Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 16 July 1914, Page 51

Intercolonial

■' We very deeply regret to record Hint the Veil. Archpriest Hennebry, rector of St. Joseph’s, Hobart, lies at present very seriously ill at his residence in Hobart (.says the Monitor). Intimation has been received that, owing to illhealth, Father Bernard Vaughan, S.J., will be unable to accept the Catholic Federation’s invitation to undertake a lecturing tour throughout Australia (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Freeman’s Journal). In connection with the silver jubilee of St. Patrick’s Ecclesiastical College, Manly, the ex-students belonging to the archdiocese of Sydney entertained the visiting alumni, who had come from other States for the celebrations, also the professors and ex-professors of Manly and Springwood Colleges, at luncheon at the Wentworth Hotel. The Rev. J. M. Kelly (Adm., Haymarket) presided, and there were present 75 priests, including all the professors and ex-professors of the two colleges. When Mr. Dan O’Brien— iron grey, hut hearty and robust—stepped on to the platform at the overflow Home Rule meeting at the- Town Hall, Sydney (says the Freeman’s Journal), he was loudly cheered. The huge assemblage had recognised the one-time owner of Carbine, who lived his twenty-seven years to see Home .Rule almost an accomplished fact. The cheer was sympathetic, and Mr. O Brien, who bowed his acknowledgments, must have wished that he had, standing beside him, the equine idol of Australasia. - The honor of a Papal Knighthood has been conferred on Mr. John Rigney, East Maitland, by his Holiness Pope Pius X., in recognition of the recipient’s, services to the Church for many years. Mr. Rigney belongs to a fine old Irish family, that has given many of its members to the priesthood, and convent life, but has lived a reserved life himself, taking no part in public affairs. A few years ago he placed at the disposal of the diocese of Maitland a sum of XIO,OOO, for the purpose of assisting the diocesan schools to reach a high standard. The death occurred on June 9 of Dr. Eugene Glynn at the residence of his brother, Dr. Robert Glynn, of Riverton. Dr. Eugene Glynn (says the Adelaide Southern Cross), who was also a brother of the Minister of External Affairs (Hon. P. McMahon Glynn), had been ill for the past six months. He was a bachelor, and was in his 49th year. The Kapunda correspondent of the Adevertiser wrote on June 11: —‘Though not unexpected, it was /nevertheless a shock when the news reached Kapunda this morning of the death of Dr. Eugene McMahon Glynn, which occurred at the residence of his brother (Dr. Robert Glynn) at Riverton. St. Mary’s Dominican Convent, West Maitland, the Mother-House of the Dominican Order in Australia,, on June 6 was the scene of a unique silver jubilee;: unique, because of the fact that the jubilarian was theMother Prioress of the Order and the first Australian to occupy that exalted office (says the Catholic Press).. Twenty-five years ago, as Miss Josephine de Lauret, adaughter of the de Guerry de Lauret family, of ‘ Wynella,’ Goulburn, she became a member of . the Dominican community at Maitland, as Sister Mary Joseph, her twin sister, Sister Mary Clare, now of Strathfield Convent, having already made her vows in. the same Order, ,