Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 14 November 1907, Page 35

Intercolonial

A new Cathedral is to be' built in Geraldton, which is estimated to cost £10,000, £2,000 of "which is in hand.

A girl from Bega- has been appointed. AssistantCouncil Clerk at Lismore. Another invasion of mere man's domain ! A new "convent was blessed and opened at Carcoar, on October 25, by the Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Bishop ol Batiiurst. His Eminence Cardinal Moran laid the foundation stone of a new presbytery at Botany on October 27. The cost of the building will be over £800, and the collection at the ceremony amounted to £310. The Rev. Father Lane, who has for a considerable period been at Mount Morgan, has been appointed to Longreach. The Rev. Father Carroll, S.J., will take charge at Mount Morgan. , Father O'Farrell, 0.P., of North Adelaide, had his thigh set in St. Vincent's -Hospital, Sydney, by Dr. Q W. McCarthy, under .whose care. he is. He is progressing - favourably considering the amount of pain and' fatigue caused by the long train journey from Molong to Sydney t On Sunday, October 27, the new church, just completed at Cobar, at a cost of over £4,000, was blessed and opened by his Grate Archbishop Kelly, assisted by the ;Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Bishop, of Wilcannia, and the Right Rev. Dr. Gallagjher, Bishop of Goulburn. s A sum of over £300 was collected at tlie ceremony. The Golden Jubilee of the St. Vincent's Hospital Victoria-street, Darlinghurst, will be celebrated onvTuesday, November 19th. Special preparations have been made to make the ceremony one which' will marie, in a fitting manner*, the "noble work so well and so " admirably carried on toy the devoted Sisters of Charity in the Hospital. - ' The Carmelite Fathers have for some time contemplated 'building a monastery in the Port Adelaide parish, of which they have charge. They have however, changed this intention, and have purchased a house and land comprising^two acres, in Torrens-road, near their present lesidence in Alberton. The following priests for Australian dioceses arrived the other day in Melbourne : — Rev. M. Keenan, Rev. Fathers Gibbons and M'Mahbn (Melbourne), Rev. J. Duggan (Sandhurst), Rev. Denis Mitchell, O.SS.R.(Waratah), Rev. T. Brown, C.SS.R., Rev. Fathers Hen-eg-han, O'Neil, and Connolly (Ballarat), Rev. Fathers Ryan and M'Loughlin (Sale),- Rev. Fathers" O' Sullivan, and Bonnar (Goulburn), Rev Father O'Brien (Bathurst). The provincial of the Irish and Australian province of the Society of Jesus (Veryjßev. J. S. Conmee) states that the. Rev. Wm. Kelly, S. J., the brilliant scholar and lecturer, so well known in Melbourne and -Sydney, though very old. and feeble, is still as" vigorous as ever -in mind. He resides at the house of studies and spiritual exercises, Milltown Park, Dublin. -' At the conclusion of Mass at Dapto on Sunday, Oct. 27 tfije Rev. Father Hayden was presented by ihe parishoners with a" purse of sovereigns, the occasion fcjeihg the~sixteenth anniversary of~his ordination to the. priesthood. The presentation was made by Mrs. W. H. Cook. Reference was made to the popularity of Father Hayden amongst all classes of the- community," and to his successful work in the parish as evidenced in the group of. buildings on Convent' Hill. Mother Mary Angela, of -the Convent of Mercy, Mount Gambief, S.A., died on Oct.,. 4. Mother - Angela, was born in Buenos' Aires, South America, on May 24, ,1854. She entered the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy in that city on August - 15, 1872, and made her final vows of religion on March 31/ 1875. During the revolutionary disturbances in the .Argentine,' the community ' Returned to Ireland in " 1873;, and their services were secured for South Australia the late Archbishop Reynolds. In 1880 she landed in Adelaide,_ih company with 24 other Sisters, half of whom remained in- Adelaide, and the-dther half took" up work in Mount Gambier. •" »