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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 26, 30 June 1904, Page 31

It Ls said that the Orangeman outside the shores of Ireland remains at least as virulent a bipjot as when he dwells on Irtish soil. Like every rule, this has its exceptions The Most Rfv. Dr. Gibney, Bishtap of Perth (W A.) in replying to an address presented to him on the occasion of his visit to Albany, recently told some stories of tfhe hardships of the missiojn some fifty years ago. Amongst these stories was tihe following : •It was only with difficulty that a good supply of fresh water could bo obtained in those days in many parts of the bustfi, and his Lordship (then Father Gibney), wten travelling in the Williams' dist<ri«ct, on one occasion felt ainxious for a drink of pure water. It so happened that a workmen heard that the visitor had come from tfce same part of the Emerald Isle as himself, and his first act on rising in the ttnortiing was to procure a eood draught of the precious fluid. After he had placed a bucketful at the feet of the priest he said to him " When yjou return to the Old Land tell them that an OrWemaa from the North of Ireland walked six miles in the Australian bush to supply you with a drink of good