Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 1 May 1913, Page 51

Intercolonial

The Very Rev: John Ryan, S.J",, has b*en appointed Superior of the Jesuit Fathers in Australia. - His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has appointed, his Grace the Coadjutor-Archbishop VicarGeneral. , ■,-,' ■ ■•.. .'..",.'--., \'.L,. .' c i; -£,;_■ •/'.. ' <:;•:.. The late Judge Casey, of Melbourne, left £IOOO to form a nucleus of a fund for the building of a Catholic college in connection with Melbourne "University. ™ n /^ pril 10 the Sisfcers of the Little Company of Mary (Nursing Sisters), at Lewisham Hospital/received news by cable of the death of Rev. Mother Mary foundress and Mother-General of the Order. Mother Mary died at the head house of the Order. His Lordship the Bishop of Armidalehas received a beautiful and touching autograph letter from his Holiness the Pope, congratulating him on the completion and opening, free of debt, of his Cathedral. The letter was forwarded by his Eminence Cardinal Merry del Val, Papal Secretary of State. ; >*'-] * A + u C ™ e S ° fthe Sisters of the Good: Shepherd from the Mother House, Abbotsford, Melbourne; will shortly be opened in Sydney. The Sisters have acquired a valuable property at Ashfield. . At Abbotsford they shelter over 800 inmates. They have branches at Oakleigh, South Melbourne, Bendigo, - Christchurch, Hobart, and Perth, West Australia. ■■' ■ - v -".<o The Church of SS. Peter and Paul, South Melbourne, which had been improved and added to, was solemnly blessed and opened on Sunday, April 13 by his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne. The additions which practically complete the edifice, and include Mr* PrieStS and boys ; sacristies, cost „.. . The A ?? t . , Rev Augustin Dontenwill, 0.M.1., Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais (Syria), and SuperiorGeneral of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has arrived in Fremantle for the purpose of* holding an official visitation of the Order under his control .He is accompanied by the Very Rev. Father Charles H Lytton, of Dublin, and late Rector of St. Joseph's College, Colombo. r The annual district meeting of the H.A C B Society of Victoria was opened in the Cathedral Hail, Melbourne, on April 16. ..The District Board in their annual report congratulated Members on the splendid results shown for the year, both in funds and membership. The value of funds of the society in the State amounts to close on £84,000, being an increase during the 12 months of £5545. The toll membership of th! Society in the State (all classes) is:—Male branches, 8542; ladies branches, 2405; juvenile branches, 94; grand total, 11,041, showing an increase of 424 members for tiie year.

- His Grace Archbishop Mannix, in reply to an address of wecome presented to him by the Newman Society in the Cathedral Hall, Melbourne, dealt in the mam with the education question. Short as was his acquaintance with local conditions, he said he was aware that Archbishop Carr had given much anxious thought to the objects of the society, and it would not be his fault if Catholics did not in due time—and .the sooner the better—take their proper place in the University of Melbourne. Catholics should be allowed to enter into free and open competition with all comers They claimed no privilege, they asked for no exclusive or preferential right, and they were prepared to win on their merits or not at all. Surely logic and fair Play were on the side of the Catholics, and. logic and fair play would some time prevail in Australia. Scholarships established out of the public purse ought to be earmarked for ability and learning and the promise of future achievement, whether it came from a public high school or a Christian Brothers' College. To apply these prizes to bolster up a party or a party system was indefensible educationally and politically. Catholics would never be satisfied until the last vestige of sectarian pnvilege was wiped off the statute books of State and Commonwealth.