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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 81 (Supplement)

Six nuns, Sisters of Nazareth, arrived from Engl and by the lonic last week They are to work in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, and left for their new home last night hy the Mararoa. This' will be the first establishment of this order in New Zealand; but a branch house has been in existence for some years in Ballarat. The Headquarters are in Hammersmith, London, and branches have been established in various parts of the United Kingdom. There are five houses of the order in South Africa. The work of the Sisters of Nazareth is. very much like that done by the Little Sisters of the Poor, but in addition to the relief of the aged poor they perform the duty of assisting orphan and destitute children. The order has several industrial schools- under its charge, where children are taught trades and otherwise equipped for the battle of life. Tlie rev mother in charge of the New Zealand house. Mother de Pazzi, who arrived yesterday with the other five nuns, was for eleven years in South Africa, and was one of Ihe nursing sisters stationed in Johannesburg during tlie war. The Dean of Bendigo, tlie Very Rev J. C. MacCullagh, is in a very unsatisfactory state of health, and arrangements have been made . tor the discharge of his official duties so that ho may have a trip to New Zealand. A cablegram from London states that A. If. Buffov accompanies Shrubb, the English athlete, on his visit to the colonies.

Mr James Temple Fisher, who was Postmaster-General in the Grey Ministry, died at Christchurch last week, aged seventy-six years. Deceased was a native of Sandwich, Kent, and before coming to Lyttelton in tlie Charlotte Jane ' served several years in the British navy. He took up farming at Heathcote, which constituency he represented for a. number of years. He leaves seven sons and one daughter. Olio son is Mr W. S. Fisher, clerk at. tlie Christchurch Magistrate’s Court. The Bishop of Melbourne arrived at the Bluff last week by the Warrimoo from Hobart. He will remain in New Zealand until the end of January. Miss Freeman, 8.A., of Girton College, Dunedin and Christchurch, returned by the lonic from a visit to England.

Tlie death is announced of Mr W. H. Gaw, lately chief railway traffic.manager for the colony. Mr Gaw, who was for many years a prominent railway official in New Zealand, resigned from tho service last year, and went to live in the Auckland district, where he died on Monday. The news of his death will be received with regret by railway men .throughout- ‘the colony. Probate has been granted in the estate of George Adams, the promoter of “TattersalFs” sweeps. Tlie estate (says a cablegram from Hobart) is valued at £130,000 personalty. Mr J. M. Johnston, of Palmerston North, who returned last week from a trip to Great Britain, visited Lord llanfurly’s seat at Dungannon. Ireland. Mi* Johnston was unwell during -several months of his sojourn in Knglaud, but has now regained his health.