Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 5 November 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

His Grace Archbishop Kelly is expected to reach Sydney from Europe on January 2. ' The real and personal estate of the late Mr. David Syme . in Victoria has been certified for duty by the officer for probate at the sum of ,£929,481 6s 4d. The Rev. Brother Brown, of St. Patrick's College, Ballarat, passed away on October 20, after a short illness. The deceased was a native of County Roscommon. It is proposed to erect a memorial to the late Rev. Father Guilfoyle, Adm. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat. What form it will take has not yet been decided on. Mr. Thomas Loughlin, of Warrenheip, who built the new Church otSt. John, in Kilkenny, Ireland, has been appointed one of the Pope's Chamberlains, in addition to being created a Knight of St. Gregory. The population of the Commonwealth States is as follows :—: — New South Wales, 1,550,489; Victoria, 1,238,931; Queensland, 538,918 ; South Australia, 385,672 ; Western -Australia, 262,309 ; Tasmania, 179,356; Commonwealth total, 4,i55> 6 73The Australian Medical Congress placed on record its deep sense of sorrow at the death of the late Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, one of the past presidents, and its recognition of the great services rendered by the deceased gentleman to the public and the profession. The resolution was moved by Professor Allen, of Melbourne University, and the seconder was Dr. John Thomson, of Brisbane, who remarked that Sir Thomas Fitzgerald's was a name to conjure with. He was the chief justice of the high court of surgery of Australia — in fact, was the high court himself. After an absence of nearly six months (says the Freeman's Journal), his Lordship Dr. Olier, Bishop of Tonga, will leave Sydney early next month to return to his arduous missionary duties in the Islands. Bishop Olier's trip to. Sydney was compulsory in order that he might recruit his shattered health, which had been undermined by the trials and privations endured by him in his labors amongst the islanders. He was treated at St. Vincent's Hospital on his arrival in Sydney, and has gradually recovered his usual health during his rest at Villa" Maria, Hunter's Hill. His life record in the work of Christianising the savages extends over a period of twenty-eight years. The Church has in every age held out a helping hand to science and art (says the Melbourne Advocate), and the great masters in painting, sculpture, and music were encouraged by " her moral and material support. The presence of many men eminent in the medical and surgical professions at the Metropolitan Cathedral last Sunday recalled the fostering care of the Church in promoting research for the better treatment and the prevention of disease. Not a few of her sons have climbed to the topmost rung of the ladder in this noble art, and have given freely of their knowledge to the work of aiding sick and suffering humanity. The occasional sermon was delivered before the JViedical Congressmen by the Very Rev. James O'Dwyer, S.J., who dealt in a masterly way with the relation of the Catholic Church to medical science. Sunday, October 18, was a golden day in Temora, when the beautiful Sacred Heart Church, one of the finest country Catholic churches in Australia, was blessed and opened (says the Catholic Press). The building is truly striking in all its details, and it is a monument the untiring energy and zeal of Father Fallon, the popular parish priest, who, backed up by the generosity of devoted parishioners, was enabled to carry out a great work in a remarkably short space "of time. The building" began on March 2, 1907, so it will be seen that no time was lost, although nearly has been expended. The ceremony was performed by the Right l^?ev. Dr. Gallagher, Bishop of Goulburn, assisted by the Right Rev. Dr. O'Connor, Bishop of Armidale. The occasional sermon was* preached by the Very Rev. Dean Hegarty. The subscriptions to the building fund received during;the day amounted to over