INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 23, Issue 47, 23 November 1899, Page 20

INTERCOLONIAL.

Viscount Gormanston (Governor of Tasmania) and Lady Gormanston have returned to the colony. The Very Rev. Father C. A. Hyland, 0.F.M., has arrived from Home for the purpose of joining the Franciscans in Sydney. News was received in Sydney the other day that Mr. C. V. Dalley, youngest son of the late Mr. W. B. Dalley, had been killed in the hunting field in England. The Rev. Father J. J. Cusack, who was recently transferred to Gordons, was presented with a purse of 112 sovereigns at the Assembly Hall, Drysdale, from his former parishioners. His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Gibney, Bishop of Perth, has gone to Singapore for the benefit of his health, which had been indifferent for some time. Latest accounts from his Lordship are to the effect that the sea trip had been most beneficial. Nearly £300 has been collected at Lismore (says a Grafton paper) for a testimonial to his Lordship Dr. Doyle. The testimonial is to celebrate Bishop Doyle's Silver Jubilee in the priesthood and the Golden Jubilee of his age. The Rev. Father Ferris, who comes from the diocese of Kerry, arrived in Melbourne a few days ago on his way to Ballarat, where he will labour. He had as a fellow-traveller the Rev. P. Mulligan for ihe same dio w. Father Ferris was educated at Maynooth and Father Mulligan at All Hallows. The Rev. Father Mullan, OF.M, of Waverley, is about to I proceed Home at an early date. Father Mullan has, during his 12 years' service on the Franciscan mission at Wool lahra and Waverley, won the love and esteem of the people amongst whom he haa laboured as the most zealous of priests and the most exemplary and most unassuming of Christian gentlemen. By the Orient steamer Ormuz, which got to Port Melbourne on November 8. the following priests for the archdiocese of Melbourne arrived : — Revs. J. Barry, D. Lawton, M. Lane, T. O'Sullivan and M. Hehir. The first four rev. gentlemen were educated at Maynooth College, and the last named at All Hallows College. Fathers O'Sullivan and Lawton »re from the diocese of Ross, Father Lane from Kerry, and Father Barry from Cloyne diocese. Father Hehir is from the diocese of Killaloe. The death is reported of Mr. David Fitzpatrick, vice-chairman of the Ball drat Stock Exchange. The deceased gentleman, who was 70 years of age, arrived in Victoria in 1851, and subsequently he worked on the various goldfields of the colony. In 1866 he commence'! business in Ballarat as & stock and share broker, and at the time of hia death was connected officially with the charitable institutions of the district. He was a native of Lismore, in the County of Waterford, Ireland, and was educated at the Queen's College in Cork. After a short illness there passed away on November 4, at St. Columba's Convent and College, Essendon. one of the oldest and most accomplished members of the Order of the Sisters of Charity, Mother Mary Ursula. Mother Ursula was better known in Sydney than in Melbourne, having f-pent the major part of her fruitful religious life in the former city, where she founded, 15 years ago, St. Vincent's College, Victoria street. The deceased nun was born in Tipperary, Ireland, and at t^e time of her death was in the fiftieth year of ht-r age, and the eighteenth of her religious profession, which was ma ,c at St. Vijceut's Convent. Sydney.

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