Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 22 November 1906, Page 35

Intercolonial

. ' i- ... \ There has been completed a handsome -monument to the memory the late Father -J^J. Horan, to- be placed in . St. Mary's Catholic . Churchy Warwick. At St..-Mary's.Churcli>fet''^tT 1 KiWa'(Vic), the Very Rev. Father Lynch, ~ wjiQ^Jias - been absent- recruiting his- -health- for nearly -'Jwo^ years, was welcomed home by his parishioners Mr. J. C. Duffy was- in the -chair, and , ificre was a , very '" large attendance. Father- Lynch,' hvacknowledging the- warm welcome,- -gave "tin. interesting sketch "of, his travels. - - A builder of railways and '-'other big works was the late Mr. Martin Danaher, wh<^ died at Marr-ickville .on November--^.- -Mr. Danaher, who was a-' -Limerick man, was well known as -a contractor in New Zealand. He built several railway -lines "in -Northern New- South Wales and Southern Queensland." -He retired from business seven' years . ago. ' : - ~ ' The Right -Rev. Dr. ".Broyer-,^ Vicar- Apostolic of the Navigators' Islands, arrived in Sydney on November 5 by the French mail steamer. - His Lordship left some months- ago oiv his ad -limina visit tp ; Rome. He also visited' Berlin to arrange, some "matters concerning his mission with ' the German Government, which holds a protectorate over Samoa,- where n*e ministers: _He was successful in direction. He brought back with him five Marist Fathers. ~ . - On Sunday, November 4, -Jus Eminence Cardinal Moran blessed and formally opened the new Convent of St.. Joseph at Penrith.'- The ceremony -reminds us (says the ' Catholic Press ') that the convent - there was the first ' house of the' Order founded in New South' Wales. It was -the " present' Mother General, Sister - Mary . of the Cross, who commenced the work there, having associated with her the present Superior at Penrith. That was in 1880, so that .the celebrations of - Sunday last really marked, the silver jubilee of the advent of the Sisters' of .St. Joseph- to- this State. . " "- - . • . . Mr. W..J3. O'Brien, .son of .Inspecting Superintendent O'Brien, Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade (says the ' Freeman's Journal '), has been appointed deputy chief officer of the Wellington Fire Brigade, New Zealar.d. Mr. -W. S. O''Brien, who was trained as, a _fire fighter under Chief Officer Stein, is . regarded as one " of the smartest .young men in the", brigade, and has - on several occasions been the recipient of encomiums from his chief for his nerve and" resourcefulness in work where it was most .required. For several years Mr. O'Brien has been in charge of Malvern- station. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne has made the following clerical appointments and' changes' in the location of priests in the Archdiocese :— Rev. L. Martin, -from St. Patrick's' Cathedral to-Kilmore, as permanent rector. Lancefield and Romsey have been cut off from Kilmore, and made' a separate mission, "with Rev. -W. Hartnett (Geelong) as pastor. Rev. J.- P. O'Connell, of .Kilmore, takes Father Martin's place at' the ' Cathedral ; Rev. M. A. Vaughan (recently arrived from Rome), and Rev. C. Conlon, 'of Mansfield, have been appointed as assistants to Monsignor M'Kemna, V.G., Geelong; Rev. J. J. M'Carthy, from " Geelong to Mansfield ; Rev. J. A. O'Brien, from Gisborne to South Melbourne ; Rev. P. J. Gibbons, from South Melbourne to Gisborne ; Rev. P. D. O'Connor, " recent- _ ly: . arrived from Ireland, to ~ Footscrayi The Irish Envoys were to bring their meetings- in Sydney and suburbs to a close last week,, the final . meeting being at Paddington on November -14. They -, were to leave Sydney for Qoulburn on Saturday last. A very high tribute to Mr. " Devlin's powers as "an orator is paid by the ' Western Advocate,' Orange, - which says : 'We have heard .Mr. William Redmond speak, and he spoke very eloquently. We -have heard .Mr. John Redmond speak, and- "he spoke much more eloquently than his brother. ' Mr t " -Devlin- surpassed them both in all the essentials of public speaking. -We have heard the" two most- polished orators Australia has produced, Mr. Dalley and Dr. Kelynack,' but we have never listened to ,moi;e" brilliant speaking than. ;that of Mr. Devlin. He is "an orator— polished, forceful, convincing, -rounded, and - fluent. The even stream of carefully modulated sentences never checked-; the im-'-pressivenes'S of the story was always evident, and his periods were the polished and rounded utterances of a scholar* He came to Australia with the* reputation of an orator of the first water, and- his oration here^ - more than sustained the expectations formed by his delighted listeners.