Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

His Grace _ the Archbishop of Melbourne left for Europe on Tuesday of last week by the ' Mongolia.'

The death is reported of the Rev. Thomas Cahill, S. J., which occurred on Easter Sunday, at St. Ignatius' presbytery, Richmond. The deceased was in his 81st year, and spent 36 years in Victoria. The lato Father Cahill was a native of Carlow.

The Rev. E. W. O'Reilly, of Merriwa (who recently celebrated his sacerdotal silver jubilee), is leaving; with Rev. Father Roche, of Muswelibli'ook, on. & well-earned holiday in the Old Country. Father 11. Ward, of Hamilton, has been appointed to the charge of Merriwa during Father O Rellly's absence.

The late David Syme, proprietor of the Melbourne ' Age,' was worth nearly one million. He left £50,000 to public charities", £S|JO to Mr. Schuyler, editor of the ' Age,' £500 to Mr. Benjamin Hoare, his leader-writer, and legacies to other members of his staff** The paper passes into the hands of his sons. .

May (says the 'Catholic Press') will be a busy' month for his Eminence the Cardinal. Besides attending to the enormous mass of work that usually falls to his lot, he will go to Young to dedicate the; new church on May 10. Then on Sunday, May 24, he will'ibe in Brisbane to lay the foundation stone ot the neW Mater Misericordiae Hospital.

The list of killed in the recent railway disaster at Brayibrook Junction, Victoria, included Mr. Thomas McOann, qf West Melt/ourme, who only a f ew, weeks ago was married at St. Patrick's Cathedral to Miss G-or-raan. He was on a visit to Ballarat with his> bride, who, however, did not return with him in the ill-fated train, as she had arranged to slay with her relatives . until the end of the week. . . In his will the late Father D. J. Byrne, of Dalby, who died in November last, made the following charitable b«q<uests —The pi'iests of the archdiocese of Brisbane fox religious purposes, £200 ,- the Magdalen Asylum, £300 ; Dalby Hospital, £100 ; a bursary in, a Cath- - olic Ecclesiastical College, to be awarded by the Catholic ArohMsbop, according to Ms judgment, £1000 ; the Sisters of Mercy, Dalby, to be expended on their convent, £500 ; bell for the Catholic church, Dalby, £100! He further directed the residue of his estate to be handed to the Archbishop of Brisbani, to be expended as his Grace might judge most conducive to the good of religion in the diocese. Mr. Thomas Loiughlin,, of ' Killarney,' Warrenheip, near Ballarat, Is about to pay a visit to Ireland for the purpose of attending the .ceremony connected with the opening and dedication of a new Catholic church which he iuas built in his native parish of Kilkenny at a cost of £30,000. The edifice, which is to be presented by Mr. Loughlin to the Bishop of Kilkenny on behalf of the dfiocese, in memory of the deceased relatives of the donor, has been constructed under the ' supervision! of an eminent architect. It has been ' arranged that the opening ceremony will be performed • in. July, and those present will include a number of ■ Australians who will at the time be on a visit' to the home countries. Among those who are expected to join in the proceedings will be the Archbishop of Melbourne, the Bishop of Ballarat, the Archbishop of Hobart, and priests from various dioceses of Australia. A number of ladies and gentlemen belonging to the laity of the diocese of Ballarat will also be present. In a circular .letter just issued his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, who is about to leave for Rome, says : — ' I have appointed the Very Rev. Dean Phelan Administrator of the diocese for the time being, and permanent Vicar-General, and .1 feel confident both that his ability, energy, and zeal will enable him to discharge the onerous duties of these offices with marked' success, and that his labors will be lessened by the loyal and brotherly co-ooerdtlon of every priest of the diocese. I have appointed the Rev. John M'Cairthy^ Chancellor of the diocese. It will be his duty to safe-r.. guard the financial interests of the diocese— to look] after the diocesan accounts, the title deeds of Church, property, insurances, the annual parochial 'balance sheets, the minutes of the meetings of Catholic' Trusts' Corporation, the wills of the clergy,, and such other matters as 1 appertain, to the temporal interests of the diocese. From the proofs he has already given of Singular aptitude for the fulfilment of these various duties, we may feel assured that no labor will be spared .by him, to keep the temporalities of the diooese'lir perfect order.'

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