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New Zealand Tablet, 3 September 1914, Page 34

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•;aii Well’

Since the outbreak of the war considerable anxiety has been felt in Catholic circles in New Zealand as to the whereabouts of his Grace Archbishop Redwood, the Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy (Rector of St. Patrick’s College), the Very Rev. Dean Regnault, S.M. (Provincial), and the Very Rev. Dean Holley (Wanganui), who were in Europe attending the General Chapter of the Marist Order and the Eucharistic Congress held at 'Lourdes. The following cable has now been received from Dean Holley from London, which sets all doubts at rest: ‘ Chapter concluded. All well.’

4 A Fine Example ’

tinder this heading, the Stratford Evening Post of August 13 has the following: ‘ Possibly the town of Stratford, in this far-off corner of the mighty Empire, has produced as fine an example of personal patriotism as one would bo able to discover in all King George’s realm. When, a father and his three sons leave homo and profession and all else behind at the country’s call to face the battlefield, it is a fine thing indeed. And this is what Colonel W. G. Malone, who is selected to command the battalion raised in the Wellington Military District, is doing. At duty’s' call he offers everything. It is such fine deeds that make our Empire really great. Stratford to-day is very proud to claim the Colonel and his sons as citizens.’ Colonel Malone is a lawyer by profession, and the family , are well-known Catholics in the Stratford district. We heartily associate ourselves with the Stratford paper’s well-merited tribute to these splendid specimens of Catholic manhood and citizenship.

A Correction

The news of the Right Rev. Mgr. O’Reilly’s death reached us on Wednesday morning just as we went to press, and in our necessarily hurried obituary notice we transferred from one of the daily papers ah incorrect statement to the effect that the deceased had been ordained by Bishop Croke. It was Bishop Pompallier and not Bishop Croke who ordained the late Monsignor O’Reilly to the priesthood; and this was correctly stated in the account of his career which we quoted from Mr. J. J. Wilson’s work. The Rev. Father Golden contributes to the Poverty Bay Herald of August 27 some further particulars regarding the deceased." ' ‘ Respecting Monsignor O’Reilly, whose death was announced yesterday,’ says the Herald, ‘Father Golden desires to make a few corrections. It was not Dr. Croke, as alleged, but Dr. Pompallier, who ordained the Monsignor to the priesthood. He received ordination in 1866, some five years before the arrival of Dr. Croke, who reached Auckland via San Francisco just at the Christmas of 1870. The deceased was in the 48th "year of his priesthood ; and he was parish priest of the Thames about 33 years, not 22 years as per telegram. Old settlers who had known deceased would like to see correct data regarding him. He was a fine Maori linguist, having learned the native language from his youth, for he was only nine years old when he came with his parents from Ireland. His theology, he acquired from the early French missionaries under Bishop Pompallier, the first Catholic Bishop of New Zealand and the Islands. It was Bishop Lexxihan who procured him the title of Monsignor for long and faithful services' in the diocese. The Catholic cemetery at Otahuhu is the family burial

place.’