INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 31, 3 August 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

It is intended to accord a public welcome to ArchibUshop O'Reily on his return to Adelaide from Europe. Bishop Murray, of Maitland, celebrated the 39tt anniversary of his departure from Ireland on July 21. At the opening of the new presbytery at Lochinvar fc his Lordship made reference to his long residence ir Australia. The Sisters- oi St. Joseph, Annandale, are very proud of a little pupil of theirs who has just ob tamed the diploma of Associate of the London College of Music, at the age of twelve years. Cecilia Kirby is the name of this clever little maid. A man named M'Gann, who is over the century, in an inmate of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Randwick. He remembers Waterloo, Daniel O'Connell, and the times of the early nineteenth century, and says he can walk to Sydney. In the course of a letter to the clergy of the archdiocese of Sydney his Eminence Cardinal Moran saysi : The Archbishops and Bishops of Australia will be assemibjUhig .within a few weeks in Sydney to celebrate the Third Plenary Synod of the Australian Church. On the 2nd September next our Cathedral of St. Mary's will be solerojnly consecrated, and on the following day the First Public Session of the Plenary Synod will be held. His Eminence the Cardinal, accompanied by Monsignor O'Haran, visited Forest Lodge on Sunday, July 16, for the purpose of blessing the foundation stone of the additions to St. James's girls' and infants' new parochial schools, conducted by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. The present building and land cost £2000, and the proposed extensions and additions will cost £1400. The school will accommodate 400 children. A monster public meeting,, for the purpose of inaugurating the Home Rule tribute from Australia, was held in the Town Hall, Sydney, on Friday evening. Cardiinal Moran presides, and Mr. W. Redmond, M.P., delivered a farewell speech. Prior to the meeting the following subscriptions were announced :— His Eminence the Cardinal, £100 ; Mr. Jas. Dalton (Orange), £100'; Mr. T. J. Dalton, £100 ; ana Dr. Kearney (Parramatta), £100. The meeting subscribed close on £2000. The diamond jubilee of Mother Mary Stanislaus' entry into the Presentation community was celebrated ai St. Mary's Cathedral, Hobart, on Sunday, July 16, with much ceremony. 'Though 82 years of age, shf looks wonderfully hale. The Rev. Mother came to Tasmania with Dr. Murphy in 1865, and she has been actively engaged in Church work ever since. The Cathedra? was thronged. At a luncheon at the convent given by the committee of the old pupils of Mother Stanislaus, the guests included his Excellency the Governor and Lady Edeline Strickland, Sir John and Lady Dodds, his Grace the Archbishop of Ilobart, Dr. Murphy, Dr. Delatiy, the Premier, an\d many leading citi/zens. Lady Edeline Strickland presented on behalf of tfie donors an illuminated address to Mother Mary Stanislaus. Writing of the death of Dr Kevin Izod O'Doherty, the Brisbane correspondent of the • Freeman's Journal ' says :— ' His genial and unselfishn selfish nature attracted all classes and creeds to him, whilst his eminent qualitiei. as a medical adviser were eagerly sought after. To thos<unable to pay a fee, he would say : " I would rathei give you a guinea than take one." How popular h<was with his medical brethren may be inferred from the* fact that when the shadows of life were coming ovej him, and his dosing velars were fast coming to the end, two of our city doctors, to their everlasting credit anc 1 remembrance be it said, took upon themselves to do the duties which the Queensland Government, in their good ness, allotted him. For 'years Drs. Marks and Thompson have filled those duties so as to allow the salary attached to the appointment to go to their old friend. Dr. O'Flynn (Ipswich) also did duty for Dr. O'Doherty when the latter was uriable to attend to patients Rarely do we meet with suoh professional unselfishness and such attachment and heroic devotion to the persor of one of themselves.'