Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 4 May 1911, Page 835

Intercolonial

The' Very Rev. Father Sullivan, S.M.A., is at present lecturing on behalf of the African Missions in the diocese of Armidale. The parish and outside donations to the presentation to Dr. Chine on his consecration as Bishop of Perth amounted to £2722, of which members of the Hibernian Society contributed £706. Very Rev. Father D. Hogan, P.P., of Shepparton, Victoria, who recently celebrated the silver jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood, was entertained by the parishioners, and presented with gifts in honor of the occasion. / The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are now working in i the vast diocese of Geraldton, W.A., where Bishop Kelly has entrusted to their charge the parish of Leonara in the Eastern Goldfields districts. ' tv Bro. R. P. rell^ n Treasurer of the No. 1 Victorian District of the Hibernian Society, who is about to take a six months' trip to Ireland and America, was entertained by the past and present officers of the District Board who made him a presentation. ' On Sunday, April 2, the new Church of St. Aurnistih" was opened at Kyabram by his Lordship the. Bishop of Sandhurst, Dr. Reville, 0.5. A., assisted by Prior Malone and fathers Morrogh and Hoyne. There was a very largp congregation, visitors coming from all parts of the district and neighboring townships to witness the ceremony. Rev. Father Peter Hayes, of Bunburv (says the W 4 Record), has been appointed Administrator of the Cathedral parish, Perth. Father Hayes has been more than eight years a resident of West Australia. His first appointment was to Kalgoorlie. From Kalgoorlie he went to Bunbury five years ago. Father Haves' has been at all times and in all places a great favorite with every class of the community. The Rev. A. May well known for his work amongst the poor children of the city and suburbs (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman's Journal), was given a send-off at the Flemington Town Hall previous to his well-earned holiday. The hall was crowded by a representative gathering of priests and laymen. Dr. H J Cahill who presided, eulogised the guest for his large-hearted charity to the poor. Mr. W. P. Furlong, LL.B., followed in a similar strain, and said that Father May was the poor man s friend. Warm tributes were paid by a number of the city and suburban clergy and the two Galway priests Fathers Carp and O'Sullivan. Father May was deeply touched, and made a feeling reply. ' Widespread sorrow (says the Melbourne Tribune) was felt, not only in Brunswick, but in everv part of the archdiocese, when it became known that the "Rev. Father Lubv the beloved pastor of St. Ambrose's Church, Brunswick had passed away suddenly on Easter Monday morning! .bather Liiby, who had been twenty-two years in charge of his parish at Brunswick, was a familiar and well-loved figure, not only amongst his own parishioners, but with every section of the community. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland about 55 years ago, and was ordained at All Hallows' College, Dublin, in 1878. He came to Australia some -thirtv years ago, and ministered in several parishes, including West Melbourne and Brighton. n „ Rev - brother Colomba Dillon, of the Christian Brothers' College, Wakefield street, Adelaide, after a long illness borne with cheerful resignation, passed to his reward on April o. he deceased was an old scholar of the Brothers in. Brisbane. . He spent some years in business in that city earning for himself the high esteem of his employers Feeling himself, however, destined for a higher vocation, he entered the novitiate of the Christian Brothers in Sydney and after two years spent in their training college, was s ™f. o ,.Adelaide, where he labored for the last ten years of. his life making himself a great favorite in the junior classes by his mild manner, and proving himself bv examination results to be a most efficient teacher: For'some time work owing to failing health, Le had to retire from active work. By the Japanese mail steamer, Yawata Maru, which sailed on April 19, the Very Rev. Father P. M. Lynch of the Redemptonst Order, with the Rev. Fathers D Mitchell and F Gilmartin, of the same Order, left for the Philippine Islands, to take charge of the Redemptorist mission there (says the Catholic Press). The mission of which Father Lynch will be Superior, embraces six islands, with a population of 40,000 Catholics, the monastery being at Opong, on the Island of Mactan. The-natives speak Spanish and a Filipino dialect, called Visayan The mission was founded V e ™ r ago by , the late Father Boylan, C.SS.R (afterwards Bishop), who was accompanied from Sydney to the Philippines by that venerable Redemntorist missionary, Father Thomas O'Farrell, for manv years Superior of the Order in Australasia. Father lunch's departure is regretted bv Catholics all over the Commonwealth and New Zealand. He has given missions everywhere, and, besides eloquence, he possesses personal ma? netism in a singular degree, which is responsible for tho great success that has invariably attended his work