Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 14 December 1911, Page 2555

Intercolonial

Mr. T-. J. Dalton, K.C.S.G. (Vice-Consul for Spain), has returned to Sydney after a holiday trip in New Zealand, where he visited the chief tourist centres. The Very Rev. Father O’Gorman, of East Maitland, has been granted 12 months’ leave of absence by the Right Rev. Dr. Dwyer, and early in March it is his intention to leave Australia on a visit to Ireland. The Sisters of the Good Samaritan have acquired the beautiful Bishop’s Court property at Randwick, hitherto owned by the Anglican Church and used as the episcopal residence. It will now be employed as a novitiate for the Good Samaritan Order. The Presentation Nuns celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of. their arrival in Lismore recently, everyone helping to make the occasion a fitting recognition of the grand work they have accomplished on the Northern Rivers. The Melbourne Advocate reports the sudden death of Captain John Lynch, G.E., a highly respected resident of Smythesdale, where he had resided for 36 years. He was 55 years of age and- unmarried. • The deceased gentleman was a native of Ballarat, and a graduate of the Melbourne University. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. John Lynch, who was captain of the pikemen in the Eureka Stockade fight. He was a brother of Mr. Arthur Lynch, M.P. for West Clare, and Dr. •Peter Lynch, of Carlton, Dr. Maurice Lynch, Melbourne, and of Mr. Thomas Lynch, of the Government Civil Service, Western Australia. His Grace the Archbishop, who was accompanied by Dean Phelan, V.G. (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman’ s Journal), opened a garden fete in aid of St. Andrew’s Orphanage, Bendigo, on November 22. Nearly <£15,000 has been expended on this institution, which is conducted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The Bishop of Bendigo, Right Rev. Dr. Reviile, 0.5. A., and a large gathering of the clergy, public men, and laity were at the function. Public men eulogised Catholic charity in providing for the wants of the orphan, the aged, and infirm. The fete is an annual fixture and realises about £IOOO for the maintenance fund. The Registrar of Friendly Societies has issued his report for the year 1910 (writes the Brisbane correspondent of the Sydney Freeman’s Journal). The record of the Hibernian Society, which now consists of three separately registered districts, show the following sound position: Membership, 3943 males, 273 females capital, £54,050; benefits paid, £11,871; capital per financial member, £l3 6s sd. The three districts are not connected with each other, and the record of the Brisbane District, which extends from Mount Perry on the north to Stanthorpe on the south and to Charleville on the west, shows a very satisfactory result for the year’s operations, there being an increase in membership for the period of 219 males and 52 females. The membership at the end of the year was 3303 males and 216 females.

On Sunday, November 26, his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 350 candidates at St. Michael’s Church, North Melbourne. After the ceremony his , Grace delivered an address to the parishioners, in which he urged them to support the movement for the introduction of healthy Catholic literature into their households, in view of the fact that so much current literature was pernicious, and often specially anti-Catholic in its tendencies. The Archbishop suggested in this matter North Melbourne might well follow the example of Malvern, a parish which had been systematically canvassed by zealous workers in the interests of pure reading generally, and more especially of the publications of the Catholic Truth Society. Their pastor, Bather Norris, was secretary of the society, and what had been accomplished in this direction "in Malvern therefore, could certainly be repeated in St. Michael's parish.