INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 20 April 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

A cable message from Perth states that during Mr. William Redmond's visit to Kalgoorlie £1500 was srontaneously subscribed for the campaign funds of the Irish Party. We learn ?rom a private correspondent that tne takings at the St. Mary's Cathedral Fair, Sydney, amounted to the great sum of £16,118. To this must be adjded a further sum of £3000, the result of the art union. The dxpenscs were phenomenally small, amounting to only £1442. One of the Catholic clergy at Brisbane was attacked by dengue fever as he was putting on his vestments at the Cathedral on a recent Sunday, and had to rclinqui h the duty. There were no Masses celebrated in many of the suburban churches, as the clergy were too ill. At the distribution of certificates, medals, and badges, in connection with the eleventh annual examination of the Sydney College of Music, on March 21, thp enly gf>ld medallist of the year was Miss Doris Adams. This young lady, who is now only 14 years of age, has rccehed her musical tuition for the past two years tuom. tUic Dominican Nuns, ' Santa Sabina,' Strathlicld, of which convent she is still a pupil. St. Patrick's Day was seized by the good Catholics of Gundagai to prcrcnt Father O'Reilly with an address and a purs? of sovereigns. Father O'Reilly was lately curate of Giundagai, but is now stationed at Burro wa. The meeting was' in St. Stanislaus' School, Gundagai, and was thoroughly representative. Father O'Reilly was t/hree \ears at Gundagai, during whi' h time he enjoyed a wide popularity and the friendship of the people. The presentation took the form of a purse of seventy bo-'ereigns ami a suitably worded address. Sincere regret was felt all over Queensland at tihe death of Dr. Hugh McNeoly, Brisbane, which occurred on March "28. Tne deceased was born at Mount Charles, County Doi.egal, and studied at Edinburgh Vuhersity, where he took out his medical honors. Arriving in (juccnslajid in 1801, he settled at Rockham{,ton, where he acquired a large practice. In 1806, after a trip to Europe, lie took up practice in Brisbane, which he followed up to a month ago. Personally he was one of the most generous of men, but withal he deprecated any cicVii t being bestowed on him on that account. A devoted Caltholic, he gaAe liberally to every movement to benefit the Church. The death is reported from Rod>hampton of the Rev. Father Andrew Ryan. Though advanced in jears, he was particularly active. In his early life he was a member of the Passiomist Order, the hard life of which did not suit his health, and he v.ent in for the less strict, but not less arduous life of a secular priest. At Mount Morgan the church, convent, schools, and presbyliery are the result of his labors, also a church at Emu Park. lie belonged to a well-connected Dublin family, and knew all the de\out, ami early Passionists. His simplicity, his piety, his projects for the glory of God were prominent qualities in the aged priest. At the annual meeting of the United Irish Lea-gue of Victoria the balance sheet showed that after recently remitting £250 to help the Irish National exchequer, a substantial sum remained as the nucleus of a future lemittance to Dublin. The chairman, in the course of an interesting address, referred wilh satisfaction to the bright prospects of Home Pule, ami the successful launching <of the ' Home Rule Tribute.' The election of olfieers resulted as follows .—President, Dr. O'Donncll ; \ice-ipresidentsi, Messrs. M. P. Ja^eurs, M. Fennessy, and M. O'Sullivan ; treasurer, Mr. M. T. Gleeson ; secretary, Mr. E. Glennon ; committee, Messrs. E. Ryan, J. Waldron, E. Murphy, J. Cunningham, J Brolan, .J. Rtehiring, J. Murphy, T. Hogan, M. Fox, W. P. M'Mahon, 11. P. Duffy, R. Koaly, J. M' Allen. Mr. William Redmond, M.P., addressed an audience of 3G(¥) at Perth a few days ago on the Home FJule outlook. And, apropos of the member for Clare, everybody hasn't heard this story. On the occasion of his first \i<-it to Sydney in 1883, he was presented with a large gold medal commemorative of the occasion. The medal was somehow lost, and being massive gold, and likely in nine cases out of ten to represent a commercial rather than a sentimental value to the finder, hope of its recovery had long been abandoned. During his present visit, however, Mr. Redmond learned that he might recover it at a certain pawn shop on payment of tne charges. The inscription had been left intact through all the^e years. The owner, of course, lost no time in recovering a memento which he very miuch prized, and was able to wear it on the twenty-second anniversary of the occasion which it commemorated.