Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 07, Issue 45, 7 November 1907, Page 35

Intercolonial

The combined ages of seven members of the Queensland Legislative Council is 524 years.

- On Sunday, Oct. 20, his Lordship Bishop Higgins opened a new church at Dimboola, in the Horshara mission*

An exchange states, that one member' of the New South Wales Assembly, filled twenty-four pages of ' Hansard ' with his speech on the Address-in-Reply.

Mr. Daniel O'Connor has returned to Sydney, (says the ' Catholic Press '), after an absence, of two years and a half, in the United States and Europe. He is full of reminiscences of the great people he met. In Rome he had an audience with the Holy Father,

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new_ convent at Gulgong, took place on Sunday, Oct. 13, the ceremony being performed by his Lordship Bishop, Dunne. , The subscriptions promised and paid at- the ceremony, amounted to £400.

On Sunday evening, Oct, 13, Sister Mary Alphonsus died in St. Joseph's Convent, Mount-street, North Sydney, after a lingering illness of many months' duration. This Sister was a native of Dublin, but had passed the greater part of her life in Austialia, spending 3'l years in the convent.

The ceremony of blessing and laying, the foundation stone of a new church at Bemboka, was performed by his Grace Archbishop Kelly, on Oct. 6. The new Church iwill cost about £1000. The collection at the ceremony amounted to over £400.

In the presence of a very large assemblage on Sunday, Oct. 20, at Nathalia, his Lordship the Bishop of Sandhurst, Right Rev. Dr. Reville, 0.5.A., laid the foundation stone of the new presbytery. The sum of£7oo was received in cash and promises. ~

The contract price of the new convent at Camperdown, in the diocese of Ballarat, the foundation, stone^of which, was laid by his Lordship Bishop Higgins, on Sunday, Oct. 13, is £1386. The subscriptions at the ceremony amounted to £350. There was £222 in hand, and the promises totalled £312.

His Grace the most Rev. Dr. Kelly, Coadjutor-Arch-bishop of Sydney, opened arid blessed St. .Patrick's school-hall, Bega, on Sunday, Oct. 20, in the presence of a large number of residents of the town and district. The hall is of brick, and cost about £700. 'The Rev. J. Gunning, P.P., announced that the church debt amounted to £720. The sum of £206 was handed in at the close of the meeting towards the building fund. His G-race delivered an address on Education.

Miss Marie Narelle is now fully restored to health, and after giving concerts in various parts of New South Wales, she will leave for England, with the intention of making a tour the United Kingdom. Miss Narelle will probably sing in London at the' Irish National concert on^St. Patrick's Day. Her tour of the United Kingdom will extend into August, when she -will leave for America, where her stay will be, so far as can be judged at present, indefinite.

His Eminence Cardinal Moran, on Sunday, Oct. 20, opened the home for blind children, and the additions to St. Anne's Orphanage, Liverpool. He blessed the foundation stone about 12 months ago. Ajt present there are 78 children in the institution, which is solely for females. With the additions the Sisters of Charity hope to -..accommodate more orphans, and to care for about thirty blind- The work of ministration, to the blind has been taken up by the nuns, at the suggestion of his Eminence the Cardinal.

A commencement was made on Oct. 21. (says the ' Advocate I) with the erection at Elsternwick, between the Rosstown railway, and the Brighton line, towards Garden Vale Sation, of the second college for Catholics priests in Australia ; the first being that at Manly, Sydney, The Elsternwick edifice is to be called the Richard O'Neill College, as the funds for its construction are being provided by Miss O'Neill, out of the estate of her deceased father. The site is elevated, commanding a fine view of the Bay, and the College itself, judging by the plans, will be a great ornament to the landscape. The architecture is Romanesque, a blending of some of the best points of the Gothic and most of the modern styles executed an red brick, with cement ornamentation.