Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 21 May 1914, Page 51

Intercolonial

The Very Rev. Dean Tobin, of Armidale, in the course of an address at his welcome home, referred to the happiness of finding his mother in Ireland in the best of health, although in her 70's. On Sunday afternoon, May 3, in the presence of a large gathering, his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney blessed and laid the memorial stones of the new parish hall and primary school in St. Patrick's parish, Church Hill. For a long time past the necessity of these buildings has 'been deeply felt, and their erection has now been undertaken by the Marist Fathers at the heavy cost of over £7OOO. The Christian Brothers' College, Waverley, has been successful in getting four of its pupils through the examination held by the Commonwealth Public Service Board for clerkships last March. One of them, viz., L. J. Daley, claims the proud distinction of obtaining first place in New South Wales. The successful candidates are L. J. Daley, R. W. O'Brien, F. C. Graham, and E. Nevill. Mr. P. O'Loughlin, who, with Mr. J. L. Mullen, was elected to represent the 14,000 members of the H.A.C.B. Society of New South Wales at the opening of the Irish Parliament, when that event takes place,has been an active worker on behalf of the organisation since 1890 (says the .Freeman's Journal). For eleven years he was secretary of the St. Peter's branch, Surry Hills, a position he vacated on being elected General Secretary of the "Society for the State thirteen years ago. Mr. O'Loughlin, who is a Justice of the Peace for this State, is a native of County Galway, Ireland,

in which city his eldest brother occupied the position of Collector of Customs and Stamp Commissioner for the counties of Connaught for many years, prior to his removal to a similar position in Manchester. A Home Rule demonstration, organised by the United Irish League, was held in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, on May 4. The committee consisted of 86 members, with Dr. N. M. O’Donnell as president and Mr. M. P. Jageurs as general manager. There was an enormous attendance, Crowding the building in all parts, and estimated, according to the number given in the first resolution, at 40,000. Addresses were delivered at three platforms, well apart, and the same resolutions were carried at each platform. Announcements were made from the main platform by means of a bugle. The death occurred suddenly on Monday evening, May 4, at the Friary, Waverley, of Very Rev. Father E. Fisher, O.F.M. Father Fisher had been apparently in good health up to a short time before his decease. The deceased was only 51 years of age, and was just about to celebrate the silver jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood. He was a’ native of England, and had only returned from a trip abroad a few months ago. Death has claimed one of the oldest Sisters of Mercy in Australia in the person of Sister Mary Stanislaus Conan, who passed away at the Range Convent of Mercy, Rockhampton, on April 28, in her 75th year. The deceased nun was born in Tipperary, and sixteen years afterwards she dedicated herself to God at the Gort Convent of Mercy, Galway, and was professed a few years later. She was one of a band of professed Sisters' of Mercy, and postulants who came to Queensland in a sailing vessel in 1872, landing at Brisbane.