Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9, 5 March 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

The Very Rev. G. O'Farreil, 0.P., after a long stay in St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, consequent upon? his serious accident near Molong, has returned to North Adelaide. He is st(ill on crutches, and it will be some time ' before he has the use of his injured limb. The Rev. T. Dooley died on February 10, at the residence of his Lordship Dr. Gibney, at Perth, as the result of an apoplectic seizure. He was 71 years> of age, and was a native of Longford, Ireland. Hie had spent I-Jiirty years in Western Australia.. Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Northcote were present at the Requiem .High Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, tor the repose of the souls cf the late 'Kin? Carlos and the late Crown Prince of Portugal. Sir Reginald Taljot, Governor of Victoria, was also present. - • • The death is reported of the Very "Rev. William M. Wa»lsh, pastor of Townsvdlle.-.who passed away on February 16 at the residence of his sister, Mrs. T. Dalton, senr., Willoughby, New South Wales, at the age of 65 years.. Father Walsh was born in the diocese of Waterford, and in 1856 he entered Mount Melleray College. Two years* later/ he| pursued hi's studies at All Hallows College, Dulb'lin, was. ordained priest in the year 1864., and was appointed to the diocese of Brisbane (Q). Sufcse Iquently he 1 wasattached to the American missions for s a tin?e, biut returned -to; Brisbane., !/U)Out., f twenty-five years ago Father Walsh was "appointed" to Tbwnsville, where he remained in charge "till his death. - On his return to Cairns from his visit to Rome, the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Queensland, was given an enthusiastic welcome by^his people. • During bis absence in Europe, and without his knowledge, they hadi prepared a fine- new residence for him. In replying to addresses of welcome, -his Lordship said that if he could 1 ta^e them up to St. Monica I ' s Presbytery, ani conduct them tfarauph the magnificent .mansion, there we're voices there silent, but eloquent, "that ha^l spoken to him that morning. ' There „was a, house prepared without his Knowledge or co-operation, of which a prince rn'ight be proud). To all residents of the district he tendered his most sincere and heartfelt thants. The Arch'_ftshop-elect of Hobart will leave Hoiblart for Rome on March 7. Immediately after the interment of the late Archibishop Dr. Delany cabled to the Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda formally notifying to the Holy See the death of his predecessor, and petitioning for the necessary faculties. His Eminence Cardinal", Gotti promptly replied, granting all that was asked for, viz., all necessary faculties and power to perform certain pontifical acts. His Eminence also kindly promised at the next Ccnsiislory to postulate for the palliutml in thei Archbi .'hop-elect's name. The next Consistory will, it is said in Rome papers just to. hand, be held in March. Dr. Delany will be .in Rome -very soon after, a nd will thence proceed to Ireland, where he hopes to_ secure a foundation of teaching Brothers ior , Tasmania. >£ The. Christian Brothers' Collage, Perth, has once?'agiain given' the Rhodes Scholar to. Western Australia. The Selection Committee, consisting of the Acting-Gj^Vr-ernor, Chief Justice Burnside, the Minister for Education, and the '.Inspector-General -of- "the - Stajbev-S.ohoo|s, have selected Mr. J. W. Horan, of. the Christian Brothers' College, as this year's candidate for Oxford. Mr. Horan, who holds a record of which lie has good' reason to be proud, was* born at. Mitoham; Victoria, and went to the Western iSta'ta eleven years ago, when his parents settled on the goldfields. In 1901 he commenced nis scholastic successes by being the first" boy frofn the goldfields to pass the Adelaide Primary University Examinations. In 1903 he took up his residence as boarder in the Christian Brothers'. College, . Perth ; / the following year (1904) he'was placed first in .West .Australia and second in the two States" (South-arid "Western Australia) on- the general honors -.list of the Adelaide Junior University. He passed in the maximum number of .subjects, ten, securing honors in five,!; in this ' examination -he had to compete against o\ e\ 700 candidates. ■ • For this distinction he was •• awarded the first of the five Government exhibitions of £15. In 1905 he tied with ' a South Australian boy for first pla^e in University Seiftor of all the under-age student® from South- and West Australia. In 1906 he secured the first of the Government Exhibitions of £25 "from all Westralian students in the Senior University, whilst at the end of 1907 he crowned Wis previous successes by obtaining first place in the State in the Adelaide Higher Public University Examination. His" .successes include first-class - honors in Latin, Greek, German, French, English, Trigonometry, Algebra, and Geology. <