Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 18 May 1911, Page 931

Intercolonial

• + i Th Ar n u t receipts from the St. Patrick’s Night concert m the Melbourne Town Hall were £IOO 14s. b 1 . Rev. Father W. Gallagher has been transferred from Perth°fn° t l‘ e Cath . edl ' ai of the Immaculate Conception, fertn, to act as private secretary to Bishop Clune who lias made a number of clerical changes-and appointments since his consecration a few weeks ago. P w * Th ? Rev - Father T. Robinson, of Kalgoorlie pn? i, b T 1 appointed Dean and Vicar Forane of the Smvth W nf R Bishop Chine has also appointed Archdeacon Smyth, of. Bun bury, who has left for a holiday in Europe Dean of the South-West portion of the diocese of Perth! m The Mother Provincial, Sister Mary Alphonsus Liguori (Dowling), and Sister Mary Stanislaus (Kavanagh) of the Order of the Good Shepherd, Abbotsford, Vic., have left for Europe to attend the General Chapter of their Order at Angers, France. A T he Right Rev Mgr. Byrne, of Goodwood, VicarGeneral of the archdiocese of Adelaide, celebrated the 51st anniversary of his ordination ; to the priesthood on April t u - His golden jubilee was celebrated with great rejoicing by his people and the clergy last year. The Monsignor, who is in his VBth year, is the first priest to celebrate his golden jubilee in South Australia. He. was ordained in Adelaide in 1860. • ; ■ At the annual Communion breakfast of the Hibernian Society in Sydney, Past District President Fox presented a cheque tor £1250 to the Cardinal as the Hibernians’ contribution to the fund for the completion of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Bro. Fox said that several months ago the society offered its co-operation in-this work, and it was thought £IOOO would be raised. The District Board little anticipated the most generous response made to their appeal by members, and he thanked them all, especially the ladies, for the assistance they had given Ihe movement, fr There passed away at Goodna, Queensland, on April 11, after a long illness, Father Thomas Hayes, who for the past nineteen years had ministered to the spiritual wants of the Catholics of that town and district. The deceased priest was a native of Brisbane, his father in the early days being one of the leading citizens of that city, and doing much to advance civic interests. Father Hayes was the first pupil enrolled by the Christian Brothers in Gregory Terrace College. He afterwards went to All Hallows , in Dublin, to continue his studies, and filially to Innsbruck, on the Tyrol, where he was ordained. Representatives of what is brightest and best in Church and State, to the number of 500, assembled in the Cathedral Hall, Melbourne, on April 28, at the invitation;,: of his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, who, as president, was again the host at the gathering of the members of the Newman Society of Victoria (Catholic University students) and their friends. It was a happy thought (says the Advocate) to give to the society the name of one whose rare intellectual gifts were only equalled by his great personal sanctity. His grace was the life and soul of the brilliant gathering in the spendid hall which will stand for all time as a monument of his pastoral zeal and solicitude for his flock. The hall itself had been carpeted and otherwise decorated for the occasion, and under the glow of the electric light looked at its best. The Archbishop received his guests at the main entrance to the hall, and in his purple robes looked a worthy member of the hierarchy of Mother Church. Monsignor Bourke, of Perth, has retired from v the active work of the priesthood in West Australia. ‘ Never in the history of the Catholic Church in West Australia (says the IF.A. liecord) has a veteran laid rs ; de his armor with a more creditable, a more honorable, or a more valuable record of high and holy service, embracing over half a century of unceasing and unselfish work. What we now proudly term the Golden West was a despised and almost forsaken colony when Father Bourke first saw it in 1855. Fremantle and Perth were little better than rough, raw, ramshackle , villages. Young Bourke, who was then a student, aspiring to the priesthood, was told that he must teach school for a few years; he was quite agreeable. In winter and summer for three years he waded through the sands between Subiaco and Perth, and successfully fulfilled the duties of schoolmaster at the day school, then scarried on under _Bishop Serra, 0.5.8., in Perth. He was ordained priest on December 18, 1858, by Bishop Serra, in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, which still stands as the Children of Mary’s Chapel, Victoria square, Perth. After his ordination Father Bourke commenced in Perth that work, the fruits of which remain to the present time. In those early days the journeys were long and tedious, the priests few, and the work very trying; but T Father Bourke can look back with pleasure and satisfaction, on the noble and successful part he took in pioneering . Church work throughout West Australia. His labors, particularly at York, Northam, Newcastle, and the Vasse, are still remembered, and referred to with feelings of warm appreciation and gratitude. He was also manager and editor, of the 1F..4. liecord for some time,