Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 8 February 1917, Page 47

Intercolonial

Two former pupils of the Christian Brothers are now Archbishops in Australia : —Archbishop Spence, of ; Adelaide (who celebrated his 56th birthday on January' 13), and Archbishop Duhig, of Brisbane. The late Archbishop Dunne, of Brisbane, is succeeded by his Coadjutor (Most Rev. Dr. James Duhig), who was appointed titular Archbishop of Amida and Coadjutor of Brisbane with the right of succession in 1912. ' He was born at Broadford, County Limerick,, in 1871, and came to Queensland at an early age. • He. was educated by the Christian Brothers and at the Irish College, Rome, and was appointed Bishop of Rockhampton in 1905, being then the youngest bishop in the British Empire. Rev. Father Jorgensen, who died at 72 years of age in Adelaide recently, was for 32 years a keen Lutheran. As a young fellow he took a course of classics at the Copenhagen University, and started business as a pharmaceutical chemist in that country. He came to Australia in 1871, and for a number of years conducted a chemist’s shop at Gawler, South Australia. In 1877 he commenced the study for the priesthood. 1 He finished his studies in 1882, at Propaganda College, and, after being ordained, took charge of a mission in Eyre’s Peninsula. During a recent sectarian squabble in Queensland, a letter appeared in one of the daily papers, which contained the following statement; ‘Should Bishop Le Fanu, the Rev. Mr. Gradwell, or any other militant Churchman be desirous of making inquiries with a view to ascertain the proportion of Catholics earning in excess of .£250 per annum in the various departments, in one at least the result will be an eye-opener. In this department, presided over by a Catholic Minister, there are at present 47 officers receiving salaries in excess of the amount mentioned, and of this number 45 are Protestant, the religion of one cannot be ascertained, and the remaining one is a Catholic.’ On Thursday last (says the Catholic Press of January 25) Sir Edmund Barton, senior puisne Judge of the High Court, celebrated his 68th birthday. Every Australian will wish him many happy returns of the day. Since he went on the Bench the public have lost sight of him and, although he is still alive, he has already become a historical character. Barton always had the good will and support of the Irish in Australia. He was always a Home Ruler. In a conversation in London with a special correspondent of the Temps, ho said: ‘I am not fully "conversant with the question of Home Rule ; but I realise an undeniable fact. It is that out of their own country the Irish show remarkable capabilities as lawyers, and as members of all the liberal professions. We ask in Australia why the sons of Ireland cannot govern their own country when they are able to draw up and interpret the laws and constitutions of other nations The community received quite a shock last Friday (says the Catholic Press of January 25) by. the sad intelligence that the Rev. Father Joseph Kelly, who had been in charge of three since the/death of Father O’Reilly, was drowned on the previous day at Mitchell Island, near . the mouth of the Manning . River. Memories of the sad death of his brother, Father James Kelly/who was drowned on his way to celebrate Mass near Singleton- some few years ago, - were' revived, and the deepest sympathy was evoked for his third brother in the priesthood, Father John Kelly, of . Newcastleall of them students of - St. Patrick’s College, Manly,’ and for their fourth' brother, Mr. Thomas Kelly, of Hamilton, and their two sisters, one of whom is a ! Sister of Mercy. . • -V-r