Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 16 March 1911, Page 499

Intercolonial

.-' The Right Rev. Mgr. Byrne, V.G., D.D., Goodwood (Adelaide), celebrated his, seventy-seventh birthday last month. The Monsignor celebrated the golden jubilee of his priesthood last year, amid great rejoicings. The Right Rev. Dr. Carroll, Bishop of Lismore, on February 25 opened and blessed the new convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph at Mullumbimby. There were about 500 people present at the ceremony, and a sum of £230 was subscribed. The library of St. Vincent de Paul, Sydney, is one of the finest collections of standard Catholic works to be found in Australia (says the Freeman's Journal): The library was established in 1893, and about 25,000 books are now catalogued. Fiction, history, biography, and philosophy are among the chief sections of classification. The Bishop of Sandhurst (Right Dr. Reville, 0 S A ) and the Bishop of Sale (Right Dr. Corbett), returned to Melbourne on February 27, from a visit to Europe. The Archbishop of Melbourne welcomed them at luncheon at his palace, at which many" of the leading "priests of Victoria were present. The prelates were given great receptions in Bendigo and Sale, respectively. ■ The Hon. W. J. Denny, Attorney-General, South Australia, has accepted an invitation from his Eminence Cardinal Moran to deliver the oration at the St. Patrick's Day demonstration in Sydney on March 18 (says the Southern Cross). His Eminence has paid a high compliment both to Mr. Denny and the State in making the choice. Among those who have delivered the orations in Previous years ? re men like Mr. Justice Higgins, the Hon. 1. M Glynn, the Hon. Hugh Mahon, and Hon. W. A. Holm an. On February 7 (says the W.A. Record) the Very Rev. Father Bertran, 0.5.8., late Prior and V.G. of New Noma, breathed his last at the Monastery in his eightyfourth year. Father Bertran was a native- of Spain/and came to AN est Australia in 1855, and ever since has taken a leading part in the religious life of the Benedictine community When he landed in the West, the home of the Benedictines, was at Subiaco, Perth, and there the saintly young priest, entered upon his duties as Master of Novices, to train and direct the spiritual life of the you religious. He had the honor of opening the first Novice" ship of the Benedictines. rvrr His Eminence the Cardinal, accompanied by Monsignor O Ha . r I P'J e i Sydney on March 1 for Perth (W.A.), where lie will officiate at the consecration of the Right Rev Dr Chine, as Bishop of Perth, on St. Patrick's* Dav. ' His Eminence (says the Freeman's Journal) will be assisted by his Grace Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, N.Z. their Lordships Dr Gallagher (who will preach on the occasion), S4yn? (f Geraldto ")> Dr- Norton (of Port Augusta S.A.), Dr. Torres (of New Norcia , Monsignor O'Haran Ba°nno g nO C SS R T ?T fe f Deil?^V l) ' V « r l ßeV - Father * gannon, Übb.R., J. P. Bannon, 0.P., and Francis Chine, • _ The Right Rev, Dr. Duhig, Bishop of Rockhampton, in S* s ?° U <Pn°f, a b T f IStory of t he C,mrch in his diocese? sa\s.— Lockhampton is now and has been for many years Sn nm J?« a Bl t P - and ? e of a diocese 350,000 square miles in extent. There are laboring in the diocese thirty priests ,twelve Christian Brothers, and 180 nuns belonging to four different Religious Orders We have n twenty Catholic schools, attended by about o()00 pupils and one orphanage, under the care of the Sisters of Mercy In a vast diocese . . ... the ordinary citizen can hardly realise the almost interminable jo rneys to be undertaken and the amount of up-hill pioneering work to be done. Last year I travelled 10,000 miles through the diocese, and I felt fully repaid for the little hardships I went through by the splendid work I found priests and nuns carrying on everywhere, often under very exacting climatic and other conditions unaer very

Archbishon C nf Ur M f his Lenten Pastoral - his Grace the Arcrioisliop of Melbourne, says:—‘To rove a nrae+iont answer to the Catholic who asks how he may aid the misSious I would say, “Join one or both of the two piincba societies which have been established for this . purpose—the Association for the Propagation of the Faith and the Society h the Holy Childhood.” .Of these the more im! portant is the former. If we except a few confraternities the^Cbn r 1 ' a P ortanc . e ’ . th ? societies are the sole support of the Church s missions in pagan lands. For this obieet Ends'll & 40 ?°“, a • vear > «Mo Enfiland alone senus iJ’UUUjUUO sterling for the spread of Protestantism. It ill peihaps come as a surprise to many to learn that certain missions in this country are still in' receipt of aid According to the annual statement published last P year the £297 e !ss Z Cea Ti n i contributed to the asStiJn qi los 3d, while she received from the funds £25 390 it Bd, of which £220 was given to mission! on the conHnen? lw A^ Bha - -Moreover, £1468 was allotted to British Till G « lnea ’ wb, . ch T 1 S L administered by the Commonwealth these figures will, I think, amply bear out 7 ; eaitll made above that a more generous sunnort O f S Catholic missions might well be expected of us,’ vataoiw