INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 27, 6 July 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

The Very Rev. Thomas Hartley, 0.0.C., Provincial of the Irish haralnch of the Carmelite Order, accompanied hy the Rev. Patrick Canavan, 0.C.C., is on a visit of inspection of the various Carmelite foundations in the Australian States, and it is priobable that his visit will extend over several, months. Randwick Town Hail was crowded on the occasion of the parishioners' parting with the Very Rev. Peter Treand, M.S.H., Superior of the Order of the Sacred Heart, who has left for the meeting of the Chapter of the Ofcider in Europe. The farewell took the form of the presentation of ah address, at which the leading parishioners and many visitors were present. ' The Diamond Episcopal Jubilee of Arc(hbishop Murphy, of Hobarfc, is to be celebrated in October by clearing off the debt of £1200 on the college he is completing in Hobart, in commemoration of his having attained his ninetieth birthday anniversary. This event was celebrated on Sunday, June 18, by special devotions at St. Mary's, Hobart. Congratulations have been received by him from all parts of the State and Commonwealth. By the R.M.S. ' Oroya,' which sailed.' on June 17; the Rev. J. Slullivan, S.J., of St. Ignatius' College, Rhewiew, left for Europe, where lie will complete his studies for ordination. He was born in Melbourne, and was educated at St. Patrick's College, Melbourne, which is conducted by the Jesuit Fathers. After passing the Matriculation Examination in 1894, he joined the Jesuit Order. When. -his novitiate and earlier studies at Loyola were completed he went to Riverview, where he s^ent seven years as a master. May 30 was the 25th anniversary of the ordination of the Re I.1 '. D. O'Kennody, P.P. of Cowra., and the cliente l ient would have received due celebration had not the popular priest absolutely forbidden any such tax upon a willing flock. Father O'Kennedy, who is a native of Ballinacally, County Clare, Ireland, was one of thd first fri its of St. Charles' Seminary, Bathurvr, established by the first Bishop, Dr. Maithew Qi?inn, and which later m became merged in the diocesan College of St. Stanislaus. Bilhop Dunne, of Wilcannia, in the course of an interview respecting Mr. Reid's statement that he (the Bishop) had protested against the socialistic aims of the Labor party as propounded in his diocese, expressed himself as surprised and greatly annoyed at Mr. Reid's misrepresentation of his Views. llt is not f?.,ir,' • the Bishop said. ' I did not attack the Labor party. On ttie contrary, I explicitly declared my opinion that the aims and ambitions of the party were sound. What I did protest against was the abuse of moral teaohmg;s by organs for which the party is responsible, artf the revolutionary, immoral, and irreligious declarations .of isolated members of the party in Broken Hill, whic^, I • was careful to say, were repudiated by and alliorrer.t io the great body of the party.' At the Austral Society's Competition, recently concWiwi at Bendisjo, Victoria (writes a correspondent), a scholarship, open to. pupils cf the State and Catholic schools, was offered, subject to certain conditions, and was won by Eugene Gorman, a pupil of the Marist Brothers, Bendigo, who carried off the pme with fiving Colors aejainst 26 competitors. 'It entitles him to three years' education at any college in the Commonwealth, and he has selected the Marist Brothers' College, Sydney. He is at the present time enjoying another scholarship that he won last Christmas, and whirh was the giflt of the Hibernian Society. Previous to that he was the dux of -tins Morist Brothers' School for two years. Master Gorman, who is only 14 years of age, is a toy with charming manners, ami is a general favorite. Sub-Inspector Burke, of Queensland police, who retires after 39 years' service 1 in the Queensland Police Department, is a native of ft ?i way, Ireland, and'enltered the service in December, 1866, when 21 years of age. He played a prominent par in the capture of the offender who stuck up and robfc d the Brisb'ane>-Tpswich mail. He served on the Western rorttder till 1872, and did duty in connection with a ong list of crimes, including the arrest of Griffin for m lrdering two troopers, which crime Rolf Boldrewood ha? written of lately. Bjiri-e received a reward of £100 from the Maranoa Cattlestealiwr Prevention Association for zeal and activity in suppressing cattlfc-s-tieialittg. Leaving Roma the citizens presented him with a gold watch, and his brotherofficers added a gold chain \ahd locket. He served p.t the most southern stations Vnd finished in Brisbane. Mr. Burkes career, which is closely connected with the early settlement of Queensland, hsfe been very eventful.