Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 19, 14 May 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

The St. Patrick's Day festival at Ballarat resulted in a profit of £540.

His Eminence Cardinal Moran blessed and opened a new church at Wyong ooa Sunday, April 26. The first government small-arms factory- in Australiawan be located at Lithgow, whfere the Government has bo«g'ht the land. •

A number of M)arist Fathers arrived in Sydney rThe^JoZ leas. C6> * to the missiona^ fl^s

t ? e^ hh + v' h)aS been Msy of late (in - *lie ranks of the Jesuit (Fathers, (says the ' Freeman s J o urnaL ) three members of Ike Order having gone to their reward watbn the last six or eight weeks, viz., Rev. Fathers Minn, iS.J., Leahy, /S.J., and Cahill, S.J. (Bishop of Rockhampton), who made such a brilliant pass in last year's Sydney Senior University Examination, has succeeded in winning the St. John's jCollego Classical Sohokvrshap-the most coveted honor i n the Bestowal of the college (authorities. HeJ? e fwS+ iUWIee rf °i J the found^ion of the Sacred pS II r f ' CoMnctod *y theSislers of St. J s- O?P? P a t GouJ-wirn, w as celebrated on April 23. His Loidship Bishop Gallagher presided a t Higlf Mass a nd the 8 cS.R WaS Preached by ilhG Rev - Father Pat-

The {Rev. Fathers O'Connor and O'Sullivain who are at present collecting i n the S ?^? S h !° f 111^. on behalf "" o f the KillaW Cathedral, have received a dona 1 inn J vfn from ,Mr. T. Lou K hlin of Ballarat. U ° natlon o£ **0 M) , The Very Rev. W. E. O'Reilly, Alerriwa, who relio years te V n?p"°s had a Aac^ion for twentySand a r i v ReiUy ' lnleaids taliin 'S a tri i> to X J£ f C r aSSlh l, he as Presented with £124; at sregjg,* ° m the la ' dleSl and £214 '««! tbe con-

Rev Brother Hennessy, of Dublin, Assistant Superior General of the Christian Brothers has aniv.ed j nn feyd " e 7 f }' om Capetown, on a visit to Australia. Dunnjr his stay, which will extend , o ver the remainder o the jear Brother Ilennessy will make a visitation ot all the houses of the jOrder in Australia

Jn opening the new church afc Wyong, his Emtmenco Cardinal Moran was presented by Father Power, on behalf no f Mrs v M. J. Wood'oury, with a silver chalice two hundred year's old, which had been a family heirloom, and had fyeen used in tho Wyong district for ffifty years. Tho establishment of a church at Wyon°- iis largely 'due to the noble efforts of Ibis Catholic family. His L a ordship Dr. Duhig (Bishop of Rockhampton) has received from hiis Holine&s Pope Pius X. magnificent oil painting of the Virgin and jchild by a Roman painter for the Mount Morgan (Art Union:. The painting; is copied from, an ancient picture in the {Oratory of the Irish College at Rome, where SBisfoiop Duhig himself studied.

On Sunday, April 26, not only at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, but in most of the Catholic churches, prayers were offered up for +hb souls of those who perished, and f o r ithe speedy recovery of the injured in the recent Victorian railway accident!, whilst in some cases the special prayers of the [faithful were askpd- for _those amengst th* .list of killed, whose names, were read out. The Very Key. Dr. Kelly of St. Brigid's Church', North Pitzroy, made a touching reference to the death of Miss Alice Laffan, who, with her deceased sister, took a great interest in the bazaar" that was being heLd d'n connection with the church. There was a Uarge and representative gathering of the Catholic iJ&ity on the evening of April 24, at the palace in Sturt-str&et, Ballarat, in connection ' with presentation of illuminated addresses to His Lordship Bishop Hliggins, [prior to his departure for Rome. It had been arranged that the Bishop should be entertained at a public farewell , social and concert at St Patrick's Hall, but he specially requested that the function, in connection iwith which, lavish preparations had been made, should be abandoned as a mark nf respect to the memory of the large number of persons who had been ■ kalled in the riulway disaster at Sun shine.