Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 8 June 1911, Page 1075

Intercolonial

The new brick church at Wallabaclah, near. Tam worth, was opened and blessed by the Right Rev. Dr.' O’Connor, Bishop of Armidale, on Sunday, May 14. His Grace the Archbishop, of Melbourne, accompanied by the Very Rev. Dean Phelan, Y.G., attended the farewell levee, given by his Excellency the Governor' at Government -House on the 18th ult. The Hon. J. G. Duffy, K.S.G. (Executive Councillor), was also amongst the numerous company, which was representative of the public, professional, and commercial life of Melbourne. : His Grace" Archbishop Kelly opened and blessed St. . Joseph’s Schoblhall at Wollongong on Sunday, May 21, in the presence of a vast- concourse of parishioners and-local’ residents. The Cardinal was to have been present, but another engagement prevented his attendance. His Grace was assisted by the Rev. Fathers Walsh, Dunn, and Lonergan, of the Wollongong parish, in the religious ceremonies. ;At the conclusion of the Archbishop’s address £350 was collected towards wiping’ off the debt on the new hall. In addition to the proposed celebration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the Sunday following the Coronation, arrangements have been made for a children's demonstration in the Cathedral on June 22, the day of the Coronation (says the Advocate). About 2000 children attending the senior classes in the Catholic primary schools of the city, and suburbs will take part, and the songs and choruses. ; pn ; .tho programme will be .exclusively confined to the Empire and Australia. Addresses will also probably be given. " The' programme will be sent to the country schools, and carried out there wholly or in part, according to local circumstances. Mrs. Bridget M'Grath, of Spencer street, Melbourne, widow, who_ died on April 14 last, by her will, dated November 15, 1906, left estate valued at £2523,. to be disposed of as follows :—Cottage at 73 i Punt road, St. Kilda, to St. Vincent’s Hospital; cottage at 75 Punt road, St. Kilda, to the" St. Vincent de Paul’s Orphanage for Boys; cottage at 79 Punt road, St. Kilda, to the St, Joseph’s Home for Destitute Children. r The testatrix directed that her personal estate be sold;; and that out of the proceeds £3OO should bo paid to the building fund of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Church, West Melbourne; £SO the Little Sisters of the Poor; and - £SO to the : Sisters of Charity; East Melbourne. The residue of the estate is bequeathed to friends of the testatrix. ■ i ■ i.'i^ -uv v>J. W The Rev. A. L. Cortie, S.J., of Stonyhurst College, England, who was selected by the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, England,* to be chief of the Government official expedition to the Southern Hemisphere in connection with the recent solar eclipse, is now the guest of the . Jesuit,.: Fathers at Riverview (says the Freeman’s Journal). The "expedition attracted world-wide interest, and the results of its observation were awaited with anxiety by astronomers. It was, therefore, only natural that a large gathering attended Father Cortie’s lecture on the solar eclipse, illustrated with lantern slides, in , the College Theatre, Riverview. A special' boat conveyed the guests of the Jesuit Fathers to the picturesque grounds of the college, where for an hour and a-half they listened with rapt attention to the details of Father Cortie’s 28,000 miles trip for possibly a three and a-half minutes’ (actually a minute and a-half) observation of the solar phenomena. Right Rev. Mgr. Fowler, of the United States, who some years ago spent some time in Sydney, and delighted largo congregations with his beautiful and eloquent sermons, passed, through the city recently on his . way to Manila (says the Freeman’s Journal). While here he . was received by his Eminence the Cardinal, whom he said he found looking better and younger than when he saw him last, seven years ago. He also called to see his old friend, Monsignor O’Haran, at St. Vincent’s Private .Hospital, and was the first one permitted to see and speak with the patient since his advent to the hospital. He found him looking remarkably well for one who had gone through such a, severe illness. It is a source of regret ,that . the, Monsignor could riot have remained here long enough to have given one of those eloquent and soul-thrilling discourses that have made him so popular everywhere he has been. The happy inspiration of his Eminence the Cardinal of inaugurating Australian Day on the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians was joyously received by the schools throughout the archdiocese (says the Freeman’s Journal). Australia’s National Hymn was a patriotic feature of the celebrations; and right well did young Australians vocally -render., homage to the glowing sentiments contained in the Very Rev. Father O’Reilly’s patriotic composition. Generally the : day ’was observed as a holiday. In years to be, the fruition, of the Cardinal’s, work will be realised, ;when,, speeding on to its glorious destiny, Australia will look hack with pride to the " year 1911. Speaking at the. Cathedral Schools’ annual meeting the Cardinal, said for the first time the fete was inaugurated for the children as a real Australians It was most desirable that the children should have one day to show their .enthusiasm and love for their native land Some of the newspapers said that fair play had not been shown except to those who were ’from" Ireland. England however, has St. George’s Day, Scotland St. Andrew’s’ and it was only right Australia should have its own day ’