Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 4 February 1909, Page 195

Intercolonial

Opening a bazaar at Bunbury, Premier Moore said as one who had travelled through the length and breadth of Western Australia, he recognised the good which was being accomplished by the Catholic Church,' and the whole community was under a debt of gratitude for the educational work done by that Church. It is seldom that a man in Mr. Moore's position has courage enough to give his honest opinion on this matter. Father Andrew Horan, administrator of the parish of Ipswich, Queensland, has been compelled to relinquish parochial duties for a few weeks, in correspondence with the directions of his medical adviser, who has ordered a complete rest by the seaside as a means of recuperating spent vigor (says the Catholic Press). Father Horan went to Ipswich thirty-five years ago as a young priest, and he has been there since. During his administratorship nearly £200,000 .has been- spent on land, schools, churches, and convents in various places throughout the extensive parish. In Ipswich alone there is £60,000 worth ' of church property, including St. Mary's, a magnificent . temple, which cost £43,000. . Most wonderful of all' is the fact that the parish has little or no financial obligations to meet. His Grace the Archbishop of Hobart is expected to arrive in Tasmania about the middle of r February. His Grace (writes the Hobart correspondent of the Freeman's Journal) received the pallium recently from his Holiness Pius X. at Rome. During his time there the Archbishop delivered an important lecture on the resources of Tasmania and-the progress of religion here and in the Commonwealth. , He took a prominent part in the Jubilee celebration in Rome as well as in the Eucharistic Congress in England, and also delivered addresses in Ireland and Scotland, and spent some time visiting important educational establishments in . Belgium and France, and part of Germany. He has arranged for a branch of the Irish Christian .Brothers to -be established in Hobart next year-.. ' , ■ Mr. _J. L. Forde, ' -who, until^ his for his home trip some ten months ago',^' represented the Hobart Mercury in Launceston, has been offered, and has accepted, the position of editor of the Melbourne Advocate (says the Tasmanian Monitor). The position is one. for which Mr. Forde is in every way fitted, and we are pleased to know it will bring him a bigger salary than that which he received while on the Mercury staff. Mr. Forde was beloved by his press colleagues in Tasmania. He fully realised in his own person the, Newman description of the gentleman, one who knew not how to give- off ence, and he superadded to it a willingness to oblige which made us all his debtors and tempted us to tax his good nature pethaps too .often. We wish_ him. success in his new sphere of work. _We find, indeed, the truest guarantee of this success for the new Advocate editor in the thoroughly practical Catholicity that has uniformly .marked his life. Such witness to his worth is, we know, - distasteful to him, but there are times when truth must be" told, even though it- gives pain to one whose religion has 'its home in his heart and in his life and is not worn for outward display. We congratulate the Advocate upon its new editor, and wish him and his paper success. His Grace Archbishop Kelly received a most enthusiastic welcome home at a crowded gathering- in St. Benedict's Hall, on the evening of January 13, when he was presented with an illuminated address and substantial cheque. His Grace, in the course of his reply, gave an account of his travels, and' in conclusion said: — You have presented me with a cheque, but I am' not in debt. I have experienced kindness everywhere, I wanted nothing, so I cannot take your cheque. Man wants, but little here below, nor wants that little long, but I take possossion of the money to hand it to our administrator for the benefit of those good ladies and gentlemen — some of them genuine-born Australians-*-who are carrying out the great work of education in this parish — I mean the Good Samaritan Sisters and the Marist Brothers. If it will stretch far enough— l do not know the amount — I would recommend WestmeacL Orphanage for a share, where many of our lads .receive a home, education, and training; also some of the other orphanages where our children may be placed. The nuns and brothers save us a dreadful responsibility, and we cannot give them- too much. I also recommend the St. Vincent de Paul Society's mission of looking after the poor children brought before the Children's Court, who are" provided with shelter until the society can procure a Catholic family into which they might be adopted. These are grand works, which appeal to me so much that I am glad to be. able to give them some little help.'