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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 7

A very pleasant social funotion (»ays the W, A. Record') took place recently at the Coolgardie Convent School, when the Very Rev. Dean O'Reilly was presented by hie \k< -isLioners with, a beautifully illuminated address and a massive gold Celtic cross, as a mark of esteem, and on his beings raised to the office of Dean of the Eastern Goldfield*. There were fully 200 members of the congregation present, and the proceedings were most enthusiastic. The B.M.S. Cutco, which arrived recently in Melbourne, brought eight priests for Australian dioceses. Rev. J. P. O'Connell for the archdiocese of Melbourne. The Rev. gentleman is a nephew of the Rev. T. J. O'Connell (Tatura). Rev. W. Close and Rev. B. Ryan for the diocese of Ballarat. Father Ryan is a brother to the Rev. M. Ryan, of Woodend. The Revs. T. Crowley, Father Ahem, J. Considine, J. Kelleher, and S. Champion are for N.S.W. and W.A dioceses.