Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 11 May 1911, Page 883

Intercolonial

, Bishop Olier, S.M., Vicar-Apostolic of Central Oceanica, who spent some weeks in Sydney recuperating, sailed for i: his episcopal centre in Tonga on April 25. Accompanying him are two Marist Sisters, destined for duty in the missions of the Tongan Group. Ven. Archdeacon Smyth, of Perth, W.A., has been granted an extended holiday by Bishop Clune. He will spend it in Europe. For the past eleven years he has' labored in the Westralian capital almost without respite his work during the past few years being specially trying! Jhe citizens appreciate him, and intend making ' him a presentation. & . ' At the annual district meeting of the H.A.C.B. Soemty in Geelong (Victoria) it was stated that the total funds of the society in the State amounted to £72 210 the various funds in the district and branches showing an increase of over £SOOO during the year. The total number of members (all classes) on the books of the society at date was reported to be 10,101, made up as follow:—Male branches, 7851; ladies’ branches, 2106; juvenile branches, 144, being an increase of 429 members for the year. ' .The Rev Father James Rouliez, M.S.H., until recently of the is acred Heart Monastery, Kensington, has arrived in \Vestern Australia, where he joins Rev. Fathers Goodman, M.S.H., and .Tyler, M.S.H., at Leonora, in the Geraldton diocese, of which parish the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have taken charge at the request of Bishop Kelly lather Goodman was for some time stationed at Randwick ald f™ e , r Tyler was transferred from duty in the diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand, to the new mission in the W est. The fact (says the Brisbane Age) that his Grace the Archbishop, in consequence of feeble health, has been unable to officiate at the foundation or opening of churches in country districts, where, in addition to the ceremonies there would-be the physical strain of travelling, and that under similar circumstances .Confirmation has been administered in this diocese by Bishop Duhig of Rockhampton, has naturally been the subject of sympathetic consideration among many observant people. His Grace certainly maintains his mental vigor and keenness of faculties for whicxi fie has-always been noted. But it is an open secret that his bodily health and strength are in a weak condition. TV hen we consider how many years of continuous arduous duty he has performed—as a professor in St. Lawrence O loole s Seminary in Dublin, then as a zealous priest in Queensland, and subsequently as Archbishop of Brisbane— when we consider this long life of continuous pastoral labor, and also consider his advanced years, we cannot but admire the sound and hardy constitution and tfie zealous energy which have so long sustained him under the wearing bodily strain of ever active priestly and episcopal ministration. _ We believe that under these circumstances his Grace is desirous of having the assistance of a Coadjutor-Bishop, and will take the oreliminary course necessary for getting the Holy See to make the appointment. In fact it is quite possible that his Grace is already moving in the matter but of all this nothing whatever is definitely known. Judge Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, ho has been absent in Europe for the past .months, returned to Sydney by the Mataram last week (says the Catholic rress). He made the voyage mainly to see Ids wife and family, who reside in England,, also his eldest son, who lately received a commission in the Leinster Regiment bound for India. The Judge hadn’t seen this son for ten years. Ireland was visited by his Excellency, who spent a fortnight with some relatives in Limerick, the birthplace of Ins father, the late Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, onetime Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly He had an audience with Pope Pius X. in Rome, after which he went to Marseilles, whence he sailed for Singapore, on his way back to New Guinea. Mrs. Murray accompanied him as far as Java. It was in Marseilles he heard the rumor of the massacre of Staniforth Smith and the Government exploring party in the wilds of Papua. .116 did not believe it, however, knowing the people and the country so well. He was uneasy until he reached Singapore, where he was informed of their safe return. Judge Murray goes on to Papua in about a month. Judge Murray, was educated at Oxford, where his brother, Gilbert, is now Regius Professor of Greek, and with whom he stayed for a time during his sojourn in England. His brother’s health is not good, and he talks of coming to Australia ?Q e n f r e + g °T lg i t 0 Ne w Guinea as Acting-Administrator in 1904, the Judge was Colonel of the Irish Rifles Regiment and one of Sydney s leading barristers. He also acted as Judge here. He is a devout Catholic, a great athlete a. champion amateur boxer, and an expert swordsman ’As Lieutenant-Governor of Papua he combines the offices of ‘ State Governor and Chief Justice, and is the principal official link between the Territory and the Governor-General He is an Australian, a strong man physically, and as norm! lar m New Guinea as in Sydney. His administration of the Territory has been most successful. 01