Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 28 August 1913, Page 47

Intercolonial

V The Rev, Father Cleary,- S.J., who has been stationed at Norwood for some years, has been transferred to Seven;, Hills, (says the' Adelaide' Southern Cross). Rev. Father Gwynne, ‘ S.J., ' who has been,fab Seven Hills for the past, couple of years, fills; his/ place at Norwood for the present. . ‘ : In connection with the jubilee of the foundation of the town of Sale, numerous celebrations,’' both official and religious, were held. In St. Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday, August 10, a Missa Cantata was sung, , and at its-conclusion an eloquent discourse was delivered by the Right Rev. Dr. Phelan, Bishop of Sale. Among the passengers who left Adelaide by the Orama was Mr. John Fitzherbert, 8.A., Double Firstclass Honorsman of Sydney University. Mr. Fitzherbert, in addition to the travelling. scholarship awarded him, has the distinction of being the first Australian to secure a Trinity College (Cambridge) Scholarship. Before leaving Sydney a dinner party was given in , Mr. Fitzherbert’s honor at St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview, of which he is an ex-student. The following letter has been received by Dr. N. M. O’Donnell, Melbourne, from the Irish Parliamentary leader:—‘My dear Doctor O’Connell, —I have today (July 9) received your cable, conveying congratulations from Victoria on the second passage of the Home Rule Bill, and the information that you are mailing £4OO for the Home Rule fund. I am handing* your cablegram to the press for publication, and I am sure it will be read with delight by our. people at home and. abroad. You will be pleased to learn that the position of the Home Rule cause is now as hopeful as it possibly can be, and that, so far as one can foresee, the Home Rule Bill will become the law of tho land in May of next year.’ There was a large gathering at the opening and blessing of the extension of St. Fiacre’s Church and the new presbytery at Leichhardt on Sunday. afternoon, August 10. The Archbishop of Sydney officiated, and he was accompanied by the Rev. Father < Michael Sherin. On arrival they were met by the Rev.. Father Jas. O’Reilly, who has charge of the parish of, Leichhardt. In his financial statement at the ceremony Father O’Reilly said that the contract price for the additions to the church was £1998, and the seating cost £l7B. The presbytery cost £1545, making the total expenditure £3721. Since September last they had raised by a bazaar, by the collection at the laying of the foundation stones, by entertainments and house to house collections, the sum l of £I4OO. That left them with a debt on their undertaking of £2321. Before they undertook the buildings they had, an overdraft of £1867 at the Australian Bank of Commerce, making their present debt £4198. The foundation stone for the enlarged building of the Church of the Holy Angels, Balaclava, , was laid by the Archbishop of Melbourne a few Sundays ago. His Grace congratulated the parishioners on tho fact that they were going to erect a, hall for literary., and social purposes, and in the near future a school,' at which the youngest children would be able to receive secular and religious instruction. Religious instruction in the school—that was, the definite and dogmatic teaching of religion Archbishop maintained, must always be the foundation of the national as well as of individual welfare. How impressed Catholics were with the truth of this might be, judged from the' fact that wherever a Catholic school was opened' ' (even though it might be in a locality where apparently there would be but comparatively few Catholic children to attend it) that school in a brief time would become well filled, in many instances over-crowded even. If anything were required to prove the depth and sincerity of the belief of Catholics in the absolute necessity of providing religious instruction during' the school years of their children, it would only be necessary to point to the vast sums they had expended towards this object. A sum of nearly £6oo‘was subscribed towards liquidating the debt that will be incurred in enlarging the building. , ' :, ,