which the public supported the nospital they recognised in the fullest way tac noble work of the Sisters and of the medical start m charge He might mention that he had read that day in a newspaper 'irom Central India, where the plague was ra.|>i!^, that the patients refused to take their medicine 111 the belief it was poison, until the Sisters took charge of that public hospital, when the happiest result* acciued Such a day as this was not one for mokinpi a speech On the part of the devoted Sisters, ho thanked his Excellency for honoring them with his presence. _______»——.