H.A.C.B.S.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 375, 25 June 1880, Page 16

H.A.C.B.S.

BT. JOSEPH'S BBANCH, NO. 73, DUNEDIN. The half-yearly meeting of the above branch was held on last Monday evening, the 21st inst. The President, Bro. C. O'Driscoll ia the chair, and about thirty members were present. The chief business consisted in the election of officers for the ensuing half-year, which resulted as follows :—: — President : Bro. S. Whitty was elected without opposition. Vice-President : Bro. J. J. Crofts being the only candidate, was declared elected. Secretary : Bros. Cunningham and Crofts were both nominated, and after balloting, Bro. Cunningham was declared duly elected. Treasurer, : Bro. M. Connellan was re-elected unopposed. Warden :' Bros. D. Malone and Stent were candidates for this office. On a ballot being taken, Bro. Malone was elected. Guardian : The same members were nominated for this, but as Bro. Malone had been elected Warden, he retired in favour of Bro. Stent. Sick Visitors : Bros. J. Dillon and S. Whitty were elected. Bro. Cunningham having been elected Secretary, his office as auditor was declared vacant, for which vacancy Bros. C. O'Driscoll and R A. Dunne were pominated. The election will take place next meeting. The installation- of the officers elected then took place, the retiring President officiating as installing officer. After the ceremony, Bro. Crofts proposed and Bro. Dillon seconded a vote of thanks to the past officers, and Bro. O'Driscoll in particular. The motion was carried unanimously, and Bro. O'Driscoll replied on behalf of himself and retiring officers. The doctor and chemist were re-elected for the next half-year without opposition. Mr. A. Corrigan was elected and duly initiated a full benefit member. It was decided that the committee appointed for considering amendments to General Laws furnish their report on next meeting, the sth prox., when members are earnestly requested to attend.

The New Orleans Morning Star says it is reported that Monsignor Capel is about to leave England for the United States, Cardinal McCloskey having offered him a theological professorship in. the Ecclesiastical College, New York. The London correspondent of the Cork Examiner says that his difficulties were caused by miscalculations of the success of the Catholic College at Kensington, an enterprise which he pursued with too much zeal. The Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Gainsboro, and others, offered to pay off Monsignor Capel's liabilities, but lie refused the offer. A few days since, says a despatch from Mumfordsville, Ky., Thomas Boyd, a clock-tinker, claiming Belfast, Ireland, as his home, came to that place and had a notice published in the Hart County Democrat that he would jump off the Tailway bridge across Green Eiver, a structure one hundred and twenty-five feet high. At ten o'clock on Sunday, the 11th ult., people began to gather from all points in the country. By twelve o'clock at least one thousand people had collected, eager and anxious to see the unparalleled feat. The immense gathering of people, so far beneath that they looked like pygmies, was moved by intense feeling, and becasae^bushed and silent. One, two, three, and the daring diver, springing head foremost, dashed one hundred and twenty feet down into the water below. For a few seconds he was underneath the water ; but as soon as he appeared above the surface swimming lustily, a tremendous cheer went up from both banks of the river, and the canoe that paddled him ashore was met by hundreds of excited people, and Boyd's cap was filled to overflowing with silver. He is the same man that jumped off the Ohio Falls Bridge ; but this is at least thirty ! feet higher, and is decidedly the highest jump and the most daring 1 feat of the kind ever performed in America.