INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 23, 8 June 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The sil,Ver jubilee of St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney, is to be celebrated this year. Sir John Madden heads the list of the ' ten best citizens of Victoria,' in the Melbourne ' Herald ' plebiscite. Three other Irishmen, Archbishop Carr, Sir Thomas Fit/.gerald, and Mr. E. G. Fitzgibbon, are also high up on the list. Mr. D. O'Connor, ex-M.L.A. of Sydney, intends going to London shortly to publish his autobiography, upon which he has been at work for sonic time. A meeting of his political friends is to be held in Sydney sboitly. The Bishop of Perth, af^er reading the pronouncement of the Pope on the Irish movement, sent his Holiness the following cable of grateful appreciation : 'Australian Irishmen thank your Holiness for receiving Ireland's representative— Redmond— and for sympathising and blessing his Party's efforts in their struggles for Faith and Fatherland. A sum of £51(1 has been recehed towards the memorial in honor of the late Very Rev. Father Le Rennetel, of Sydney. It is proposed to erect a monument in the French Gothic style. The cross will be 20 feet high from the top of the Milestone kerbing. The si/c of the lot is 18 feet by 12 feet, and it will be enclosed with a bluestone pyramid on bluestone base, with brick a_nd cement foundations. The cross will be \erv devotional in character of distinctly French Catholic treatment. The inscription is in lead letters, and will be cut in the die. It is expected the monument will be comlpletea nine months hence. One of the most popular priests in the archdiocese of Brisbane is the Rev. Father Michael Morris, the pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Fortitude Valley. His popularity was strongly attested on May 22 ((he occasion of the silver jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood), wheln all the priests of the city and others from the country assembled at St. Patrick's Presbytery to offer him their united congratulations on the happy event. Father Morris was made the recipient of many tokens of esteem from the members of his congregation, and the 700 children attending St. Patiick's School tendered him a jubilee concert. Acti'.e preparations (says the ' Freeman's Journal ') are being made by priests and people to gi\e the new ruler of the Ballarat diocese, Right Rev. Dr Thggins, an enthusiastic welcome to his cathedral city on June 7. Addresses of welcome will be presented to his Lordship, and nothing will be left undone to impress on the Richt Rev Prelate the fact that he comes to a pnesthooQ and a people full of gratitude to the ' (liver of all good gifts ' for sending them a chief pastor so eminently fitted for the high position. If the episcopal throne sheds lustre on its occupant, it can also be said in this case that the occupant will shed lustre on the thrcne The Re\ Father Joergcnsen, of Port Lincoln, in the archdiocese of Adelaide, whose 60th birthday was xecently celebrated with much enthusiasm by his parishioners, is a native of Copenhagen After passing through the University in that city he sailed for Australia, in order to enter into a chemist's business in Gawler with a fellow-counti vman At the age of thirty he was received into the CHirch by the late Father Muriay. Soon after this he proceeded to Sovenhill College to study for the priesthood. Early in 1878, in company with the Very Re\ J. IT Norton, VG of Port Augusta diocese, an^l the late Father Edmund O'Brien, of Manoora, he sailed for li eland where he enteied St. Kieran's College, Killuinv. \fter a time lie proceeded to Rome and entered the Propaganda College, and was orrlainorl priest jn 1 S 2 . and came out to Australia in the following year In addition to his many other accomplishments Father Joergensen sneaks fluently se\en languages-. The Brisbane correspondent of the ' Catholic Press ' reports tie death of the Rev. Father .Tames J Tloran, the esteemed pastor of the Warwick parish, who passed away peacefully on May 22, at St. Mary's Presbytery, after a very brief illness The news of the demise of this prominent priest came as a shock to the Catholic community and to his many friends outside it The lale Father IToian was born at Oermanstown, County Kildare, Ireland, on January 1, IBilfi ITe was educated first at St. Laurence O'Toole's Seminary in Dublin, and made his final studies for the priesthood in France For many years after his arrival in Brisbane "he acted a^; secretary to his uncle, the Right Rev !?r .Tamos O'Quinn, first Bishop r>f Biis'bane, with whom he travelled on missionary tours throughout the length and breadth of Oueenslnnd TTe was for a time in charge of St. Pal rick's Church, Valley, and in the year 187R was aopointed to the charge of the important parish of Warwick.