A Memorial.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 24 July 1902, Page 29

A Memorial.

A monument has been erected in the ltookwood cemetery, Sydney, to the memory of the late Mr. Charles O'Neill, who, it is stated, &tai>, ted the first conference of the St. Vincent do Paul Society m New Zealand. He was the iirst president of the Society in Syidney Mi O'Neill (says the ''Freeman's " Jorum nal ') was born of Irish parents in Glasgow in tho year 1828, and adopted the profession of a civil engineer In this profession he rose cvuickly, and it was within his capabilities to ama.s>s wealth, ajid live a life of com* parative luxury. But he was a man of other ambitions To assist the poor was his dearest aim, and that ideal he kept before him with unwearying fidelity all through lite Coming to Sydney from New Zealand in IHSO, wheie, m Chi istchur,c h ■ he had (irmly established the St. Vincent de Paul Society, he at once set about establishing 'a branch m the queen city of the Southern Hemisphere As in mosi undei takings that .ne dc-si vied lo flourish his efioMs nut with considei able opposition nninv assui ing him thatj there was no need foi such an <>iga.iusation in Australia Bui wnln tho eves oi chaiity he saw different-! ly to otheis, who, though mote, world lv wise perhaps than be ha<t the interest of indigent Immunity less at lieai t With thu assistance of tho 'Marist Fathers he eat i ied his project tin ough, with the lesultthat at the time oi his death theie vv <-i ij something hkn IVA branches of the, society firmly established m theauhdiocese _\o two hguies Wen> betlei known in t lie streets of Svdius than those ot Charles O'Neill and his In o-< ther .John, who was his nisepai a bio companion, and who died a few months after the decease of Ins bi othor , and t het.e was no leliirious undertnkung of whatever soi t but their) conspicuous ligures wei c in evidence Chailes died at HI Vincem s Hospital on Novem'bei 8, I'KK), lv.m de-> voted brothel lollowing him seven months hitei , on June I.'!, IDOL A lengthy volume could be written concerning tho attachment of the tw <* bi others, and the many anecdotes of pathetic simplicity, mutual forbearance and self-sacrifice of the two pious men, who lnoid mote in heaven than on eaith. They both share, tho same grave, and the monument commemorates both