'98 COMMEMORATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 9, 1 July 1898, Page 31

'98 COMMEMORATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

A fervid and pregnant discourse on the rebellion of 'OS was delived in Adelaide recently by the Very Rev. Father John C I', under the auspices of the Irish National Federation. There was a numerous gathering including the Archbishop of Adelaide, the Chief Secretary, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and several members of the clergy. S. MacCarthy, chairman of the 'S)S committee in Sydney wired. ' Bravo 1 Wish every success in lecture to-night. God save Ireland.' Father John's lecture which titated with graphic bkill and force of the events which led up to the rebellion, and of the lives and deeds, and of the aims and objects of the men of "!)S, was listened to with rapt attention throughout, and frequently evoked emphatic applause. At the close of the address a vote of thanks to the lecturer was carried on the motion of the Chief Secretary seconded by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Before the assemblage dispersed, his Grace the Archbishop said that the references of Father John to Orange prejudice reminded him that his (the speaker's) speech at St. Patrick's Day had he believed caused some little surprise to a few very pious people. He could not refrain from telling them a story in the same connection which he had read recently in The Southern Cro.su. It related how a Home Rule candidate visited a working-man's house, in London, in the principal room of which a likeness of the Pope faced one of King William, of pious and immortal memory, crossing the Boyne. On noticing the pictures the politician stared from one to the other in amazement, and, seeing his surprise, the voter's wife explained : — ' Shure, my husband's an Orangeman and I'm a Catholic' l How do you get on together V asked the astonished politician. ' Very well, indade,' replied the lady, 'barring the 12th July, when my husband goes out with the Orange procession and comes home drunk ' (laughter). ' What then?' ' Well, he always takes the Pope down and jumps on him, and then goes straight to bed (laughter). The next morning I get up early, take dov/n King William and pawn him, and buy a new Pope with the money (loud laughter). Then I give the old man the ticket to get King William out ' (roars of laughter).