Distinguished Irishmen in New Zealand.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1773, 18 December 1885, Page 3

Distinguished Irishmen in New Zealand.

A contributor to the Dublin Freeman's Journal, in a recent issue of that paper speaking of the Irish in New Zealand, ob--rv - : “Of the distinguished Irish blood now in the c-douv, (here is the Governor ; Hon Mr Ballauee, 'll .l.dcr of Native Affairs; Hon Mr Tuie, Minister of Justice ; Hou I'. Buckley, Colonial Secretary ; Sir George Grey. Irish on his mother's side, formerly Governor and Premier, now a leading member of the Legislature ; the Hon Edwa’d FitzGerald, lately Auditor-General, tl e leading orator of 'the colony ; the Eight E; v Edward Stewart, D.D., T.C.D., Protestai t Bishop of Waipu ; Mr O’Connor, formerly Attorney-General ; Sir Maurice O’Eork •, Speaker of the Lower House ; Hon P. Dignan, M L.C. ; Hon H. B. Gresson, formerly judge oi the Supreme Court ; Archdeacon Mannsell, translator of the Bible into Maori ; Hon Dr Grace, one of the first Physicians in the colony, brother of Mr Grace, Mayor of New York. There r.re twenty graduates of T.C.D., Clergymen of the Protestant Church. Alt the Roman Catholic Bishops but two a-e Irish ; and so are nearly all the Priests, and now both continue to be largely recruited from Ireland as young New Zealand of both sexes, like young Australia, contribute not a few to the religious orders. Of prominent Irishmen who did good work in New Zealand, but are now far away from it, may be mentioned the leading spirit of the successful Canterbury settlement, Mr Godley. With him in that important undertaking, solely composed of members of the Church of England, were many from the North of Ireland, in compliment, it is to be supposed, to whom some of the principal streets in Christchurch are called Armagh, Kilmore, Tuam, and Cashel streets, and in Cathedral square stands the only statute the colony possesses, to the Irishman Godley. ’