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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11, 18 March 1909, Page 438

Christmas Day was the 77th birthday of • the Irish Lord Chief Baron, the Right Hon. Christopher Palles, LL.D. — the second favorite of the Irish National University Senate in their election, of a Chancellor, and a very good second too. One of the most brilliant scholars who ever came out of Clongowes, the Chief Baron was the— first Senior Moderator of his year at Trinity, and was only not a Scholar of the House because at that date Catholics were ineligible for scholarships. The Lord Chief Baron is president of the Clongowes (Old Boys') Union. The solemn blessing and opening of the Central Novitiate for the Sisters of Mercy, Flemington, on Sunday afternoon, February 28, by the Right "Rev. Dr. Reyille, Bishop of Sandhurst, drew a large and representative gathering of clergy and laity. The property was purchased some months ago from Mrs. McCracken at a cost of £3000. The site is an imposing one, consisting of About three acres on the crest of the hill in Mount Alexander road. The original house is to be used for residential purposes^ while a new 'three-storeyed building "has been erected, bringing the total cost up to about £10,000. Bishop Reville blessed the building, and was then introduced to those present by Dean Phelan, . who said he' doubted if in the memory of any of them they had. attended a function of such lasting and important effects as that one would have. Bishop Reville had not only come there at a good deal of inconvenience, but the speaker had much pleasure in announcing that the Bishop had devoted £100 towards the expenses on his own behalf, and £1000 from the Bendigo parish.