INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 13, 29 March 1906, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL.

Mr John Lynch, the last of the captains who- fought under Mr. Peter Lalor at the Eureka Stockade, is dead ; aged 80 years. Mr. Martin H. Donohoe, a native of Redfern, Sydney, and 'formerly an •' Evening News ' reporter, is now the Paris correspondent of the London ' Daily Chronicle. 1 The trial of Mr. Crick at the Sydney Criminal Court on a charge of corruption came to a sudden and sensational termination. Owing to the Crown case breaking down, the judge directed the jury to return a verdict of ' Mot guilty,' and Mr. Crick was discharged. The esteem and affection in which the Rev. E. J. Flanagan, the late parish priest of Kelso, and now attached to SS. Michael and John's Cathedral, Bathurst, is held was practically demonstrated the other day by his late parishioners, when he was made the recipient of a beautifully-engraved address and a purse containing 100 sovereigns. It is strange how certain traits of character run in families. At the Bendigo police court the other day George Washington was charged with chopping down trees on Crown lands. Like his illustrious namesake, he admitted his guilt, but as he had been previously convicted, hei 'was lined £5 for cutting and £1 for remove ing the umber. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has been pleased to make the following clerical changes and appointments in the Archdiocese. — Ihe Rev. M. Quinn, from St. Ambrose's, Wooriend, to St. Thomas', Drysdale ; the Rev. T. English, from Drysdale to Woodend, the Rev. M. J. Hayes, from St. Patrick's Cathedral to Kyneton ; the Rev. P. Raßerty, from St. Mary's, Kyneton, to St. Monica's, Essendon , the Rev. M. Finan, from St. Ambrose's, Woodend, to St. Joseph's, Collingwood. Miss Amy Castles has been offered, by Mr. George Edwardes an engagement in a new comic opera which he will produce in the spring at Daly's Theatre. The salary named is stated to be £100 a week, with the prospect of an early inciease. Miss Castles has, however, been advised not to undertake the work, on -the ground that it would probably prejudice her chances of success in grand opera at Covent Garden, and she has practically decided against it. She continues to have numerous concert engagements, and will make her first appearance in oratorio at Bristol shortly. Mr. James Ilcgan, hon treasurer of the Little Sisters of the Poor, writes as follows to the Melbourne ' Advocate ' : ' The late George Coppin acted as joint hon. treasurer with the writer for the building fund of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and took a great interest in t<he good work of the Little Sisters, and always gave them a generous support. To show the deep interest he took 1 in iheir noble work, he proffered to start an endowment fund with £100, and when I communicated with the Little Sisters and ascertained that they could not accept an endowment, he felt disappointed. It is due to the memory of such a good citizen that his charitable actions should not be forgotten.' When in Sydney Mr. William Redmond, M.P., promised to call the attention of the late Father Dalton's friends in Ireland to tne memoi'Tal chapel to p*e erected to his memory at Riverview College. The last'Englishi mail brought a draft for £3t3 3s, including a donation of £5 from Mr. John Redmond and himself. Mr. Redmond also sent letters, from which we make the following extracts : — Lord Chief Baron Palles writes : ' I have great pleasure in enclosing checfue for twenty guinaas for the proposed memorial chapel at Riverview to Father John Dalton. Mv recollection of his kindness and affability extends back upwards of sixty years, and it is a great satisfaction to me to have a part, although a small one, in perpetuating his memory in a place so peculiarly associated with his memory as is Riverview College. I thank you sincerely for having given me the opportunity of doing so.' Sir Francis Cruise writes : ' With great pleasure I join in the movement you kindly inaugurated to do honor to my dear old friend's memory. I have known Father Dalton since 1848 — and loved him all the time. "NTo better or more lovable man ever liver!.' General Sir William Butler also writes i ' I hawe pleasure in sending herewith a cheque towards the memorial chapel in Sydney to the late Fa 1 her Dalton. What a history would be that of the Irish missionary priest if it could be written ! '