Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 22 October 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

An address of welcome from -the Catholic clergy and laity was presented on October 8-by his Eminence Cardinal. Moran to his Excellency Earl Dudley, Governor-General, .at the vice-regal resi? dence, Sydney. ' *

Rev. Father P. J. Donovan, pastor of Gundagi, will celebrate the silver jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood on December 22. His many friends intend to mark the occasion by the presentation of an address and purse of sovereigns.

On November 14 the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, will, celebrate the forty-third anniversary of his episcopal consecration. His Lordship is in the fifty-seventh year of his priesthood, and the eighty-first of nis age v

His Lordship Bishop Gibney, of Perth ,is now fully restored to health after his recent indisposition. When the American Fleet was at Albany his Lordship was not well enough to go down to welcome it on behalf of the Catholics, but was represented by Archdeacon Smyth as deputy. He sent a welcoming letter, however, addressed to the chaplain, Father Gleeson, who sent a very eloquent reply.

The Rev. Brother Hennessy, assistant to the Superior-General of the Irish Christian Brothers,' will visit Launceston and Hobart in the course of a few weeks (says the Monitor). His visit to Tasmania is preparatory to the establishment in the near future of Christian schools in both the Tasmanian cities. Brother Hennessy was for years one of the most successful and highly esteemed teachers in the well-known Christian schools, Our Lady's Mount, Cork. He is at present attached to the Central House of the Order in Dublin.

Speaking recently at New Ross, his Grace Archbishop Kelly said : — ' It is a pleasure to me, and New Ross people may feel grateful for the fact of the physical strength I acquired in Ross. That physical strength now serves me^in prolonging the days of his Eminence Cardinal Moran. My shoulders are broad, I eat well and sleep well, and I am thankful to God for being able to relieve him of much physical fatigue. But he does not spare himself, and he never complains, and if I am to borrow an illustration from a modern invention I will say he is like a powerful motor-engine, driving every work of religion and patriotism along irresistibly to success. And he does not think of himself, and never will until God calls him *o his reward.'

The Very Rev. Dean Murlay, S.M., pioneer priest of the Rockhampton Diocese, passed away at Gladstone on October 6. Dean Murlay had been in Queensland for nearly .forty-five years, and he worked as a missionary in the Rockhampton Diocese when there were no churo-es to say Mass in. He was a very energetic and devoted priest (says the Catholic Press), and was much loved. He was a man of large charily and of great humility. Indeed, he refused to allow himself to be nominated for the episcopate when Rockhampton was created a separate diocese. He was seventy-eight years of age, and a native of Ardois, in the north of France. He was ordained in Europe, and for a long time was a secular priest. In 1884 he came to Sydney from the north, and was received into the Society of Mary. He worked here for fifteen of the twenty-four years that he had been a Marist. At one time he had charge of old St. Michael's, at Dawes Point. He was also stationed at Si. Patrick's, Church Hill, and Villa Maria. The popular chaplain of the American FleeJ, the Rev. M. Glceson, before leaving Albany, wrote to the ''Very Rev. Dean Phclan to express his appreciation of the kindness and hospitality the Catholic members of the fleet received during their stay in Melbourne (says- the Tribune). Father Gleeson says it was a revelation to him to find the Catholic bodj occupying so prominent a position in the Commonwealth, and that the ecclesiastical buildings in Melbourne surpassed anything he had seen during his travels, or anything he could have "expectecl. The letter goes on to say : ' You can have no idea how gratified I am to feel that the little I did is so highly appreciated by yourself and the other Catholic leaders in Melbourne. Our visit to Australia has been a splendid success from every point of view ; and those < f us who belong to the old race and the old faith will not soon forget the enthusiasm of the Catholic welcome. _ We have all been tremendously impressed with the reception accorded -to us, and we all wish the people of Australia every success in their great work of nation-building under the Southern Cross. ' Fath -r Gleeson has taken with him views of the" principal Catholic buildings in Melbourne, with the intention of giving an illustrated lecture on his return to America^ on the progress of the Catholic Church here.