INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 8, 21 February 1901, Page 20

INTERCOLONIAL.

The Rev. Father McGlone, pastor of Lithgow, New South Wales, met with a fatal aociient on the eveninir of Junuary IH. The rev. gentleman was out udmg. when his hor-o became restive and threw it= rider. In falling Fath 1 r McGlone's foot cany ht in the stirrup, and he was dragged for a distance of abo.it 100 yards. When picked up he was in a terrible condition, and died an hour afterwards. Great regret was felt by all d,i^t"< in the district at Father McGlone's sad death, and the attendance- at the funeral, which was representative of all denomination-'. bho\ved the esteem in which he was held. The Rev. J. B. Ronald, in his sermon at the South Melbourne Presbyteriau Church on the Sunday after the death of the Queen, referred to the fact that the Orange institution did all in its power to prevent the late Queen from at-oendirg the throne. He «-aid ' The most noticeable feature of the Queen's lire and re'gn had been her Catholicity. It was well known that the Emancipation and civil rights of the Roman Cathol'cs were quietly but firmly advocated by her Majesty, and that under her reign it was made possible for a Jew (Disraeli) to hold oflice as Premier of L^igland. Strange to say, however, it was because of this same Catholicity that a plot to kidnap the Queen was concocted by a cla-M who to-Jay profess intense loyalty to the throne, which showed the great change towards the brotherhood of man that had taken place during her reign. On Sunday, January 27, at most of the Catholic churches in Sydney, touching reference was made to the death of the Queen. At St. Mary's Cafhedral the munied bells were solemnly tolled. At 11 o'clock Mass his Eminence the Cardinal-Archhi-,bop delivered an eloquent discourse on the Queen's reign. In token of mourning, the sanctuary, altar, and pulpit were draped in black, relieved with white ribbon in many cas»e a , which imparted an addition il aspect of solemnity to the occasion. Underneath the pulpit was a crown worked in white roses. At the conclusion of the Mass the organist played the Dead March in ' Saul. 1 In the course of his sermon his Eminence said : ' God alone is truly great. It is only the joys and blessings of Providence that are eternal, and no one more vividly realised this than the departed Queen who now sleeps in death. And yet how wonderful had been the reign which had now rome to a close, and how marvellous in many ways. Of the long line of rnonarchs from the Anglo-Saxon days to our own time, not a singe British sovereign had reigned so long as the departed Queen. Again in that brilliant array of sovereigns, there was no one whose dominion had been so world -wide or whose domain had been t-o vast as that of her departed Majesty the Queen. And, best and noblest of all that long line of hovereigns, no one had been more sincerely beloved and mourned not only by her own subjects, but by millions throughout the world at large as Queen Victoria.'