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Ilitef$Usie Great e;Iorts are being made this year to gather together the sum of k000,ocio to complete St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. Circulars have been sent all round the Commonwealth signal by We Eminence the soliciting subscriptions. Cardinal The foundation stone of the new additions was 1:11 during Congress week last year. The additions that are contemele..ed are extension of the Nee e, the building of another fecade, and the Wm: 1-tion of the two spires. *
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A large residential property in LPper Howth .rn, Mel .centaining over 20 rooms, and standing on
ground with t f-ontaee c.f 30o ft., on Haveloc.i-road hes been purchased by the community of the Sisters It will serve primof St. Joseph. arily as a residence for nuns, net it wilt also be a .ailable for the general pur.-os s of the community in Victoria. Here the nuns will me., -s their anneal i'etre Lt. The euitaig cost ori;inally o erele,iieo. The formal o..e..ing oy his Grace the Archbishoe of :,Iel ourne took place /. on Sunday, July' I . Up to date Ai'elaiele, or rather South Australia has contributed £220 12s. 9d. to the Irish Parliamentary *
The Rev. Fatter Arelii aid MacDonald of Cooma, who died in a Private hospital in that town at midday on Wednesda3 weeb, only survived his mother, who passed e way in Wellineten, II days. Si-- days before his death he suffered much internal pain, and the following day he entered the hospitee where his medical advisers diagnosed his malady as appendicitis. A third medical practitioner was summoned from Candelo, which is 77 miles distant, and, on his arrival shortly after midnight, he decided that an operation was the only chance-faint, though it was-of the patient's recovery. He operated, but the attack was so severe, that Father MacDonald never rallied, and died, as stated, fortified, of course, by the last rites of the Church.
Although the deceased reverend Fa-
ther was only a few months in Coo ma,
he was known and loved through the length and breadth of the district. He was a native of Kyneton, Victoria.-R.I.P.
The Very Rev. Father McGrath has been appointed Archdeacon of the Bathurst Diocese. He is an eminent Priest and a Patriotic Irishman. *
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At the little colony. of Abbottsford ed those who had that day eo hap- Father Lawless, C.M., (Superior of where the hundreds of the daughters ily responded to the call of God.- the Vineentians at Asbneld) has been of the Good Shepherd are devoting: `. Freeman'sJournal." appointed Provincial of the Order in * their lives to the uplifting of those Australia. Father Walsh, the Irish who have fallen on life's rough highSpeaking at the Communion lenae- Provincial -General, recently completway, and to the education of youth, fast of the Adelaide Catholic Club on ed his Australian visitation, and on a triple ceremony was recently pre- last Sunday week, Archbishop his departure a couple of weeks ago, sided over by the Very Rev. Bean O'Reilly said that with the exception was accompanied by Father Quinn, Phelan. V.G., when Miss M. Conroy. of a microscopic minority the nou- who, after many years missionary and Miss Emily Carrigan were re- Catholic citizens of South Australia, work be eonnection with Ashdeld, ceived as novices, the former taking had no desire to have the damns- has been transferred to Ireland. in religion, the name of Sister Mary tory clauses of the Oath retained. of St. Mildred, and the latter that To his mind the Oath contained all A fierce storm pasied over Sydney of Sister Mary of St. Lewis Bert- the elements of comedy ; cr there on thn inth. Heavy rains followed. rand. Sister Mary of St. Pierre would be all those elements if the The seas outside the Heads were parM'Hugh, Sister Mary of B. Margar- matters dealt with were not of such ticulaity heavy. Many vessels in the et Mary Alacoene Curtin, and Sister serious import. In not one of the Ifirbour broke from their moorings, Mary of the Immaculate Conception works df Gilbert and Sullivan was The damage done te propirtN was Corbett consecrated themselves by there such a .an end tangled socuriderabis. Roofs were lifted been. the annual vows of poverty, chasti- grow* of absurdities as that which dy from houses, and verandahs were ty, obedience and zeal for souls, to was furnished by the Coronation carried away. At Hurstville and serve the Good Shepherd and Sis- Oath. His Majesty was marls to 'Stine the waters found their way ter Mary of St. Ildephoneun Gleesoe, declare that he, a Protestant mon- into houses. Sister Mary of St. Marcella More, erch, had not rtsceived from the Pepe Sister Mary of St. Butane Cooney, in whom his Majesty did not believe Speaking at the annual dinner of Sister Mary of St. Viecent Ferrer a dispensation to lie. That was a the chimber of Ccmmeree on the Guerin, made their hot vows in per- ?diseensatien which every Catholic !nth, at. 'lvdnen, Mr. Wa le the Prepetuity. The Rev. Frank Cornell, enew the Pope had n -t a elenlow c.f e-i-r said it was intended to raise S.J., delivered the occaeionel ser- power to grant. the whole of the loan of Ceeko.ocio mon on the blessedreee of religious earmarked for Nailwaye, he New vocation and vows, and congratulatSonill Wale*, '
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The Socialist Conference which sat recently in Melbourne carried a resolution against Bible teaching in State Eithools.