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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11, 16 March 1905, Page 5

The Rev. Mother Mary of the Passion (formerly Helen Mary Phillipine de Chappotin de Neuville), whose death is announced, was the foundress of the Institute of the Missionaries of Mary, or Franciscan nuns, who number at present more than three thousand religious and have ninety houses in various countries, including England and Ireland. The Bishop of Port Augusta, the Right Rev. Dr. Maher, hap made the following clerical appointments :— Owing to the Very Rev. T. O'Connor being obliged thfoujgh ill-health to take a holiday in Europe, the 1 Rev. John O'Mahony has been transferred from Port Augusta and given charge of Port Pirie for the interval of Father O'Connor's absence. The Rev. R. Kirby is- to be .the administrator of the Cathedral and district of Port "Augusta for the lime being. The Rev. J. Breronski has been transferred from Jamestown to be assistant at Port Pirie. The Rev. M. J. O'Flynn, who has beefa seriously ill of late, will, as soon as he is well again, becotme the assistant of the Bishop at Pekina, being transferred from Port Pirie. Messirs. A. Jones and Sons, Limited, Hastings, assisted by Mr. H. Andrews, representing Messrs. Morrow, Bassett, anid Co.. Christchurch, held a trial of the Benicia Disc Plolugh at Te Auie in the reclaimed swamp land on the Yen. Archdeacon Williams' property. Mr. Allan Williams, who has done so much in working up this class of country, which has been and is full of timber, thought a disc plough should make good work After the trial his opinion was! fully borne out. The manne(r in which the plough worked and rolled over the stumps pleased him so much that he flecided to keep the implement and intends ordering more of them...