INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 47, 19 November 1903, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

Wlhile in Rome his Eminence Cardinal Moran's health became somewhat impaired, but considerably improved under the treatment of Dr. Lapponi. He went for a fortnight to Tivoli,a where he was the guest of the Irish College. His Eminence left for Sydney by the Orient Line steamship ' Orizaba ' ) on November 1. On October 29, at St. Patrick's College, Manly a Solemn Requiem Office and Mass were celebrated for the repose of the soul of the late Rev. Father J. Brosnan, whose death took place in Ireland on September 17. The decqasecJi priest hM beefn foT 11 yaalrs tpsf occupant of the important chair of Ecclesiastical History at Manly, which he adorned by his many brilliant gifts, and where he won the love of the students. A large number of priests journeyed to Manly to take part in the ceremony, and Archbishop Kelly presided at the solemn functions. On November 4 a meeting of the clergy was held at St. Mary's Presbytery to make arrangements for the reception of his Eminence the Cardinal, who is due to arrive by the Orizaba on Saturday, December 5. There was a large attendance, the Right Rev. Monsignor Carroll, V.G., presiding. After some discussion as to the best means of welcoming his Eminence, it was decided that tihe reception should be much on the same lines as last year. The clergy, it was resolved, would go down the harbor to meet him, and there would be a procession to the Cathedral, where an, :addness would be presented. A committee was appointed to arrange the reception. The ' Southern Cross ' saya that the Rev. Father Jioseph O'Malley, S.J., of NoTwood, has devised a new system oi) teaching sigiht singing. Father O'Malley, who is equally a master of music and mathematics, has been engaged in teaching children singing for over thirty years, and is the inventor of more than one device for simplifying the present complicated methods. The system illustrated on this occasion he has used in teaching the pupils of the Sisters of St. Joseph at the Beulahroad school for the past six months, and it appears to have been very successful. It is an ingenious combination of the tonic sol fa system and the ordinary fixed method, and the inventor aims at teaching harmony at the same time. The Sisters of St. Joseph have (says the Adelaide 4 Advertiser ') earned a-n excellent reputation in South Australia by their self-denying charity. They work without fee or reward to relieve those in distress, but sometimes their efforts are not appreciated as they should be- In the Local Court on Wednesday the Superior of the Fullarton Refuge was s,uod by a man who had been fed, lodged, and paid a subsist wiage fox three months by the Sisters at that institution The plaintiff, who demanded more money for his work, in crossexamination admitted to Mr. H. A. Parsons, who appeared for the defendant (the Superior of the Refuge), that ho was paid all he asked for on leaiving the Refuge, that he had on three different occasions increased the amount of his claim, that he 'had given a receipt in full settlement after leaving, and that he could not remember whether or not he had threatened to ' knife ' the gardener and shoot another of the men employed by tihe Sisters. The magistrate, without calling on the defendant, gave her a verdict with costs, intimating that he did not believe the plaintiff's story. The painful news of the accidental drowning of Rev. Father M'Kiernan, of Gayndah, reached Brisbane (sa} r s the ' Australian ') on Tuesday, October 27. The first telegram from Gayndah under Tuesday's date read : 1 Word has been received here that two horses were found drowned attached to a buggy at the washpool crossing on Barambah Creek yesterday afternoon. The horses and buggy were the property of the Rev. Father M'Kiernan, who left Byrnestown for Gayndah yesterday. The police, with a party of residents, have left to make a search. Grave fears are entertained for the rev. gentleman's safety.' These fears were only too well founded, for a later wire from the siame town was received which stated : ' The body of the Rev. Father M'Kiernan has been found in Barambah Creek, th)ree- j quarters of a mile below the crossing, and is now being brought to town.' The deceased priest was deeply revered and loved by all who knew him, and the news of his sad end caused a painful shock to the Catholics of this quarter of Queensland amongst whom he had labored. Of a gentle and most charitable disposition, his lamented death has removed from the ranks of the Brisbane clergy ome whose manners won many an outlaw amongst the faiiihful, and one whose purse was ever and always open to aid the needy. Poor Father M'Kiernan, after being stationed for some time in Brisbane, was stationed for a time at Caboolturc, from whence he was transferred to Gayndah.— R.l. P 4