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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 29, 16 November 1894, Page 18

The Rev Father Ddran arrived in Dunedin by the s. s. Manspouri from Auckland on Sunday. In the evening the rev gentleman seed as celebrant at Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament in Sb Joseph's catbedral. Father Djran will preach this (Wednesday) evening at the meeting in the cathedral of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Parpetual Succour, and to-morrow (Thurs-iay) morning, at 10 '/clock, bolemn office for the dead and High Mass of Requiem will be offered for tha repo39~ of the soul of TTSther~S9rabhim C.P, anl those of the other Catholics who perished in ths wreck of the Wairarapa.

Sunday nexr, as no doubt our readers remember, will be the great day at Oamaru. The new church is welt worth a visit, being quite exceptional in its style in the Australasian colonies. But we Dccl hardly enlarge on tbe attractions of the event. The interest fzcited by it is already as high as it well can be. The Very Ber Father Hilary, C.P., we may add, his arrived to preach the sermon in the forenoon aod everything is in readiness. We expect next week to report a magnificent eucc-68.

Among the pupils of tbe Catholic schools who passed tha recent musical examinations of Trinity College were the Misses Annie Cimeno and Jesßie McDonald, pupils of St Joseph's Convent of Mercy, Blenheim, who each gained in senior honours 93 marks — and Miss Mary J. ScanloD, who guined in the senior pass, 82 marks. This convent nas always been very successful. Last year tbeir per centage was the highest in New Zealand.

A Westpobt correspondent refers as follows to the late Father M jrrissey wbose death, he says, is regretted by all, and particularly by his countrymen :— "He was an enthusiastic supporter of tbel.N.F, and the parishioners of tbia district showed their esteem of him by collecting and forwarding to him on his departure to Australia, where he weut by the advice of the doctors thinking the change would do him good, tbe sum of £90. Tin amount was collected at Westport, Damiiston, Charltsion, aod Addisons. I was one of the collector a and can testify to the fact of the people subscribing cheerfully, and wherever we went they spoke in high tsrms of him. He was a gifted preacher. He gave a course of ssrmons here at one tima on the Mysteries, which proved to my mind that if ha had been spared, he would have become one of tha ablest preachsrs in N.Z. He was generous to to a t&uU, like mo3t of his countrymen, in whose company he deligited, The first funeral service he performadjwas here over a countryman. The tears would com) to his eyas in spite of himself, and he said, ' Oh what a terrible thing it is to die in this far off land away from Ireland ani relations.' "

The ordinary fortn : ghtly meeting of the Westport branch Irish National Kedaration was held in St Cinice's schoolroom on 25th Oct. Mr A. P. Sharkey presided, an 4 thera was a good attendance of members and their frienis, a number of ladies gracing the proceeding* with their presence. After the routine business was concluded, the meeting wen* into harmony. Tbe programme which was a most entertaining one, was greatly appreciated. The following gentlemen coutnbuted items. Messrs P. Q. O'Brien, O'Malley, McConnell, Miller, Rober'soa, Sharkey, Kally and J. Biirae.

THE following young ladies attending St Miry 'a High School, Ponsjnby, Auckland, were successful in passing the Trinity College Musical Examin*tion, beld last Jjne : — Ssntor Division Honours Section, Lily Thomson 60. Intermediate Division Honours Section, Conßtancj de Bourbel 88, A^oes Ruthven 82. Pa 93 Section, Con« stanca de Bjurbel 83, Agae3 Ruthven 99, Mary Rice 70. Junior Division Pass Section, Rdjj Sdcabary 84, Maai Jjhuston 82, Florence McOaba 82, Claire Hanen 80, Violet Foot 78, Kathleen McGarrigle 72, Ethel Corbett 71, Minnie Oorbett 66.

We recird with great regret the death of Mr John Finn, which occurred at Nightcap 3on the 3-d inst. The deceased, who was- a. native of the County Limerick, Ireland, was 36 years of age. Ha was very much esteemed in the district in which he lived, and,., indeed, by all who knew him. His funeral, which took place at Wrey's Bash on the 6th iost , was the largest ever seen there, peopleattending it from Gore, Winton, Invercargill, and other places. He= ha 9 left a widow and a youag family to mourn his los 9. R.I.P.

A Pontifical High Mass of Requiem for tha rapose of the bouls of the Oatholio3 lost in the wreck of tin Wairarapa was celebrated in Ss .Mary's Cathedral, WellingioD, on Monday morning the sth inst, 1115 Graoa the Archbishop acted as celebrant ; the Very Be? Father Djvoy, V.G., as deacon; the Rev Father O'Meara, as sab-deacon ; aud the Very Bey Father Dawaon, Ada!., as master of ceremonies. There was a large congregation present. . .

LOED Plttnkbt, Protestant Archbishop of Dablm-we do not say Anglican Archbishop, because Lord Plunket is Pcot jstait beyond ail things, positively devoured by Protestantism in fact-has laely played at consecrating a gentleman namei Cibrera, a tract distributor from Gibraltar, as bishop at Madri.i. The mater has highly scandalised his Grace's brethren-or step-brethren-of the Church of England who disdain Protestant associations. Why it should eff c Catholics we cannot see. They cm only regard it as another attemot on the part of their Evangelical friends at proselytism, and destined, like those that have preceded H, to end in failure and abaurdiy ; for everyone, that is, except the few humbugs who find there is mon-y in it Lord PJunket, we admit, though infinitely foolish is comple-ely sin-cere-as much in earnest, in fact, as our late visitor, Mrs Beaant herBe.f. What, however, in connection with this fiasco d3es appear of Boms importance is th.ttbe "coaseoratim " was attended by deputatiODs from the Masonic Lodges of Sp»in. Advanced atheism, therefore openly welcomes Evangelic ilism to its aid -and ..nr foolish friends gleefully accept the welcome. Again we see that Sa^aa caan ,t b> divided again* himself. Somsthmg more tbat thU al< >is t , bo note I in this particular case. Senor Cabrera, (he brand-new biaoop, hails from Gibraltar, which Dr Bitaille describe as a chief stron-h jld of the Palladic Masons-a fortress of the devil- worshippers. Taking this into cjosideriion, (ha Masoaio pitronajja accorded to Lord Flunketd hltle enterprise seem 3 particularly omimus.— E*an«relicil ritualist, theosophist, athais-, devil-worshipper, all to-etbor on one mde-and on the other tin Church of Christ. Can his Grac 3 not see the company in whic^i he moves, and its sigaificnncs ? Solemn Offi 3e for the D,ad ani Hi ? h Miss of Requiem were offered on Friday, tbe 9th ins\, at Winton for the rep OO 383 8 of th- soul of Patrick Bgan, wnoaa anniversary it was. The celebrant wis the Very Bey Fafher O'L^ry ; the deacon, Bsv Father Walsh • sabdeacon, Bey Father Vereker ; magter of ceremonies, Bey Fither Burke. The Bey Fathers Murphy and Keenan were also present The sermon was preached by the Rev Father Burke, who took as his subject the doctrine of purgatory, treating it in his usual scholarly and eloquent manner. The church was densely crowded. Archbishop Orokb has sated to a correapoadent of the Cor\ Examiner that he is in thorough accord with tbe viewa lately »xpressed by Dr Thomas Addis Emmett, President of the liiah National Fei.ration of Am-nca, in coniemcutioa of the dissension in the Irish party.

On all sides there were expressions of kindliest sympaihy as well as of Slackest regret on Wednesday morning (says the ydney Freeman of November 3rd), when it became kaown that rh Very Bey Dean M'Oart ,y, P.P., of Burwood, was among the injured in the railway collision near the Bed fern Station. • * * t was at first reported that the Dean was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in an unconscious state. A Freeman reporter who called at tbe institution last night obtained the facts from the Mother Bectress. It appears that after, some kindly hands had attended his injuries as bes'. they could, amidst the confusion which followed the collision, the Dean asked some one to call a cab for him. Unattended ha wa* driven from the Bedfern Station to 3t Vincent's Hospital wiihin half an honr of the terrible blunder. He stepped from tbe cab, paid the driver, rang the bell, and w,as standing in the hall when one of the Sisters cime to Bee " the priest who had nnt with an accident." He ,-was at once recognised, anjl, although suffering intense pain be asked in his gentlest manner if they " could' fiad room for him." He walked to one of the rooms reserved for private patients, and it waa not till then that the SisteTS and tnurses heard of the terrible ekperieace through which the venerable priest bad passed. The rou,>h bandages were removed, and the combined ekill of Dr Doolan, Dr Mailer, and

Dr MacCarthy was pressed into service. The sufferer never lost conscioumew and no murmur escaped his lips. * * *, The saintly his dea h. Faher Malone, the chaplain of St Vincent*, remained to the last pra, IDg with him and whispering words of consolation in his ear. Just after 12 o'clock had struck « the old Dean," as he was lovingly called by all who knew him, breathed bi 3 last-fall, congous that he had been spared to close his eyes for ever to the world on the Feast of All Saints. • * • Daaa MCartby was one of the oldest and most venerated priests in the Diocese of Sydney! He was 72 years of age. He came out to Sydney from Irelapd a deacon, and was ordaiued priest by the late Archbishop Polding some 45 years ago. Archpriest Sheehy is bis junior as a priest, and the only members of the clergy in New South Wales who can be nWd m toe order of seniority wi;h the Dean *re :-Monsi g nor Bigney, the Very Bey Dean OTknnell, -he Very Bey Dr Hallinan, and the Very B >v Dean Hanley . Before the oiocjse of Bithurst Wis established, D.an M .Carthy was the venerated parish priest of Mudge, Dean 0 Donovan being bin anchor. Thi* was before 1865, wben'the late Dr Matthew Q jinn toak charge of the new diocese. Dean M'Oarthy rerauned in the DioceEe of Sydney, and for over 20 years he bad been the beloved paster of Burwood. Enjoying as he did the highest esteem of Archbishop P.lding and Archbishop Vaughan, it was no surprise 1* 8 t the present Cardinal- Archbishop of Sydney permanently app lated him parish priest of Burwood, besides selecting him as one of h.s diocesan consult rs. Tbe other consultors »re, the Very Bey Dr Carro 1, V.G., Monsignor Bigney, Archpriest Sheehy, De n Healy, and the Very Bey P. Le Rsnnetel, S.M. The deceased left all hjs means to Catholic charities.— Requiescat In pace. *cc prize of three guineas offered some weeks ago by the Very Bey Father Lynch, for the best es«ay on the manner of c-eating and fosftr n2n 2 amo-g the children of Imb settlers a love for Ireland hai been w.n by Mr Thomas McCormack. Ihe essay, which will be pnol.sred bj us next we. k , waa signed by the norn de plume •< Celt " The editor of the TAULtx, .o whose judgment the decision had been lef, before deciding, B nh.»i ted hia selection to the Bey Fath.r Murphy, by whom it was coLfirmed. The name of the successful competitor was not known unil afterwards-w'ben the sealed envelope in which it was enclosed v tj opened.