OBITUARY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 20, 17 May 1900, Page 20

OBITUARY.

MBS. JAMES DALTON, IKVEECARGILL. There died at Invercargill on the sth inst. one of the earliest Catholic colonists in the person of Mrs. James Dalton. The deceased was a native of Cahir, Tipperary, and came out to Sydney in 1855. Three years later she was married in Launceston, and with her husband came to New Zealand in 1803. Mr. and Mrs Dalton went to live in Qaeenstown in the early seventies, where they remained for about 10 years. Later on they settled down in InveroargilL The deceased leaves a husband and a family of six children to mourn their loss. The funeral was attended by a large number of old settlers of Invercargill. The service at the residence of the deceased and at the graveside was conducted by the Very Rev. Dean Burke.— lt. I. P.

The separationists in Western Australia have been in sad trouble over their petition to the Throne, signed by nearly 30,000, going astray. It transpired that the Governor did not intend taking the petition to England with him. It is now lying at Government House in the casket. The Albany petition is also lying there. Copies of each petiton have been furnished to the Ministers, who will make their comments thereon, and the petitions will then be forwarded to Sir Gerard Smith, who has consented to present them to the Secretary for State. .V pleasing and highly gratifying fact (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Freeman's Journal) is constantly obtruding itself on public notice, viz., the progress great, solid, farreaching, of the Catholic Church in this colony. Week after week, the daily and weekly papers report the fact of some farther provision to meet the ever-increasing Catholic congregations, and school buildings are being erected or enlarged to receive the teeming population of Catholic children. On a recent Sunday, the somewhat oommon spectacle was witnessed of three dioceses being engaged at the same hour in the work of opening or laying the foundation-stone of new churches, viz , the Archdiocese of Melbourne, and the suffragan dioceses of Ballarat and Bendigo. The Archbishop was at Ormond laying the foundation-stone of a new church, the Bishop of Ballarat performing a similar function at Camperdown, and the deputy of the Bishop of Sandhurst was re-opening his enlarged church at Chiltern. These works combined represent an expenditure of something like £6000, and about one-fifth of this amount was received on the occasion referred to. These are agricultural centres, and it speaks trumpet-tongued for our worthy Irish and Irish-Australian yeomanry that they are keeping well up to the best traditions of the Irish race which has earned for itself the title of ' a churchbuilding people.'

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