OBITUARY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 38, 21 January 1898, Page 15

OBITUARY.

On New Year's eve Mrs. Richard Hoare, the oldest resident of Kerrytown, died after a long: illness, borne with admirable patience and resignation. Her funeral, which was a large one, took place on Monday, the 3rd inst., in Temuka. Very Rev. Father Lemanent officiated at the Requiem Mass in St. Joseph' 3 church. Very Rev. Fathers Fauvel, Louis, Goggin, and Tubman followed her remains to their last resting place. She leaves a husband and ten children, all grown up, to mourn her loss. One of her daughters is Sister Mary Damian of St. Joseph's Convent, Sydney. The deceased lady was a sister to the late Sister Magdalen, Dominican Convent, Dunedin.— R.l.P. Our intercolonial chronicle opens this week with a record of the deaths of a priest and three religious. Rev. Father Hughes, late of Goondiwindi, Queensland, died on December 28th. Father Hughes was a native of County Longford, and was in his 42nd year. He was educated at Carlow College, and for the most part his priestly labours were confined to the district of Warwick and Toowoomba. Failing health for some time brought him to Brisbane, and all that medical skill could do was done for him. He was buried in Nudgee Cemetery. His Grace the Archbishop officiated at the grave, the responses being given by the clergy. — It. IP. A few days previously at the little Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph at Bankstown. N.S W. Sister Evangelista (native of Tipperary, Ireland) passed peacefully away. The Children of Mary of Bankstown and Rookwood, who during her last illness had vied with each other in performing many little acts of kindness, paid their last tribute of affection as, in white veils and blue mantles, they joined the proceesion which proceeded through the Bankstown cemetery to her grave, which is beneath the window of the sanctuary. The ceremonies at the church and grave were conducted by Father O'Reilly, assisted by Father Rohan. Another death occurred at the Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay. N.S.W., when Madame M'Kenna passed away. The deceased lady was a member of a well-known Melbourne family, residents of Carlton. On Christmas Day the obsequies permitted by the rubrics were carried out both in the chapel and at the grave in the presence of his Eminence the Cardinal-Archbishop, his Lordship Bishop Higgins and a large number of the clergy. The remains of the deceased nun were interred in the grounds of the convent. The Sisters of the Good Shepher 1. Abbotsford, Melbourne, have likewise suffered a loss in the death of Sister Mary of St. Thomas of Aquin, daughter of the late Mr. Richard Lalor. Sister Mary wa-> born in 1837, at Castle Dermont, Kildare. Ireland, and consequently, was in her Gl3t year at the time of her death. She pronounced her solemn vows at the parent house of this famous religious order, at Aungers (France), in the year 1802, and was one of the devoted band of four Sisters of the Gool Shepherd who left for Melbourne on 9th February, 1863, at the invitation of the then Bishop of the diocese, the late Most Rev. Dr. Goold. The deceased may be said to be one of the founders of the Convent of Good Shepherd, Abbotsford ; as complete and extensive a convent of its kind as there is in Europe. It comprises the Magdalene Asylum, the industrial and preservative schools, and St. Euphrasia's day school. The total cost of these buildings being about £77,453.