DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 31, 3 August 1905, Page 6

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) July 27. Rev. Father Furlong left for Gisborne last Tuesday to settle up his affairs there, and will return shortly to his parish of Devonport. Arrangements, for a social in aid of the; Surry Hills convent are in hand. The Sisters of St. Joseph deserve every assistance. The purchase of Gladstone Hall and adjoining gror&l at Birkenhead has been completed by his Lordship the Bishop, it is intended for school purposes. Next Monday evening the local branch of the H.AC.B. Society will celebrate its 32nd • anniversary in the Hibernian Hall by a social gathering. The committee of St. Benedict's bazaar is hard- at work. A young lady from Wellington has 'been engaged to coach the young girls who are to take part in the various dances and marches. A collection in aid of the fund for aged and infirm priests was (taken up last Sunday. The Bishop spoke strongly in its favor at 11 o'clock Mass at St. 'Patrick's Cathedral. His Lordship the Bishop has made the following changes .-Rev. Father Meagher goes from Devonport to take charge of Puhoi, Rev, Father Furlong from Gisborne to take charge of Devonport, and Rev. Father Duffey goes to Gisborne in place of Rev. Father Furlong. Rev. Father McMillan has been appointed chaplain to St. Ibar s branch (Newton) of the H.A.C.B. Society. Last Monday evening some of the district officers afctended and urged all to work hard to make the branch what it saould be, one of the foremost in New Zealand. The net result of the Avondale bazaar amounted to £120, a \ery creditable return indeed. Too much praise cannot qe given to the committee of ladies and gentlemen who by their zeal and enthusiasm brought this about. It is to bo hoped that they will all be rewarded for their work by seeing in their midst very soon a much-needed church. The following sympathetic notice on the death of Dr Kevin Ixod O'Doherty appeared in the « Auckland Star ' on Saturday, J,uly 22 :-Dr. O'Doherty was born in Dublin in June, 1824. He received a good liberal education, and even in his school days evidenced exceptional abilities He decided for the medical profession, and was in the midst of lectures and hospital attendances when m the year 1848, one of those periodical unheaUnlgs took place in Ireland, into which young O Doherty was drawn. In the ranks of the Youn X Ireland Party which included Mitchell, Martin, John Blake Dillon (father of the present John Dillon), Davis C ( G Duffy (afterwards Sir Charles Gavan Duffy), O'Doherty became an enthusiastic worker. When Mitchel was convicted O'Doherty was amongst those who controlled the newspaper t>hc ' United Irishman.' He subsequently established the ' Irish Tribune,' the first number awearine on June 10 1848. On July 10th following the authorities had O'Doherty under lock and key in Newgate ?o!. S o (>n^, ani l had su P? )resscd his paper. On August 10, 1848, O Doherty was tried in Green street Couffit/housie ou a charge of treason-felony. At this and the subsequent trial the juries disagreed, Wit at the third trial ' the Crown succeeded, amd O'Doherty was exiled to Van Diemen's Land. In the course of time he was g,iven his liberty conditionally upon residing anywhere out of the United Kingdom. He went to Paris and t/here finished his medical course. He paid a secret visit to Ireland and married Hs early love, ' EVa,' the patriotic poetess of the Nattrn.' In 1856 his pardon was made unconditional, and in the next year he returned to Ireland where he took out Ms medical degrees with great eclat He practises his profession, and attained to its front rank. 'Dearly, however, as he loved Ireland, the land of the Southern Cross h«ad for him an irresistible charm and in a few years he was back again in Australia. Like Duffy in Victoria, he served well the cause of his adopted country, and gave it ungrudgingly those talents which a democracy welcomed, and treasured ana honored.