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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 15 October 1903, Page 6

A few days ago (reports the ' Freeman's Journal ') Father Cregan, Administrator of St. Mary's Cathedral, received news from Deajn O'Haran at Port Said, which intimated that his 'Eminence Cardinal Moran had been unwell for a week between Colombo and Suez. The illness, we understand, was of a gastric nature. As our Rome correspondent in his letter of August 26 does not refer to it, we presume his Eminence had by then almost, if not quite, recovered. The London correspondent of the Sydney ' Daily Telegraph ' wrote on August 28 : ' Cardinal Moran arrived in Rome on Saturday last. He made detailed inquiries regarding tihe election at the Vatican, and declared that Pius X. was ' just the kind of Pope that Catholicism stood in need of." The Cardinal is still suffering from gastric fever, due to the heat of the tropics and the long voyage. He did not leave the Irish College, where he is staying, all last Saturday, and received nobody. The Cardinal's Secretary, Dean O'Haran, went to announce at the Vatican his Eminence's arrival, to the Propaganda, and arranged for an audience with the Pope. The Pope received the Cardinal in private, and greeted him most cordially. His Holiness expressed his thanks ' tfor the warm congratulalations which the Cardinal tendered him, and added that he had been most pleased to receive the congratulatory telegram sent by the Cardinal from Colombo on the occasion of his election.