Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 13 August 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

The new church of the Vincentian Fathers at Malvern, Victoria, which will cost about is expected to be ready for dedication towards the end of the present month. Arrangements are now being completed for the erection "6f the final wing .of the .con-vent of the Sisters of Mercy, -Singleton. '.To-, date the building has cost .^9OOO, and when completed will havt costal 5,000. " •• .-• •„-.. ■ , ~ : .. - - -<■ The return" of the Rev. Mother-General Gertrude, of the 1 Brigidine ..Order, and Rev. Mother Mary John,., of Randwick, Sydney, from Ireland after attending a -conference -of the Order * there, was celebrated- with much rejoicing at Aararat and at the central novitiate of the Order in Victoria (Mentone). Richmond School of Arts was en fete and filled to the doors^ on the evening of July 16, the occasion being the presentation by the parishioners of St. Monica's (Richmond) and St. " Gregory's (Kurrajong) of a purse of- 100 sovereigns to 'their pastor," the Rev. M. E. .O'Brien, as a souvenir of his completing 25 years in the priesthood. s

Mr. J. W. Horan, the West Australian' Rhodes Scholar for ' 1908, was fare welled by the members of the Christian Brothers' College Old Boys' , Perth, .in the . local Christian Brothers' College, prior to his" departure for England. Another student-of the college, Mr. A.. Brett,' was selected as .R hodes Scholar for 1906. . S.

The annual meeting of the-' Celtic. Club, Melbourne, presidedover by Dr. O'Donnell,* -disclosed" a very satisfactory "stale of" things. The club begins the financial year with a credit balance of . Improvements, and entertainments involved an expenditure of' £q \. " .- Despite that outlay, there is a credit ' balance .of 19s jid. Mr. John Travers, the only Labor man in the batch, of , newly-appointed Legislative Councillors in New South Wales, is an Irishman, a native of Cork. For several years he has served the interests of. trades unionism as secretary of the Ship--wrights' Union of New South Wales. He conducted his union's case for an award before a special court authorised by the Judgo in Arbitration with marked ability. Mr. Travers' name has. long been associated with the Eight Hours movement. • At the Primary Examination (June, 1908), held in the Uui-J versity (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the ' Freeman's Journal '), the Catholic schools were highly successful— in fact they may call the examination their own, the percentage of passes against all-comers being over 75 per cent. Though the test goes by the modest term of- ■' primary,' it is sufficiently difficult to' show that a -thorough grounding has been done in the rudiments-, of an English course— penmanship being a subject of the syllabus. Just now, when our Catholic "schoois are on their trial, it is " especially gratifying to find- so splendid "a- proof of their efficiency ' : under the- religious Orders.

His Grace the Archbishop of Adelaide received the other day from Rome the formal 'notification that the Very Rev. Archpriest Nevin had been created a Monsignore, or domestic prelate of his Holiness Pius- X. - The news of this well-merittd honor ' (says the ' Southern Cross ') will be received with great gratification by the MonsignoVe's many friends in Adelaide and the North. The Right Rev. Mgr. Nevin was born -in County Ros- '• common, Ireland, and is an alumnus of Ail Hallows', Dublin, the Alma Mater of his Grace the Archbishop. and Dean Ryan.' He arrived in Adelaide on December 20, 1869, the diocese being then administered by Bishop Shiel.

..The death is reported of Dr. J. R. Mclnerney, Fitzroy. which occurred" on July 22. The deceased, who ..was" an eminent mem-: ber,of-the medical profession in Victoria, was born in Gahvay in 1852. - He studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, where he obtajnedhis licentiate.^ He was gold "medallist (Dublin) at King and^Queeh^ rCoU^ of. Physicians'; and "wis* as a-young man'in charge of Jervois street Hospital there. He subsequently obtained his M.D.. degree at the Durham University, England. Afterwards he. was admitted M.D.. at Melbourne - University ad eundem. The only relatives he leaves in Australia \ are .his nephews, Dr. Nelly, who lived with him, and Dr. Charles : Mclnefriey, of Sydney; Mr. M.-_ Melnerney, a brother, is a K.C.,.- practising in Dublin. •• .- - .