ARCHBISHOP CLUNE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 46

ARCHBISHOP CLUNE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, January 11 It is interesting to note (says the Dominion) that the Dr Clune who has been conducting the peace negotiations between the Sinn Fein Party in Ireland and the British Government, and whoso sincere work has been so heartily praised by the Prime Minister (Mr Lloyd George) and others, was formerly a priest of the Redemptorist Order in Wellington. It was Father Clune, now Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia, who established tho order in New Zealand, and through whose efforts tho Church of St. Gerard was erected at the top of Hawker 6treet some 15 years ago. Dr Clune, who is a County Clare man, was in Sydney, before coming to Wellington, for a period of six years. 110 was then transferred to Perth, where he was subsequently elevated to the archbishopric of that city. Dr Clune is well remembered by many of Wellington’s Roman Catholic citizens as a zealous and scholarly churchman, with a wide outlook and a humane disposition.