OBITUARY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20060, 5 October 1939, Page 2

OBITUARY

MRS. A. D. BARTRAM FORMERLY OF TOLAGA After a painful illness, a former Tolaga Bay resident, Mrs. A. D. Bartram, died on Monday in Auckland, aged 4G years. Mrs. Bartram had been-’ ill fbr the past two years, w The deceased was formerly Miss Breir.gan, of Auckland, and most of the 17 years of her married life were spent in Tolaga Bay. Five years ago Mr. and Mrs.- Bartram left the district to: live in Auckland. Sympathy in hi? bereavement will be extended to the widower and the deceased’s three sisters, all of Auckland. There were no children by the marriage. The burial took place yesterday In Auckland. CARDINAL MUNDELEIN CRITIC OF THE NAZIS Cardinal George William Mundelein, Bishop of Chicago, whose death was reported this week, was bora in a poor quarter of New York. Of German origin, his family had been in the United States for a century. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1895 and became secretary to Bishop McDonnell, of Brooklyn, and pastor of the Lithuanian Church at Williamsburg. After toeing auxiliary Bishop ol Brooklyn from 190 G to 1915, he became Archbishop of Chicago. _ Nine years later he was made a Cardinal. A quiet man of scholarly tastes, he was a great worker and organiser, and fou’.ided and developed many Catholic sations..Cardinal Mundelein aroused the fury of the German Nazis toy a speech in May, 1937, in which he called Hitler “that Austrian paperhan-ger” and denounced his treatment- of the chinch. Every second person in Germany, he said, was a spy for the Government which was “trying to make pagans of the younger generation.” Catholics must not “take the thing lying down.’ Herr Hitler sent .protests to the Vatican, demanding that the Cardinal should be reprimanded, tout the Holy See flatly refused to do so, pointing out that the German Government had never stopped its 'Ministers from insulting the church, the Vatican and the .Pope. DEATH OF PIONEER One of the few remaining settlers who were in Canterbury before tre arrival of the first four ships. MrsClement Armstrong, has died in her ninety-first year. A daughter of Mr. Thomas Jackson. Hughes, Mrs. Armstrong, who was born at Tai iai, Hutt Valley, in 1848, was taken iO Lyttelton in 1849. Mr. Hughes .arrived at - Wellington in 1840, and first lived in a thatched vvhare at-Petone, but moved to Wellington when it was surveyed. He made three attempts to built a house in the Hutt Valley, but each time it was destroyed by the Maoris. During one attack by the natives. Mr. Hughes stayed at the house to keep them off, while Mrs. Hughes and her children,- - including Mrs. Armstrong, were hidden in a hollow rata tree, which had previously been chosen as a refuge'. All the other male sett•lers had gone t;o Wellington for stores! The house ytoich Mr. Hughes had built was later turned into a stockade.