Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 1 November 1906, Page 35

Intercolonial

+h \ -i* oc ? as clonc 10n of Archbishop Kelly's -feast day the children .of .. St. Benedict's School, Sydney, -present ' pUte " -' an address -and',a pieced " silver . -The 'new convent buildings -at' . Kyneton (Vie V now being erected, involve an' expenditure of. aboit £5000 - n wH he P T e^ The wboleoJ the design will be completed as funds -are provided. \ , .- nf" \w E^nn u J Uvan >- 'ex-Minister of Public WorksnH* n South-Wales was presented the- ofaeir. day with an address -and purse- of £1050 -by 'his many friends and admirers. ." ' ~" s " ' in- ?o^fn Gll^ ke 'f the -, A . n S lican Archbishop of; Melbourne, in laying. the foundation stone of "the Trinity Grammar School at-Kew the other? .flay, said: ' The Roman Cathohcs Relieved in education, and - showed their beOne -of Sydney's -oldest, residents, Mr. William Byrne, ■ died at his home, Princes street, on Saturday, October 13, at the age. of- 98 - years, The deceased's parents arrived m. Sydney in the fateful year of" '1)8, and the late Mr. Byrne was born in 1808. v . 'When opening a floral" fete at St." Mary's, Hall, West Melbourne, the other- day, the Right Rev. Mer M'Kenna, VG. - (Geelong), referred to the remarkable generosity of the people of that parish, who had paid no less a sum- than £32,000 :; o ff' the church debt, leaving only £8000 to be liquidated. " ~ . . His Eminence Cardinal uMoran " laid , the foundation stone of a new church at Granville on Sunday -October lj. Ihe new church will seat a .congregation of about - 400 The Rev. Father Grace, pastor of the «n^n I<lt ' statetl tha t -the total cost would 'be about £850. Sir 'Philip Fysh , and Lady Fysh - celebrated - their golden wedding -at Hobart a few Sun-days ago. Thirtyfive descendants, four of whom journeyed from England for the occasion, sat down to the wedding breakfast The presents were numerous. Congratulatory messages were received from England and all parts 4>f the Com- . monwealth. l - - • H u? Gr . ace the Archbishop of Melbourne in his admirable -address on the Tempe slanders on'- Sunday evening, October 14, after reading Government Inspector s report on the- South Melbourne Orphanage said : I have, asked the Government before, and I now repeat the request, that the Government ' should send ' its ~ inspectors to .examine- all our -Catholic schools I make ihis-^request on my own behalf and on behalf of the other Catholics of Victoria. _.''■• Sir John Quick, M.L.A., delivered an "address on Sunday October 14, at JBendigo, in which he* emphasised the importance of private charity. Some people he said, thought it should be the duty, of. the- Government to provide for the poor. '-That'*was-a very miserable kind of charity, and- he hoped -that a .poor rate would never be necessary in that country The Government should assist, but it -was the duty of every citizen to remember his private obligations Aus_tralia might be regarded as one of the most charit-ably-disposed countries in the world. There .were 304 hospitals throughout Australia, and of these "53 were in Victoria. No executive actr of the Deacon Government has -.(writes- the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Freeman's Journal-) given so much "and such general satisfaction here as the elevation of the Hon Henry Bourne Higgins, . to the High Court Bench; Mr. Henry Bournes Higgins, K.C.r was born in Newtownards, Ireland, and arrived in Melbourne as a youth in 1870 His education commenced in Dublin, and was complete ed at Melbourne^ University, where he gained' scholarships in languages, logic, history, political economy," and Shakespeare. Always taking an interest' in- politics in a philosophical spirit, his first active campaign was in 1893, when he was returned for Geelone: " Mr Higgins was elected to the Federal Convention, and when the first Federal election was held in" 1001 he was returned for Northern Melbourne.' At the" second election "he was again successful, and when Mr J C Watson formed his Labor .Ministry in 1904 Mr ' Hip-1 gins was appointed Attorney-General. He has been a ■ member of the. University Council since 1887 and in 1904 founded a scholarship for poetry at the Melbourne University. Mr. Hig-gms is, of course/ - one of the leaders of the Equity Bar. _