Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 3 June 1915, Page 49

Intercolonial

The Rev.. Father E. McAuliffe, Catholic chaplain with the N.S.W. first "Expeditionary, Force, has- left Egypt for the firing/ line. .... •"''... . It has been learned with general regret that the illness from which his Grace the Archbishop of Adelaide has long been suffering has again assumed a serious phase, and grave fears as to the result are entertained. ■ ' A few Sundays ago his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne blessed and opened the new novitiate of the Sisters of St. Brigid, at Mentone. .. His Grace paid a warm tribute to .the Order, which is faithful to the best traditions of the institution founded by St. Brigid. The Right Rev. Dr. S. Reville, 0.5. A., Bishop of Sandhurst, celebrated his 71st birthday on the 7th ult., and a number of- congratulatory messages were received at the Palace from all parts of the State. Dr. Reville was born in Wexford in 1844, and came out to Bendigo with the Right Rev. Dr. Crane in 1875. In 1885 he was appointed Coadjutor-Bishop. Dr. Reville succeeded Dr. Crane as Bishop in 1901, and during the past fourteen years his skilful guidance of the affairs of the Church has won him the golden opinions of all. The ceremony of opening the St.* John's Hospital, established by the Nursing Sisterhood of St. John of God at Ballarat, was performed, on a recent Sunday by the Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Bishop of Ballarat. The hospital building is what has been hitherto known as Bailey's mansion. The sum of £4OOO was paid for the property, and half as much more has been expended in adapting the building for hospital purposes and to furnishing. When the whole is completed the total cost will approximate £BOOO. The Rev. Father J. O'Gorman (Adm., St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney), has received-a cable message to the effect that the Right Rev Monsignor O'Haran, with the Rev. Fathers W. Barry, J. J. O'Driscoll, and J. Rohan, had arrived safe in Glasgow after an exciting voyage. News is just to hand from Europe (says the Catholic /'/v.vv) that Brother Clement (Director of the Sacred Heart College, Auckland), has been appointed to succeed Brother Alphonsus as Provincial Superior of the Marist Brothers of Australasia. Before going to New Zealand, Brother Clement, who is a native of West Maitland, was for a number of years director of St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. Both at Hunters Hill and in Auckland he has shown that he is a man. of progressive ideas: and that, moreover, he has the necessary initiative and practical business capacity for carrying out those ideas. The Marist Brothers are fortunate in having so able a man to lead and guide them in their noble work. At a meeting held to celebrate the opening of the new Catholic tent, erected by the St. Vincent de Paul Society at the Liverpool Camp, his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney addressed several hundred Catholic troops' on the subject of drink, and asked them to pledge themselves to abstinence. ' 1 would exhort you not to be deceived,' said his Grace. ' I do not speak to you as men addicted to drink, but upon what is now a great public question. Abstinence on your part will be for your profit, and help to make you enjoy your service in the army. It will make you doubly, and trebly, useful, and strengthen you in your duty to your commanding officers and your country. Touch no intoxicating drink during the war. If you want to perish in the cold, take spirits. If you want to preserve your warmth, take only wholesome drinks. Now, you men who take alcohol, do without it, and you will find yourselves different and better men within three months. That has been the experience in warfare, both in hot and cold climates. If you want to keep your health and bodily comfort in this great gamefor war is a great gamecontent yourself with natural, wholesome drink.'