Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 30 April 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

The Bishop of Ballarat, his Lordship Dr. Higgips, goes to Rome shortly, and in his Cathedral city preparations are being made to give him a royal v send-off. T\he ' Eva ' fund (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the J Freeman's Journal ') has topped £200, and It is probable that some £50 or so will be realised before the .close of the movement here. Dr. O'Donuell is interesting himself in this praiseworthy oib'jeot.' The funeral of the late Dean Murphy took place on April 11, at tne Shepparton cemetery. The procession, which, was- the largest ever seen in the district, was headed by the children of the schools and , - the members of the local branch 11.A.0.8. Society. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne was to lay the memorial stone of the Ecclesiastical Seminary, Elsternwick, on Low Sunday. Including the land .the total cost is about £16,1i00, which is the gift of Miss O'Neill. < That was to be the' last public act of his Gra.ce before leaving for Europe. The new church and convent at Eugowra was opened and blessed by his Lordship Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Bafchurst, assisted by the Rev. T. J . Doran. The building cost £1100, the whole of which, with the exception of £300, has already been collected in donations- from Forbes and Goolagong. , The memory of the late. Very Rev- "W. M. Walsh, Townsyille, is to be perpetuated by the • erection of -a memorial high altar in the Sacred Heart ' Church, Townsville, at a cost of from £300 to £500. _.The sum. of £120. towards the cost was promised at .the first meettng of the parishioners. The Yen. Archdeacon .Davy, late of Benalla, who died in January, last, left by will da-ted February. 19, 1903, estate of the value of' £330, realty and £3988 person-" alty up.wn trust for such religious, ~^educa>ti'onal, andl charitable purposes in the township of Benalla in connection with the Catholic Church as his trustees should deem fit. The St. Patrick's Day celebration in Melbourne was not only a social but also' a financial success, the net profit realising between £,200 and £3'oo. Of this saimi £167 will bie devoted to the Foundling Hospital, Broadmeadows, and the balance to a sinking fund. His Grace the Archbishop has generously given a sub*stantial bonus to the secretary, Mr. J. W. Bray. His Eminence Cardinal Moran presided at the final meeting of the St. Patrick's Day celebration committee, Sydney. The financial statement showed' that the total receipts from the sports' meeting and the national concert were £967, which, after deducting expenses, including a number of prizes allotted in the musical arid other competitions, left a donation ' of £65 to each of the following institutions : — Westmead Boys'- Home, St. Ann's Orphanage (Liverpool), Waitara Foundling Hospital, Manly Industrial Orphanage, Baulkham Hills Orphanage, Kincumber Orphanage, Ryde _ Orphanage, and St. Joseph's Orphanage, Lane Cove-road. His Lordship Dr. O'Connor (Bishop .of Armidjale), assisted by the Rev. Fathers Lloyd and Burchell, opened and blessed the other day the additions recently made to the Convent of Mercy, Moree. The attendance was large,' and included many non-Catholic friends. At the conclusion of the ceremonies his Lordship said that the Sisters of Mercy had in. the past eight years spent over £5000 in the purchase of land, the erection of convent buildings, and the. planting and beautifying of the grounds. 'In Moree the people had experienced "the beneficent influence of the Sisters good example, but* notwithstanding the great benefits they had besiowed on the ' community, they had never before made a disect appeal to . the people's generosity, though he was sure that it would not be made in -vain. By hlis last will, the late Colonel Freehill appointed. his widow,' Eileen JYEarie Freehili, and his brother-in-law, Edward John Berie Hollingdale, executors and trustees of his estate. He bequeathed his library (with! the exception of certain French, Italian, and Spanish books, which he devised" to his nephews), to the Sydney University ; £.10.0 each to the Lewishamf Hospital, Boys' Home at Westm-ead, St. Martha's Home at Leidbhardt, and the Industrial School at Manly ; £10(j0 to the Rector and Fellows of St. John's College, within the University of Sydney, to found a bursary, to be awarded as they * think fit ; and .£4OO to Cardinal Moran or his successor to found a bursary for Catholic ecclesiastical students in the archdiocese of Sydney. . -The estate was. valued for probate at close on £50,000.. *' :