INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 37, 15 September 1904, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

A correspondent of the Irish ' Leader ' says : 'We liave in our midst at present a distinguished linguist, a prize medallist in many languages, a finished professor /in the science of phonetics. 1 allude to the Rev. Dr. /O'Daly, the accomplished Australian, who is lectluring in the Munster School of Irish at Bealanag^axy. Being master of many languages, it is not surprising that tins IrisSh-Australran lias, to use an Irish phrase, " come in upon the Irish language ' so intimately, and has acquired the night " bias "so completely.' Dr. O'lDalty was for sjome time at St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst (N.S.W. ), and visited South Australia and Broken Hill for the benefit of his health some years ago.

The Port Lincoln ' Recorder ' reports that the Rev. P., L. Kelly left Port Lincoln in a four-in-hand trap on August 24, bound for Fowler's Bay, and other distant parts of Eyre's Peninsula. He intends to drive

about 1130 miles before returning to Port Lincoln in November. Fatiher Kelly (says our contemporary) is not a

stranger to the bush. When connected with the Survey Department he travelled extensively with camels in the interior of Australia, in company with Mr. Copley Playford, sketching in the country and fixing on the man of South Australia, the exact positions of various places of interest, including the tree under which Burke, the explorer, perished.

The Bisihops of the province of Sydney (says the ' Catholic Press,' September 1) met at the Cardinal's Palace, Manly, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and to-day they will assemble at St. Mary's Cathedral. His Eminence Cardinal Moran i's presiding, and the prelates piesent are his Grace Ilhe Archbishop of Melbourne, his Grace the Coadiutor-Archbishop of Sydney, Bishops Murray (Maitland"), G-aTlaghe'r (Goulburn), O'Connor (Armidlale), and Dwyer (Coadjutor-Bishop o f Maitland). The meeting w,as convened in respect to the wish of the Holy Father, who desires to take into his confidence the

Bishofps of the Catholic world in regard to the modernising and codifying of the Canoh Law of the Chunh The visiting prelates will remain in Sydney for the opetning of St. Mary's Fafr, which takes place on Saturday, September 3.

Lieutenant-Colonel Murray, who takes up the duties of Ohief Judicial Officer of British New Guinea, is a worthy son of a distinguished father, Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, one-time Speaker q[ N.S.W. Legislative

Asisembly and President of the Legislative Council. Born in 1861, Colonel Murray is a native of Sydney. When seventeen years of age he went to England, where his eJdJucatkm was continued at Brighton College, whence he wept to Germany, and afterwards to Unneisity

College, London. He entered Oxford University in 18,81, and here he won an open scholarship at Magdalen College, fust cla.ss in classical ' Moderation ' and lirst

class itn classical ' Greats.' He took his degree in 1885, and was called to the Bar of t<he Inner Ten^ple vi 1886.

Coming to Australia in 'BU, he practised as a barrister, and was well known as a capable and fair Crown I'rosecutor. Several times he filled the post of Acting-

Judge of the District Court

He has commanded the

Irivh Rifles since '98, and as a commanding ollicer he has been regarded as except iofrially qualified. In January, 1900, lie went to South Africa, and saw service, mostly with De Lisle's Corps, returning in 4901. A cablegram received a few days ago (says the Tasmaftian ' Monitor ') removes the doubt m connection with the announcement of the death of C. PI. Bromby that appeared in the daily papers a few weeks ago. Bi-

shqp Bromby, though over ninety, is still living : it is his son,, uhe ex-Attorney-General of Tasmania, that has been called away. The Hon. Charles Hamilton Bromby was well known in Tasmania. He was son of the Anglican Bishop, and was born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on July 17, 1843. Having graduated at Oxford, Jie entered as a law student in the Inner Temple, London,, and was called to the Bar in 1877. He came

to Ta&mainia in 1874, and same years after represented

Laimiceston, Lolngford, and Richmond in the Legislative Astsemblyy and was Attorney-General in the Hon. Mr. Rei'bey's Government. Of late years he resided in London and 'practised his profession there. Mr. BromJby was received into the Catholic Church in Rome, and in the very room in which St. Ignatius died. On his arrival im. Tasmania he lived for some time with his fatiher, the Protestant Bishop. On S,unday morning father and sion would walk to Church together till they

came to the parting of the ways at

the junction

Harrington and Macquarie streets. There tihey parted * company, the father going to St. DavM's amd the son to T St. Mary's Catfaedral, where he so often worshipped with piety and marked attention to the sermon and edification to the Catholic people.