INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 33, 17 August 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

Inspector Hervey Fitzgerald, of Rockhampton, retires- from the police force on a pension. He has bad 39 years' service. In the second Deakin Ministry there are three Tasmanians — Sir William Lyne, Senator Keating, and Mr. T. T. Ewing (Vice-President of the Executive Council).

The Brisbane people are taking steps to raise a memorial to the late Dr. Kevin Izod O'Doherty. The Irish Association has held a meeting, and the f^und promises to achieve its objects of providing a memorial, and also making provision for Mrs. O'Doherty. The Right Rev. Mgr. O'Haran, of Sydney, is an old college mate and personal friend of both Mr. William Redmond and Mr. John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, all three having been at Clongowes Wood, the principal college of the Jesuit Fathers in Ireland, at the same time.

Prior to leaving Sydney Mr. William Redmond received from Mr. T, Brien a case of choice Emperor mandarins, as a momento of the visit of the Irish delegates (Messrs. Dillon, Deasy, and Sir Thomas Esmonde) to Australia in 1889, The fruit was picked from a tree planted by Mr. John Dillon in Mr. Brien's orange 'grove at ' Hollywood,' near Parramatta. '

One of the most popular members of the Irish Rifles Corps in Sydney, Sergeant M. A. Fallon, met his death under very sad circumstances on Saturday afternoon, July 29. He was engaged with others of the carps in a competition at the Randwick Rifle Range, and was lying down to take aim when a bullet from a rifle, which a comrade accidentally stumbled over, hit him, and killed him instantly. After a Reqluiem Mass at St. Patrick's Church on Monday, the remains were interred with military honors in the Wav-erley Cemetery. The late Mr. Fallon was born in Strokestown, Coufnty Roscommon, Ireland, 45 years' ago, and had been a resident of New South Wales for 18 years. DuTing the past 11 years he had been employed as commissionaire in the head office of the Bank of New South' Wales. He was a devotied Catholic, and an uncompromising nationalist, and always identified himself with every national movement.

Much sympathy has gone out to Dr. A. L. Kenny, K.S.G., his father, Mr. J. Kenny (one of' Victoria's most-res pec ted citizens), the Rev. J. Kenny, and the other members of the family, at the lamented and sudden death of Mrs. J. Kenny, a model wife and mother, who gave to the Church a priest, and to the ranks of the laity the well-known and higMy-respected specialist of Collins-streets Dr. Aloysius Leo Kenny (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the ' Freeman's Journal '). If for no Other reason the Church in Australia owes the latter gentleman a debt of gratitude for his eminent and valuable services as hon. secretary of the Second Australasian Congress. Mrs. Kenny fried on July 27, after a few hours' illness. A great gathering of the clergy and laity wer© present at the Requiem in St. Patrick's Cathedral. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne presided at the Office, and Requiem High Mass. His Grace paid a tribute of praise to the memory of the deceased lady.

When distributing the prizes in connection with the competitions in. St. Joijeptt's Hall, Colling' k wood,\Pre-mier-Bent, surrounded by the members for the district and the adjoining electorate, said : Catholics had nobly responded to their duties regarding education. In addition to contributing to the system of Government instruction, they had put their hands in their pockets, and had their children taught in the way they desired. And the work was* done creditably, too. When he went to Parliament it was with the Intention of acting without favor to the people of any creed or class. He had been taught to respect the feeling® of others. Of the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Metbburne he would say if any man would go to heaven it would be that dignitary. Archbishop Carr certainly was a Christian gentleman. The Rev. Father Carroll, in introducing him (Mr. Bent), had made a veiled reference to what had been said recently by a clergyman of another denomination. The charge had bifen made that he had connived "with Archbishop Carr to 'prevent the people exercising their wishes fully and freely on the 'question of the referendum respecting the introduction of religious lessons into State schools. In his best and plainest English he had told the rev. gentleman who had made the charge what he thought.