OBITUARY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 20, 22 September 1898, Page 18

OBITUARY.

It is our painful duty to record the de ith of a highly respected resident of Gore, namely, Mrs. Ward, wife of Mr. W. F. Ward, who is nephew of his Grace the Archbishop of Wellington. Mrs. Ward had gained the highest esteem of all with whom she came into contact by her many estimable qualities We beg to tender our deep sympathy to Mr. Ward in his great bereavement. — 1i.1.P. Fiji papers report the death of the Very Rev. J. B. Breheret, S.M. He was born at Angers, France, on the Mth June, 1815, and died on the 12th August. During 50 years Father Brtheret was only absent from Fiji once, when he sp nt six months in Sydney. Among the works which will perpetuate his memory in Fiji are the establishment of the Mission Stations at Solevu, Wairiki, Verata, Kadavu Serua and Loreto. The present Suva church was also built by him. In Levuke he built up for himself a monument of affection and universal respect. Every soul in Levuka down to tne youngest children recognised his well-known figure, and few indeed were those who did not count it a privilege to exchanage a few words with the pioneer resident of Levuka (if not of the whole of Fiji). Father Breheret celebrated his jubilee in Fiji on the 17th July. 1892, on which occasion a large and representative gathering met him to congratulate him on the event, aud present him with an illuminated address, a purse of sovereigns and a valuable piece of church plate. As a memento of his fifty years of work in Fiji, he erected at Cawaci, on the brow of a hill, a wooden cross in a concrete base, and this monument is plainly visible to-day from the sea. Before this, at Loreto, he had erected another cross, which was t o mark the spot where he had elected to be buried. — 1i.1.P.

On the 18th ult. the death, after an illness of some two months, occurred at St. Joseph's Convent, Fremantle, of the Rev. Mother Mary Teresa, who passed away at the advanced age of 85, having fulfilled a course of distinguished services to religion. The deceased nun, whose name in the world was McKenzie, was a native of Malta, being on her father's side of Scotch nationality. She entered religion early in life, making her profession as a nun in the French Order of St. Joseph at the age of twenty. The five years following were spent by her partly in England' and partly in the Far East, where, in Burmah, she was honoured by the favourable notice of the King and Qu<.eu. Forty years ago she arived in Western Australia, and took up her re-idence at Fremantle, where h( r labours were abundantly cru.vnpd with success, a very small beginning having developed under her tupervision aud cu,re into an important community, condujtmg excellent schools, with an attendance of some ;it Mj to -tot) chilaren. — R.I. P.