Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 17 June 1915, Page 55

Intercolonial

§' The Rev. F. D. Kilgallin, of Cessnock, is seriously ill, and but slight hopes are / entertained of his recovery.

At the Broadmeadows encampment, Victoria, Catholics are erecting a solid building for the religious and social requirements of their soldiers. .The contract price amounts to £721, and already about £SOO is in hand.

- The collection in aid of the Catholic College at Melbourne University is progressing satisfactorily. The amount actually in hand now exceeds £15,000, a sum of about £2OOO having been received in the last week in May. j;;’ The total amount promised is rapidly approaching £50,000. It is expected that the full sum necessary will be received before the end of the year, thus fulfilling the conditions of the generous offer of £30,000 from an anonymous donor.

His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate will pay his first official visit to Brisbane in July next. In order to make arrangements for a fitting reception a meeting of the clergy and laity was held recently. His Grace Archbishop Duhig, who presided, said that the Apostolic Delegate was a very distinguished man, as besides being a doctor of theology and canon law, he was also a doctor of civil lawhe was both a high ecclesiastic and a statesman, and had snent several vears-iu America.

The church at Mega long Valley (N.S.W.) was completely destroyed by fire recently, and Rev. Father Peoples, who was sleeping on the premises at the time, barely escaped with his life. Father Peoples made the journey from Katoomba to celebrate Mass at Megalong. During the night he was awakened owing to the suffocating condition of the room, and found it full of smoke. • He had only just time to get out into the open airjjefore the building was ablaze from end to end.

Mr. Patrick O’Brien, of The Nest, Leura, has offered his Sydney suburban residence at Woolwich for the purposes of a hospital for wounded soldiers. The house, which is beautifully situated on the water front of Lane Cove River, at Woolwich Point (says the 'a/Itolic Press), would accommodate about 40 beds, and should make an ideal convalescent home or hospital. The premises will be handed over by Mr. O’Brien as they now stand, with furniture and all other appurtenances thereto, for a period of twelve months from date of occupation, together with free gas and water for that term. Mr. O’Brien has already given £2OOO to the war funds.

After the celebration of High Mass at St. Carthage’s Cathedral, Lismore, on Sunday, May 30, Mr. T. J. Mclntyre, of Marlivale, and Mr. J. J. Kissane, of Casino, received from his Lordship Bishop Carroll the decorations recently bestowed upon them by the Holy Father. Mr. Mclntyre was made a Knight of St. Gregory, and on Mr. Kissane the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice was conferred. Congratulating the recipients of the honors, Bishop Carroll referred to their services to the Church, and pointed out how Mr. Mclntyre gave the land on which the church in Marlivale stands, and shouldered his share in building St. Carthage’s Cathedral. Mr. Kissane, too, had supported his words with deeds, and with his partner had established a bursary at St. Joseph’s College for the boys of the Lismore diocese.

On the day after the arrival in Queensland of his Excellency the Governor, Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, G.C.M.G., C. 8., he was the guest of honor at the Queensland Irish Association's annual banquet on St. Patrick's eve. No incident on that occasion excited

more enthusiasm than the chairman’s announcement

that his Excellency was an Irishman, and would become a member of the association. It was there and then decided that he should be made an honorary life member of the association, but it was subsequently discovered that an amendment of the constitution of the association was necessary to give effect, to this decision. Accordingly, at a largely-attended special meeting of the

■ ■ •' * ■ ;■ -V-:•>Vi--.v•> vs-vE^yv c ;; z.z*. association held recently, the necessary amendment was unanimously 1- approved, and later the executive met and unanimously elected the Governor as an honorary life 1 . > ;• f- .K. ■ • J **" ■ !9 '-'SS member.; ; . ,• . v: ■ ■ ■ ■> - » ... i

Speaking at St. Brigid’s Church, North Fitzroy, a few ' Sundays ago, Rev. Dr. Kelly said he ; had been ’ informed that many Catholics ..'were-resigning their membership of branches of the Political Labor Council as a result of the action of the , recent confei’ence of that body in deciding that members of other organisations which selected or~supported candidates for public positions were not eligible for membership. He had heard that 35 Catholics had resigned from one Teague alone. That was against the advice of every speaker at the recent monster meeting of Catholics at the Melbourne Town Hall. Their advice was that Catholics should not leave the labor leagues " until they were put out, but should remain in them and defend the Church’s position on the education question from within the Labor movement. If they were put out they would then realise their position, and act accordingly. :%