Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 18, 2 May 1907, Page 35

Intercolonial

A ■' record ' cargo of fruit for- London left Hobart on A^ril 12, nearly 125,000 cases of apples being shipped. '' The great ecclesiastical College ol St. Patrick's" at Mainly has. now, we- learn, seventy-nine students in residence, "and, five or six others preparing to enter. \. Experts say (remarks the Sydney i Freeman's Journal '0 that Master •M. Manning, of ■ St. , Benedict's school, who put up a world s record* high jump (under • sixteen) at St. PatricK's Day sports, coald easily have added three, inches to his jump, of . live .feet; but his father did not desire the lad to* further exert himself. Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, gave an enthusiastic - farewell to the Rev. Father M. Morns, when- he left that city for Sydney to join the- Rev. Father Daniel Leahy, of !K oorawatha, both -of whom have left * for Europe. _They intend visiting Ireland. Father Morris' health has not been satisfactory of late; and his -people hope that he will return to" them restored to his- usual vigor. Consternation was caused in a Canterbury (Sydney) household the other day, when the family ' plant ' of cash and jewellery beneath the bedroom floor, "was found to have been looted.. The police were, called jn, and the robbery was subsequently sheeted home to rats, wliich had removed the hordo to their lair. All the missing property was recovered, as in the case of the famous jackdaw of Rheims. n . • i At St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, on Sunlay, April 14, his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne ordained to the priesthood Rev. Thos. Bride, of North Fitzroy. Father Fride commenced his studies in the Christian Brothers' College, East Melbourne, and, after matriculating, went to St. Xavier's College, Kew, where •he spent some years. His course for the priesthood was commenced at St. Patrick's College, Manly, some six years ago, and he was ordained deacon at the end of last year. - At the annual district meeting of "the H.A.C.B. Society of Victoria, the officers reported that the value of the funds of the distract and branches was as follows :— District funeral fund, £16^171 7s Id ; district ladies' funeral fund, £611 9s 2d ; district juvenile funeral fund, £5 lls ; district management fund, £276 15s 5d ; branch sick funds, £31,423 7s Rd ; branch management fund, £2153 12s 5d ; branch benevolent fund. £828 Is 4d; branch other funds, £572 7s r ,d. Total, £52,042 lls 9d, showing .an increase of £1901 7s 7 d for the year. Victoria (writes a Melbourne correspondent) has lost a liberal-minded-- statesman by the death of Sir Henry Cutbbert, M.L.C. He was one who never allowed religious -or racial leanings to interfere with his public dut- - ies, and assisted all good works by his presence .and purse. He was born an Roscommon County, Ireland, in 1829. - He was educated at the Drogheda Grammar school. In 1852 he became an attorney of the Court of Queen's Bench, Common, Pleas, and Excheauer, and a solicitor of the Irish Court of Chancery. Shortly afterwards he left for Australia, and landed in Melbourne in 1854. The Rev. Father" M. A. Flemming, private secretary to his Grace the Coadjutor-Archbishop sof Sydney for some years, has been appointed to the charge of Rydalmere and to the chaplaincy of the Benedictine Nuns at Subdaco. The Rev. Father T. J. K»in-s\ who spent about a year in the diocese of Armidale, and was for the last seven months at Tenterfield, has returned to Sydney, "having been appointed to St. Benedict's ,to replace Fathor Flemming. The Rev. Father P. J. Baugh has gone to ,the charge of Cooma during the absence of Father J." J. N orris, P.P., who is about to leave on a well-earned holiday to Europe. ,Thi? blessing of the new cathedral at Lismore, which was originally fixed for Pentecost Sunday, has .been retarded by an 'abnormal rainfall (thirty inches in" three months), and a postponement has been made to Sunday, August 15, when a brilliant function and a great attendance may be expected. Most of the Australian Archbishops and Bishops (says the ' Freeman ') 'have expressed their intention of beina; present. This diocese is advancing by leaps and bounds not only by .industrial development, but in the provision for relieidn ana education. At two of the newest points— Bangalow and Mullumibimiby— new convent schools are in course of erection, and will soon be in possession of the Presentation Nuns.