The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . he work of organization, carrying on foryears long and exhausting visitations, in which thebare earth was often his only bed, and sardines anddamper his principal food. With the sanction ofthe Government, he organized the Queensland Immi-gration Society, which brought settlers (chiefly IrishCatholics) to the colony. Considerable numbers ofthese were placed on land granted for the purpose bythe Government. Racial and sectarian passionstook alarm
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . he work of organization, carrying on foryears long and exhausting visitations, in which thebare earth was often his only bed, and sardines anddamper his principal food. With the sanction ofthe Government, he organized the Queensland Immi-gration Society, which brought settlers (chiefly IrishCatholics) to the colony. Considerable numbers ofthese were placed on land granted for the purpose bythe Government. Racial and sectarian passionstook alarm. A clamour arose that the colony wasbeing inundated with Irish Catholics, and that itwould soon deserve to be called, not Queensland,but Quinns Land The Immigration Societybent before the storm and dissolved in 1865, afterhaving enriched Queensland with ten shiploads ofpicked colonists. Dr. OQuinn was a man of ripe intellectual cultureand of much foresight and administrative established a Catholic paper, The Australian,founded two orphanages and an industrial school,wrought strenuously in the matter of church- and BRISCHAR 790 BRISTOL. All-Hallowss Convent School,Brisbane school-extension, erected the handsome cathedral ofSt. Stephen, and created and conserved rich educa-tional and other endowments. State aid was finallywithdrawn from all denominational schools ?with theclose of the year 1880; but at his death, 18th August,, there were 52 Catholic primary schools in the diocese, attendedby 6,510 Pro^acariateof North Queens-land Avas formedout of the Dioceseo f Brisbane i n1876, and that ofRockhampton in1882. On theISthof June,1882,the Right Rever-end Robert Dunnewas consecratedBishop of Bris-bane in successionto Dr. his solid schol-arship and hisability as a writerDr. Dunne ren-dered importantservices as secre-tary to the Plenary Council of Australasia held inSydney in 1885. At the request of that council,Queensland was in 1887 created a s
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