Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 23 March 1911, Page 547

Intercolonial

The fund for tho completion of St. Mary’s Cathedral Sydney, now amounts to over £71,000.

The Rev. Father Cogan was welcomed home to Murrurundi on Sunday, March 5, by about four hundred parishioners. The popular priest had just returned from a two months’ trip to New Zealand. He was presented with a cheque for £95 12s 6d, a gold watch, and a gold-mounted guard; a cross of gold by the ladies, and a silver-mounted umbrella was the gift he received from the children.

On Sunday, March 12, three beautiful stained-glass windows were unveiled and blessed in St. Monica’s Church, Essendon (Melbourne), by the Very Rev. Dean Phelan. The chancel window, representing the Crucifixion, costing £260, is the generous gift of the Very Rev. D. B. Nelan. The other windows, representing the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Conception, costing £6O, are respectively the gifts from the sodality of the women’s branch of the Sacred Heart and the Children of Mary.

In his Lenten Pastoral the Bishop of Maitland recalls an instance of remarkable interest in the welfare of Catholic education in the diocese J. G. Rigney, of Maitland. A few years ago,’ says Dr. O’Dwyer, ‘Mr. Rigney, at his own instance, offered to the Bishop, my venerated predecessor, to provide funds for the permanent endowment of a qualified organiser of our schools. Ihe offer was accepted, and during the last -three years the first appointee, a, lady qualified with educational diplomas om an English _ University, has been engaged in promoting the organisation of our schools.’

„ o The Bishop of Sandhurst (Right Rev. Dr. Reville, U.S.A.) and the Bishop of Sale (Right Rev. Dr. Corbett) were given an enthusiastic welcome home. In the course of an interview. Dr. Reville said that during his stay in Ireland there was much rain, rendering it inconvenient lor travelling. There were some fine young Irish immigrants on board the steamer on which he travelled, but he regretted that there was considerable opposition in Ireland to the people leaving her shores. Young men were going to America from Ireland despite the discouragement, and it would be much better that they should come to the empty spaces of Australia. At present there ;S httle for the young Irishman to do in his own country. ”Rh Home Rule that condition of affairs would be improved.

His Lordship Dr, Reville, Bishop of Sandhurst, who returned to Bendigo on March I after an absence of over twelve months in Europe, was accorded a most enthusiastic reception at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. In the course of his reply to an. address of welcome his Lordship said that since he had been away he had spent some time in England, which they knew was a Protestant country. But he found that in England the Government paid the teachers of Catholic schools, and also furnished them. The caretakers were also paid by the Government. Here in Victoria we were very proud of the mother conntry, and of the example she set us in many things. He trusted that this example he had mentioned would be emulated by our Government. Catholics would be quite satisfied to give up the public schools, to which they contributed, to the Protestant denomination, and allow them to teach whatever system of religion they might agree upon, if_ at the same time they received payment for secular i instruction. The Catholics were prepared to bund their own schools on the same conditions, and to be allowed to teach their own religion. Many of those present had been educated in Catholic schools, and he ventured to say there were no better citizens in Bendigo His Lordship was presented with a horse and buggy by the Catholics of Bendigo. J y

Last Monday, by the Orsova, his Eminence Cardinal Moran, his Grace the Archbishop of Hobart (Most Rev. Dr. Delany), his Grace the Archbishop of Wellington (Most Dl \ Redwood, S.M.), and Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher, Bishop of Goulburn, and Right Rev. Mgr. O’Haran arrived ?} , 1 oi t 1 . Melbourne (says the Advocate of March 11). The Cardinal and party were met at the pier by his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, who was accompanied by his private secretary (the Very Rev. J. .McCarthy), the Very Revs. W. Quilter and R. Collins b fi? also present They were guests of the Archbishop of Melbourne till Wednesday, when they left for Perth W.A., where, on the feast of St. Patrick, March 17,, the Cardinal, assisted by the Bishops, will consecrate the Right Rev. Dr. Chine, C.SS.R., who succeeds Dr. Gibney as Bishop of Perth. he occasional sermon will be preached by the Bishop of Goulburn, The Bishops of Sandhurst Ballarat, and Sale, and over thirty priests accepted the invitation of his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne to meet the Cardinal and the other visiting prelates at dinner on Tuesday last. Prelates and priests gathered at the pier on Wednesday afternoon to see the Cardinal and party off by the Orsova. The following priests of the archdiocese were also passengers for Fremantle:—Rev J Manly (Kew), Rev. R. S. Benson (South Yarra), Rev J* J, Cusack (Gordon), Rev. J. J. Cusack (St. Hilda East).’