The Archbishop of Hobart

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 33

The Archbishop of Hobart

4i Th ACA C celebration of the diamond jubilee of his Grace Cathedral, Hobart, on ■ the Feast of the Maternity of fif.-n ifii-'aT -festival his Grace was consecra- ■ tod in 1846 Ihe Cathedral was'filled by a large congre= gatl ™> .^eluding his Excellency the Governor (Sir GerV^ S A }7 Ckland^ and LadyEdeline Strickland and family ; the Attorney-General (Hon. W. B. Propstine ML C ) representing the Government ; and ■ his Worship the Mayor (Alderman Crisp), representing the City Council Arohh?i IZenS R- J mmed »t«l7 after the ceremony the own w° P «', Bl l ho ?' and , Clergy were entertained at luncheon by the Sisters of the Presentation Convent I n ' the - evening his Grace entertained at dinner the Bishon by t^S^n^f ll^ 1111 WaS '* mOSt felicitously propoS by the Bishop of Laranda, and in his reply the Archoi h£ SLifY evidence ° f vigor P and vitality ot -ftis intellectual powers. He was full of fun rp be^ g fl . W nn m ° St a !^- Si " g Indignation tto change of-" being- an old man ' Time enough,' said he, 'to talk of old age when he was 96 or XV) * at m-esent iw» was young for no one was older than he fe t How ever, as they would insist that he was old and m old age portended the approach of inevitable d£«o " Ivors for^HH^ *? &M an ° ther *o tto mJny ;»IP tv- wh , lch he was alre ady indebted to the Mndness of his clergy, and that was that thW would pray the Almighty God Who had been so goo<7to S? to grant him a crowning blessing, to grant him wd