INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, 8 January 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL.

Master Patrick John Wallace, who passed the Senior University examinations in Sydney with such credit to himself and his school — the Christian Brothers' College, Nudgee, Queensland — has secured first place amongst Queensland boys for the year, and has been awarded the scholarship of £100 a year, tenable for three years, given by the Queensland Government. Through the effortn of Mr J. W. R. Clarke, of Newtown, a very fine monument, surmounted by a cross, has been erected over the grave of " Madame Sara Elizabeth Flower in the Catholic portion of the La Perouse cemetery. Madame Flower who died in 1865, at the age of 43 years, was the greatest singer of her time in Australia, and was in every sense a distinguished woman. To all those in need of assistance she gave a helping hand. She was a convert to the Catholic Church. By th« retirement of First-class Sub-Inspector Byrne from the police on pension, after 40 years' active service, the New South Wales force loses one of its ablest and most intrepid officers. The exceptional deeds of real bravery which this officer performed in the series of .years during which the notorious bushrangers known as Clarke's gang reigned in the Jingera Mountains and adjacent districts would fill a volume of interesting ond sensational reading. At the Catholic Ladies' College (says the ' Atpus ') Archbishop Carr took the opportunity to say a few words on the education question in the prevailing spirit of peace and goodwill. After a humorous reference to his reverend opponent at another ladies' college, he said, where there was no question of faith of Catholic children involved, he desired children of every other denomination to receive just as good, true, practical help in religious matters as he desired for Catholic children. Nothing would please him better than if every child in the Commonwealth were brought to a knowledge of fear and love of God. To this his help would be willingly given, only, in imparting such instruction, he did not wish any risk, of danger to Catholic children. It may not be generally known that Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was the father of Australian Federation. In an able article, entitled, ' The Empire and the Colonies,' appearing in the current issue of the ' Edinburgh Review,' page 481, the writer pays this tribute to the foresight and wisdom of the veteran statesman : — ' Up to 1862 Federation was only the dream of an Irish idealist, Charles Gavan Duffy, who had been accounted a noted separatist in his own country — one of the most romantic figures in the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, and happily still surviving into the twentieth.' Chevalier Wiegand, who was too much an aitist for the City Council (says the Sydney ' Catholic Press ') is doing well in America, where the great orernnist is e\ idently appreciated 'Writing recrntlv to a friend, he announces his appointment as organist and choirmaster lit St Paul's Catholic Church, Oswcyo, New Yoik The Belgian organist is to receive a salary of £000 a year with three months' holiday in the year, and li'ieitv to gn c recitals outside CKweco on certain rin\^ of the week nnd to tnko pupils In order to accept this post Mr WiegatTil declined an offer of £.700 as orcan-professor at the Bush Temple Conser\ atorium. Chkairo. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, in the course of a speech at the distribution ol prr/es at the Christian Brothers' College, \ ictoria paiade, said : — ' It was sometimes imputed to the Irish people that they wei c wanting m culture, and that they had not that fer\ent loyalty to the thi one that other paits of the Empire had It w T as also stated in i i gai d to them that they were wanting in thritt. If that was said to anyone who was acquainted with all that led to the condition of lieland in IPO2, plain icasons would be found tor whatever foundation there was for those allegations, which were now brought foiwaid by those whose ancestois weie themselves the cause of the sad condition of Ireland for uuinv centuries, the result of which had extended even to their own day. Why, it was a crime in li eland for some hundred years to teach or to try to secure for for the children of Irish Catholic parents that education which alone could be safely imparted to them ' It was said that the Irish were thriftless If they wen; they were made so, for several centuries, when all s-omces of profit and emolument which might ha\ c been i pen to them were closed against them by their rule's and by their oppressors It was said that the !"'sh weie wanting in fervent loyalty Well, as far as fer\or wus concerned, that might be conceded, though he belie\ed Ihat so far as the re-al solidity of it was concerned, it should not ; but if there was any want of loyalty to the throne, or respect for the law on the part of Irisimon, whi was it that should make the accusation? »Vas :t those wl oso ancestors by dire persecution compelled Irishmen to look on the law not as a source of protection, i.ci with feelings of reverence, but with feelings of '.> or -\nd enger on account of the injury that was inflicted on 'hem in the name of the law. When, therefore, 11-ey heard those charges levelled against Irishmen they ought to have tin answer ready.' ___«-__-__■-____-_