INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1, 5 January 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

Very Rev. Father Lassetter, C.SS.R., a brother of Colonel LasseMer, is coming to Australia. Father Lassetter, w|h'o is a convert, is an eloqueait preacher. As a result of last half-year's operations, Sydney ' Freeman ' has paid a divideii'd of 8 per cemt. ; and after making due pro\isum for reserves, has carried forward a cctosiiderable balance of profits. The Government Statist of New South Wales on the 20Ui ult. i'Hiyue^i a lepolt on tihe wheat har\cst. He sets dowjn the estimated yield at 16,121,GU0 bushels, or 10.2 buslhels peir acre. 'I his is shrilly in excesls of the last defcetfmial average, viz., 9.9 bushels. M(uch inte/resit (writes a IVivlbdurne qorre^tondent) is beitag ejvinced in the approaching visit of tihe gireat 'Tempera/ice Ad'viqcate,' Rev. Fatlher Hays. A meetimg was hel/d last Sunday afternoon in the Cat/heidrtal H|all to mtaike fiinal artlangements for Jiis camipiaign. From the 17!fh to tihe 3.lst January, Melbourne and slurbs will occulpy tihe attention of Father Hays, vhio will also visit the country centres. DJuring. his brief stay in Sydney Mr. William Redm,om|d, M.P., reviewed adqiuaintfairtce witth m,any old frieaids — amongst them Coldnel Fredhill, with whom he !had a long chat over things National and otherwise. He was especially pleasdd to see the Oardinal, for he had not forgotten that whan he was iji KiJmaiinh&m in 1882 amldngst tihe earliest letters of sympathy and admiration was ane from the Most Rev. Dr. Moraji, Bibfiop of Ossory. Mr. William Redmdnd, M.P., and Mrs. RedmphM arrived in Sydney by the R.M.S. ' Ortfiir ' on December 16. T/hey had been warmly welcomed at Fremnntle, Adelailde, ?jnd Melbourine, and they were entfrtusiAstically pjreetad in Sidney. Mr. §,nd Mrs. Radmond were driven to tihe We'ntworth Hotel, where their JutaliMi was prop'osetl by Mr. J. F. Henne*py. Hundreds of the leading citizens of Sydney, including his Ciriace the Cc|a|djutorArchbishoip and several priest's, callqd on Mr. aaid Mrs. Reidimcflid. On Saturday Mr. Radmai^d and Mr. James Daltton visited the Cardinal <md had a ldnjg aludiqnee with his Enrinencb at the Palace, Manly. Mrs. Redm|omd, as is well known, is a ;da'ug!,Mex of Mr. James DaltJom, of Oriange. She has 'been 19 years ifn Irelland, said stie says sijie loves the cwintry and tiie climate, wtiidh certainly agrees with hex. Mr. Reidmioji)d ihas been in pcfor health for over 12 montjhs. He s/pc}nt some mpntths in Swit'/erlartd, a.nH he intends making a prole n?;ed sfjay in Aais r tralia. It is more than prpbahle that before he leaves he will address the people of Aluistralia. That granjd old veteran Iri^h baronet, Sir Bryan O'Ljoghlen (writes a Melbourne correspondent), hlas not been favored by the gifts of fortune, ajid has, in consequence, to aaoe'pt the tangible proof of thiose who atdmire sterling patriotism. He formed the twenty-fitst Victorian Minnsltry, 9th July, 1881 to Btji Marc^i, 1883, since which date there have been tan Ministries. He has been aj /prominent figure at Catholic ainkl Irish Natloinal gatheliings, and has ever maintained ttie best traditions of his noble Clare ancestral house. Just now an effort is being made to raise a fund whktfi will practically provide for his old age, now weighing it|s tfiireescore years c<n his honorable head. The Chairman of the Victorian Legislative Council (the Ho«. Nicholas Fitz.garalld, K.S.G./ M.L.C.) b.^ taken tihe iefa\di in Xhe proin|osod testimonial, and in reitipio'nse to a circular issuefd by the member fcor the So^tlienn Province, an influential meeting assembled in tiie Melbourne City Hall an the 16th i'nst., when the movement was formally l^urtdhed under very favoraTile auspices. The M^ayior was in the chair. Among those present were his Grace the ATctfibishQip, the Premier (Mr. Beint), Sir Mattliew H. Da\ies, Messrs. W. H. Irvine, M.L.A., Nicliolas Fitzgerald, K.S G.. M.L.C. , F. G. Duffy, K.C., Hon. J. G. Duffy, artd D. White. Resolutions ex",presvsive of the^es^teem iln which Sir Bryan O'Logfrlen was held amd of the respect Id^ue to him in return for the ser/viscesi he hte.il rendered the State, were passed, amd an influential committee was anointed to collect subscriptions to prtV/iKle a auhistantial tesitimani^l funjd. A suhsfcrin-tiotn list was Opened in the room, and a cansifderaWe sum oon»ttri'biute'd by t/hose present. Sir BryaSn is the third son of the late Right Hon. Sir Michael o'Losjhle»n, an Irish Judge, ■w»ha was created a 'baronet in 1838, arid was the first Gatityplic cai>s<H tb judicial office either in Enigl'and or Irellamjd after the revolution of IKBB. Six Bryain's ellder brother, Sir Colm'an O'Lojdhlfta, ■re'oreisegiitevi Clbtfe Dn tne Htause of Comnvons from lSffS to 1577. Sir B-ryain i^ now 76 years- of a>ge, atid has been 42 ye&tfs iln Victbrla. He miarrield a daufthtjer of fhe late James Majokay Sewaod, of Melboutne. >'