INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 4, 23 January 1902, Page 7

INTERCOLONIAL.

A successful bazaar, held recently at Geelong, realised a ret profit of £1700. The Sydney Catholic Press understands tha*; Cardinal Moran has engagements that will detain him in Sydney until the end of February. The date of his visit to Rome haa not been fixed. The Rev. Father George Robinson, of Oamberwell, ami the Rev Father O'Brien, of Collingwood, two of Melbourne's most popular priests, passed through Sydney soma days ago on their way to New Zealand for a holiday. The Rev. Father Herbert, S.M. — a St. Joseph's ' old boy,' who has some years been on the professorial staff of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, New Zealand (says the Freeman's Journal) — is spending his vacation in Sydney with the Marist Fathers of St. Patrick's. The Very Rev. John B. O,Mahony, D.D. (President of St. Finbar's College, Cork), passed through Sydney recently on his return to Ireland. Dr. O'Mahony applied his health vacation to travel. He passed from New York to San Francisco, and thence across the Pacific to Sydney. The Sydney correspondent of the Southern Cross says that Archbishop Kelly is a very fine preacher. His utterance is very slow and deliberate, and he takes care that every word may reach his auditors. He has a clear, resonant voice, which may be heard a long distance off, while in gesturing he is as free and natural as the Italians, who are noted for the graceful use of gestures. Very Rev. Father Gregory, C.P., Provincial of the Pasfionists in Australia, has been much benefited by his stay at Glen Osmond. He has now almost altogether recovered from the effects of the illness which came upon him when giving a mission at Gundsgai in New South Wales. Father Gregory will leave Australia shortly to attend a Provincial Council to be held in England in June. It is not expected that he will return to Australia. The Rev. Father Treacy, who, for the laßt 17 years (says the W A. Record'), had been attached to the dioceee of Perth, where he had labored with marked success in several districts, has left for the Eastern States. Father Treacy has left behind him many lasting monuments cf a zealous and useful career as a priest. He was particularly active and successful in the erection of churches and other buildings connected with the Catholic mission. As already announced (says the WA. Record), the sacred musical drama, 'The Two Worlds,' by the Rev. James Duff, is about to be produced in the Eastern States. Tb^ first performance will be given in Ballarat on January 26. Mr. D'Arcy-Irvino, who composed portions of the music for its production here last year, has been commissioned by the Rev. Father Duff to complete the musical part of the work, and has been engaged for some time past on the task. Dr. Charles W. MacCarthy (says a correspondent of the Southern Cross) is one of the most distinguished Irishmen o Australia. One of the leaders of the medical profession in Sydney he is a man of varied and noble giftp. He is an able and cultured musician, and a painter and sculptor of considerable ability. Just outside his surgery stands a bust of John Dillon, chiselled by the doctor, which, as everybody who has seen Mr. Dillon avows, is a speaking likeness. Mr P. J. O'Driscoll, well known in Adelaide and Sydney, has been appointed representative of the Citizens' Life Assurance Co. in Ireland. Mr O'Driscoll,l\vho was for many years resident manager of the company in Adelaide, was trmsferr^d a few years ago to the head office, Sydney, and later he received the appointment as manager in Queensland, where he has dona excellent work. Wherever he lived he was a popular, energetic citizen and a fearless Irishman, and his appointment to his native land must be particularly pleasing to him. He is brother of the Rev. Father O'Driscoll, of Bungendore. The Adelaide Register, in congratulating Mr O'Driscoll, says : ■ He is a native of Cork, and will pass through Adelaide on his way back to the land of his biruh about the middle of January. His untiring work in the cause of Home Rule in Ireland is still remembered in Adelaide, and as hon. treasurer of the Irish National Federation he had special opportunities of furthering his heart's desire.' The death is reported of Dr. Michael J. Clune, of North Sydney, after a protracted illness. The deceased gentleman, who was a well-known medical practitioner, was a native of Sydney, and received his education at St. Mary's College, Lyndhurst, and later at St. John's College, under the Very Rev. John Forrest, D.D. Of the latter college he was subsequently elected a Fellow. He was a graduate of the Sydney University, where he took his M.A. degree, in 1863. Thence he went to the Dublin University, where he had a brilliant medical career, securing amongst other honors the Leonard prize. Subsequentiy he passed with honors the triple doctorate of the University of Brussels, being the first Australian to attain that distinction. Returning to his native city in 1872 he at once commenced practice. He was senior physician to St. Vincent's Hospital, with which institution he was closely associated for 20 years. Dr. Clune was also chief medical officer to the Citizens' Life Assurance Company, which position he held until about two years ago, when, owing to failing health, he was compelled to relinquish his post. It was about that period that he gave up practice.