Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 30 July 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

Mr. T. J. Dalton, K.C.S.G., has been elected president of St. Mary's Cathedral (Sydney) branch of the Hibernian" Society.

The 'Advocate' reports the death of Canon Robert Potter, M.A., an Anglican clergyman, of Melbourne. "-- Mr. Potter was a patriotic Irishman, and he evinced interest in Ireland on many occasions. He attended the Grattan Centenary banquet and other events.

The Very Rev. Dean McAuliffe, of Forbes, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordination as a priest on Sunday, July 5. He has been 27 years in the Forbes - parish. At the 11 o'clock Mass on that day the choir rendered special music in honor of the occasion. The Dean feelingly returned thanks for the graceful tribute.

His Lordship Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Wilcarinia, has made some recent changes in his diocese. He has cut off Moaraa,. Mathoura, and Wamboota from trie • Deniliquin parish, and formed them into a separate mission, with the Rev. Father W. B. Tobin, of Wentworth, in charge. Rev. Father D. Hennessey, of Broken Hill, goes to Wentworth, and Rev. Father K. Behan, of Deniliquin, goes to Broken Hill.

The death is announced of Rev. Mother Mary John Evangelista, of St. Brigid's Convent of Mercy, Midland Junction, Western Australia. The deceased religious /»was the daughter of the late Dr. Stewart, M.A., who was a personal friend of Cardinal Newman, and on the foundation of the Catholic University in Dublin had the honor of a professor's chair under iis first distinguished rector. She came out to Western Australia in 1883, and two years later was professed.

The prisoners in New South Wales gaols manufactured goods last year to the value of They supply clothing for aborigines and State children, bags for tram conductors, brooms for Government offices, boots for the police, and socks fot persons in other Government departments. At Bathurst and Goulburn prisoners till some 80 acres of land, and altogether an excellent beginning has been made a in utilising prison labor in varied industries.

The Catholic ladies of Sydney and suburbs have taken up the proposed Catholic reception to the American Fleet with enthusiasm. In each parish a committee has been formed for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements to augment the fund of the reception committee. At the suggestion of his Eminence the Cardinal, one lady from each parish has been appointed to an Executive Committee to work in conjunction wkh the gentlemen's committee. ■

By the death of Sir Thomas Naghten Fitzgerald, of Melbourne, Australia has lost an- eminent surgeon and the Irish race in the Commonwealth a distinguished kinsman. The late' Sir Thomas Fitzgerald was the son of. John Fitzgerald, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, and ha.ving been born at Tullamore, Ireland, on August i, 1838, had almost completed his 70th * year. He was educated at St. Mary's College, Kingstown, and subsequently at the Ledwich School of Medicine, Dublin, and received hospital training in Mercer's Hospital, where he was pupil of, and dresser to, the famous surgeon, Mr. Butchar. In 1857 he passed the final examination for the diploma of Licentiate Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and came out to Victoria the following year. The eminent surgeon's services to the cause of medicine and modern surgery were recognised by the late Queen Victoria in 1897, when she conferred on him the honor of knighthood. For the last forty years (says the ' Age ') Sir Thomas Fitzgerald has been recognised as the leader of the medical profession in Victoria, and has been regarded by the profession generally as being not only the foremost surgeon in Australia, but one whose fame as a surgeon was of worldwide repute, and whose name was inscribed amongst the names o.f the highest in his profession. The most eminent surgeons of all the leading cities of Australia had been his pupils. Sir Thomas Fitzgerald was a man who would have been eminent in any walk of life, " for he had all the qualities that combine for human success — untiring energy, patience, concentration, and love of work.