INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 28, 13 July 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The Corpus Christi celebration at Manly this year was e\en more successful than that of 1901. No less thap 25,000 were taken over by nine steamers, the'large concourse of people being from all p^rts of Sydney and suburbs. A movement is on foot by the Bathurst ex-students of St. Mary's College to erect a suitable memorial in the cemetery to the late venerable Mother Mary Ignatius Croke, the foundress of the Order of Mercy in the West. Two beautiful stained glass memorial windows have recently been presented to St. George's Church, Carlton, by Messrs. George and Lancelot levers, in memory of their father and mother, the late Councillor William and Mary Harrison levers. There was a large gathering on Sunday, June 18, at the oon\ent schoolroom, Tumut, for the purpose of presenting the Very Rev. Father O'Dwycr, parish priest of Tumut, with a purse of sovereigns. Father O'Dwyer has been ill for a considerable time, and proposes to xalue a holiday trip. Roy. W. Gannon, S.J., of Riverview College, Sydney* h a s left for Ireland, wliere he will resume his studies for the priesthood. The rev. gentlema,n, who has beea for the past tahree years a Master at Ri\erview, previously labored in a similar capacity at Kew College, Melbourne. His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Bathurst, is now \isiting different Darts of his diocese, preparatory to proceeding to Rome and Ireland early nevt >ear. The Bishop of Armidale (Right Rev. Dr. O'Connor) and the Re\. Father J. Dunne, of Camp/belltown, will prcttalbly accompany his Lordship. The Victorian Go\ eminent Statist, Mr. M'Lean, estimates the population of the Commonwealth, on March 31, exclusive of full-bioodcd aborigines, at '2,101,7'K3 males, l,8 1 )K,152 females , total. 3,yi)y,!};js. He rdturns Victoria as containing 60-1, r )S 7 males, and 695 <)34 females (totul 1,310,5:30), and New South Wale's 7wGfl4a males, and fiB!>, 181 females (total I,l«o,(i33). The business of Messrs Meagher and Co. has been converted into a limited company. It has been registered with a capital of £50,000, and will trade as John Meaghar and Co, Limited. The go\ern.ing director is the I Ton .John Meagher, ana the directois iaie Mqs-rrs P Meagher (Temora), M. Meagher (Bathuist), J P. Meagher (West Wyalong), and M. J. Meagher (Sydney). The portfolios of the Commonwealth Ministry ha\e been allotted as follow :— Premier and Minister of Internal AfUrrs, Mr. IXiakin (Victoria) 1 ; Attorney-General, lion J a Isaacs (Victoria) ; Customs., Sir W. J Lyne (Xew South Wales) , Treasurer, Sir John Forrest (Westr.iha) ; Postinaster-Gereral, Mr. A. Chapman (New South Wales) , Defence, Senator T. Playford (South Australia) , Hiomc Aflair.s, Hon. L. K. Groom ( Queen. sl;Viwl) Vice-President of the Executive, lion T' T Ewing (New South Wales , Honorary Minister, Senator J. 11. Keating (Ta r mania). The Vciy Rev. Father M. J. Buckley, of Ju-nee, celebrated his sacerdotal siher uibilce on Sunday, June 25 amidst great leioicings on the part of people of other denomina'tiioms, as well as his own people. lli<>h Mass was celebrated fnr the first time in St. Joseph's Church the preacher being the Very Rev Father M Slattery' V.G., who n/preseuted Bishop Gallagher. The banquet was afterwards 'held in the .schoolroom, at which Father Buckley \va, presented with a purse containing'] 50 so\ereifins on behalf of the Catholic* of the district and his Protestant friends His Grace Archbishop Murphy (says the ITobart 'Mercury,' June 17) celebrates his i)Oth birlilidav tomoirow (Waterloo Day), and will, doubtless receive congratulations from all parts of the world. For exactly -H) years his Grace has labosed in oui midst i-arning here as elsewhere golden encomiums from all Ihose with whom he has been brought in contact. Tt is f.7 years since he entered the priesthood, ami 58 since h e performed the funeral obsequies of the great Liberator Daniel O'Connell, and commenced a twenty years' mission in India, which was attended with remarkable success. It is 17 years since his Grace celebrated the golden jubilee of his priesthood, when Hobart was raised by the Pope to the dignity of an archiepisenpal Se e . the pallium beine: conferred upon him in the following year, and finally, it is nearly nine years Since the fiftieth anniversary of the episcopal consecration of his Grace was coldbratod in all the churches of the land We dpfire to be included among tho,se who congratulate his Grace on the attainment of his 90th year.