Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1912, Page 59

Intercolonial

Mr. J , .M. Dodd, Mayor, of ■ Gundagai, recently made a handsome gift;, to St. Patrick’s Church, Gundagai, in the form of a bell. The presentation was an blaster gift, and the bell is much appreciated locally. ... On 'Easter Monday the Victorian State Governor John Fuller) opened the Druids’, gala and bazaar at the Exhibition Building, in aid of the St. Vincent’s Hospital. It is anticipated that £IO,OOO will be realised as a result' of the effort. i^ : ■ The new cathedral, which is being erected in Armiky his Lordship Bishop O’Connor, will be the turd largest in Australia when completed early in October next. Prelates from all, parts of the Commonwealth will be at the opening ceremonies, which are to be on an. elaborate scale, marking the achievement of a great work in a suitable -and fitting manner. • At the annual meeting of the A. H. C. Guild in Sydney the other day, the Warden-General reported that the membership stood at 4682? whilst the funds amounted to £35,000. There was an increase of ; 565 in the membership last year. Mr. P. S. Cleary the new Warden-General of the guild, is a native of Victoria, but has lived in Sydney for some years. He is am active figure in all Catholic and Irish - movements but it is as a writer he is most widely known (says the Cathohc Press). On European affairs he is an accurate authority. He speaks and reads French and German, and is as well acquainted with religious and political movements on the Continent as in Australia. General regret was felt in Catholic circles throughout Australia at the news of the death of Rev. Charles U Connell,.. S.J., which occurred suddenly on April 2 at the Presbytery, Flenferrie, Victoria. Father O’Connell was _ about to leave the presbytery to attend 8 o clock Mass, and while walking down the passage was seized with a heart attack, to which he had been subject for years. He was placed in a chair, but died almost immediately. Father O’Connell was 72 years f ? ge l S e o a l born in the city of Cork. - Educated at first at St. Sulpice s, Paris, he afterwards completed his studies in Maynooth College, Ireland, where he was a contemporary student with the Archbishon of Melbourne and the Bishop of Ballarat; After being a priest in the secular mission in the diocese of Cork he joined the Jesuits in 1871. Before coming out to Ausxtraha in the early eighties, Father O’Connell taught in Clongowes Wood College. The most of his time in Austiaha was occupied in teaching. He was lecturer on mental and moral philosophy at St. John’s College, Sydney , and also taught at Riverview College, Sydney * The Rev. Father Pigot, S.J., who is in charge of Lie seismological observatory at St. Ignatius’ College Riverview, arrived in Melbourne on April 9, after his trip to Europe, undertaken to see the members of his ami y in Ireland, and also in connection with the work of the observatory. Amongst the European observatories he was to have visited was the Pultowa Observatory, St Petersburg. Prince Gallitzin, direc-tor-.m-chief of the Russian Seismological Department, and president-elect of the "International Seismological Conference, sent him a pressing invitation to make the visit, and Father Pigot intended to go, but the Russian Government interfered. There is. an old prohibition against members of his Order entering Russia, and when application was made by the British foreign Office that it should not be enforced to' prevent a purely scientific visit of a few days’ duration, the authorities.declined to waive the law in favor of Father rigot. Eater on, however, permission was granted on the representation of , Prince Gallitzin, but Father of lg tha privilege 0 illness, wasomable to take advantage