Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 10 August 1911, Page 1547

Intercolonial

The Sisters of Mercy at All Hallows’ sustained a sad bereavement through the death of Sister M. Francis de Sales (Scally), says the Brisbane Age. The deceased nun had almost reached the golden jubilee of her novitiate, having been received in Ireland close on fifty years ago. ■ . .

Rev,. Father Grogan, of the Redemptorist Order, arrived in Brisbane the other day from Manila by the Japanese mail steamer. Father Grogan, who was tn route to Perth, has been engaged in missionary work in the Philippine Islands for the past four years. By the same vessel also, Brother Bartholomew Lally, a lay member of the. Order, was a passenger.

A boys’ orphanage for the Sisters of Nazareth has been commenced at Sebastopol, in the diocese of Ballarat, where the nuns already conduct a home for the aged poor, and orphaned and neglected children. In connection with the new orphanage, which will be ready for occupation in twelve months’ time, there will be a farm, where the lads will be taught practical agriculture', the land for this purpose having been donated by his Lordship Bishop Higgins.

News has been received in Sydney that Mrs. Dalton, widow of the late Hon. Thomas Dalton, K.C.S.G., died on board a steamer whilst on its way from Brisbane to Sydney: Mrs. Dalton had been on a health trip to China and Japan. She was a sister of the Lite Father Walsh, of Townsville, who was at the time of his death' Vicar-General of the diocese of Rockhampton. Mrs. Dalton was always most generous to charities, and a leader in all movements having for their purpose the advancement of the Church.

By the will of the late Mr. Thomas Walsh, of Toowoomba (writes the Brisbane correspondent of the Catholic. Press) bequests of £2OO each have been made to the Sisters of Mercy at Toowoomba and Stanthorpe; St. John’s School, Sydney; Gort, County Sligo, Ireland ; Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland the Sisters of Charity, Ballaghadeidn, County Mayo; St. Joseph’s Union, New York; St. Mary’s College, Rosebank, Sydney the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Waratah, N.S.W.; the Lewisham Hospital, Sydney; the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane; St. Ann’s IndusDual School, Brisbane; the Nudgee Orphanage; the Magdalen Asylum, Wooloowin; and the Convent of Mercy, Stubberan, Ireland.

At the University Primary Examinations the Catholic schools have as usual done remarkably well, but it was at the Federal Public Service Examinations that the Christian Brothers’ College scored (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman’s Journal Two years ago their pupils swept the board at this examination, which is open to all candidates. In the recent test James Raymond O’Keeffe headed the list of successful pupils, with 2283 marks. He is from the North Melbourne College, conducted by the Christian Brothers. The Parade, and other of their schools did remarkably well. The Catholic colleges won 15out <)j the first 20 places. When his Grace the Archbishop made the appeal to the faithful of the diocese for funds to complete St. Virgil’s College (says the Tasmanian Monitor), ■ he announced to them in a letter, which was a touching tribute to' his venerable predecessor, that the college would be the memorial to the late Archbishop. It was just the kind of memorial that Archbishop Murphy would have himself desired, for it was the work upon which he had set his heart, and_ to which he had devoted all the energies of his last years. No more fitting tribute, therefore, could have been paid to his memory. His Grace the Archbishop has just had placed on the recently completed wing a marble tablet commemorative of his predecessor’s work in connection with St. Virgil’s.