Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 20, 21 May 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

The death of Rev. James rJ. rFlynn. occurred at Lajnbton (N.S.W.) on April 29, after an illness of a few days. Ihe deceased was a, native of Singleton and was in his 47th year.

The silver jubilee of the ordination to the priesthood of the Very Rev. W. E. O'Reilly, of Merriwa was celebrated in an enthusiastic manner by nisi parishioners at Merriwa and Cassilis.

The Rev. P Mahoney,' of Yarrawonga (V.), wfco has been transferred to the Myrcleford parish, was presented with a purse of 250 sovereigns by the parishioners of Yarrawonga, prior to his departure. The Hospital Saturday collection in Sydney and suburbs this year totalled over £58fr\ with outstanding sums which wiW bring it up to £6000. This amount is between £800 and £900 above last year's total receipts. No less than 3300 lauies engaged in the campaign of collecting. &

A number of the Marist Fathers, who have ibsen doing, duty in the mission-fields of the Islands for some years past, are now on their way to Sydney for the purpjisfi of making their second novitiate at Villa Mama Hunter's Hill. At the conclusion of the ceremony they will return to spend the remainder of their lives an the Islands.

i»** *S^ c Pa^&ers. by xii(i r. M . s . « Orub , a , wnich left bydney on May js 1 , were the Very Rev. W E O'Reilly .(Merriwa), the Rev. Fathers J. Collins (P.p ' t» A r ? ' Waterloo), P. J. Roche (Muswellbrook),' and D. Ahem (Muswellbrook). Father O'Reilly, who has not had a holiday for twenty-two years will l? U i X lT^ an !* Eur °Pc, and return in twelvemonths' time lather, Collins' holiday will be limited to six months, while Fathers Roche and Ahem have been ordered a sea voyage by their medical advisers. Mr: H. A. Lenehan, F.R.A.S., the New South Wales trovernment Astronomer, who died somewhat suddenly on May 2 was born i n Sydney i. n 1843. He was educated at Lyndhurst College, which was conducted by the Benedictine Fathers. He became assistant at the Sydney Observatory i n 1870, and was appointed to the charge of it last year. After a Requieir, Mass at St Marys Church, North Sydney, the remains were interred mi the Gore Hill Cemetery. '

Mr Justice Real, in speaking the other Sunday at a ±i.A.CB. Society Communion breakfast in Brisbane dwelt on the inspiration afiorded by such spectacles as was witnessed that day in Brisbane, and previously in loowoomba, and on the spiritual and temporal advantages of the Hibernian Society. Truth, justice, honor and honesty, he said, were idle words unless they represented ideas founded on the recognition of man's duty to God, and of the paramount object of main's life on earth, namely, to prepare for a higher destiny beyond the grave. He commended the formation of female branches of the society, while regretting the necessity that at present, existed for women to support themselves. He thought woman's proper sphere was the home, whence proceeded all those - virtues and those noble traits of character and devotion to faith and country, which were pre-eminent in the Irish race '

In the course of an address at the laying of the foundation stone of a new church at Hurstville on Sunday, May 3, his Eminence Cardinal Moran; said it was not the material resources that sufficed to make a country attain its destiny. It was the genuine energy and dievotednless of, its people. The home countries had given to Australia some of the best of its enlightened citizens, and all, he hoped, would Mend together all their resources, strength, and energy so that Australia might be -true to her dest/iny. He was delighted to find that some of the best citizens of the country, men of talent and genius, were earnestly promoting the interest of Australia. If they had a great many more such men Australia would move quicker in the paths of progress towards her destiny than she had done hitherto- SpeaMng of the Commonwealth, the Cardinal likened it to a ship ready to sail, which had not a g.reafc many men to set it out on its journey. He hoped that New South Wales would cooperate in sending its best men to - steer the ship, ' and thus enable Australia to carry out the great purpose which Australia was destined ta carry out.