INTERCOLONIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 8, 20 February 1902, Page 7

INTERCOLONIAL.

The Adelaide Southern Cross state* that the Irish athlete, M M. Rosengrave, who met with su 'h a severe accident in Auckland when training for a hurdle race last November, is now out of the hospital and able to get about with the aid of a stick. The Rev. John M'lnerney, S.J., has been appointed chiplain to the Commonwealth Contingent, Father M'lnerney, who is well known throughout Australia as a miesioner, is a brother of M r ijor T. M. M'lnerney, who went to Houth Africa with the First; Victorian Contingent, and who has since been appointed ti the positio-i of Judge -Advocate at Johannesburg. Father M'ln< racy sailed by the Columbian. In the course of an interview his Eminence Cardinal Moran informed a representative of the Freevian's Jaurnal that he had decided to set out for Rome on the 26th inst. His Eminence will trayel by the Ophir. Asked a* to the length of his absence, the Cardinal said that he would spend three months in Rome and a similar period in Ireland, and would leave the latter place in time to arrive in Sydney on Ist November. His Eminence will therefore be absent from Australia about eight months. The Catholic schools have come out with distinction in the New South Wales Public Service Examinations. The Public Service Board has received the report of the Board of Examiners regarding the results of the examination held for admission to the clerical and professional divisions of the public service. These examinatiocs took place during December at Sydney and at 40 country centres. Two hundred and fifty-nine candidates (says the Catholic Press") competed for junior clerkships, and 30 for professional cadetships (draughtsmen 18 and engineers 12). The numbers have not been exceeded at any previous examination. In all 43 students succeeded, and the Catholic schools received 10 passes. The number of competing echools was large, and the Catholic successes are therefore all the more notable. The death is reported of Mr. William Ellard, who under the pen-nama of ' Timothy Fogarty ' had been for a number of years a contributor to the Sydney Freeman's Journal. Mr. Ellard, who was in his 77th year, had been for 36 years a resident of Sydney. He was a native of Mountmellick, Queen's County, Ireland, where he was born on January 12, 1825. At one time deceased held a position in the Treasury, Sydney, and subsequently in the Government Statistician's Office. Though not a Catholic, the late Mr. Ellard joined the ranks of Freeman contributors in the days when the journal was waging war against ihe forces of bigotry which had marshalled themselves under the fostering aegis of the late Sir Henry Parkes. In those days of hard-hitting oontroversy Mr. Ellard was ready both with tongue and pen to enter tbe lists for Ireland or the Catholic cause, when both were maligned by unprincipled bigot j .