Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 35

Intercolonial

The receipts at v the Irish National concert in Sydney on March 18,. were about £300,, Thousands were unable to gain admittance. - - .Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Prenty" who was said to have . been aged - 100 years, -died at the Melbourne Hospital the other day._ Deceased was a sister of the late Judge Nolan, of. Dublin. ' ~ < * ' - The Rev." Father- Buckley, who Jias been for some years parish priest _of Junee, has been- appointed to succeed the Very Rev.- Father Slattery- V.G., at Wagga., , -The appeal of the Sisters of- Mercy, of Mudgee (Q.), to enable them to. rebuild St. Vinceat's"Ornhanage, which was dismantled byA.a cyclone, has met with a generous response, about - £900 having 'been sub- - scribed.' _ £31)0 more is required to s meet the- - outlay, Mr. Owen s "Brady celebrated his lOOth^ birthday at . Titree Springs, in . the Carooar district, New South Wales, a few days ago. He was born in Cork in 1807, and, 'thought nearly blind now, 'all his. other faculties ,are good, "and his memory wonderfully keen. He was with' General De Lacy Evans in Spain, with the 10th regiment., at the storming of San "Sebastian. j His Lordship- Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, who celebrated his 80th birthday - last month, has lived in Maitland for over 40 years. He still enjoys fairly good health, and continues to^ visit the outlying portions of his extensive diocese. He was born in .Wick- * low on March 25, 1828, and is. a grand-nephew of the most illustrious Dr. Murray. Archbishop of Dublin. His— Grace the Archbishop of Adelaide thanked the daily papers in a letter for their excellent descriptions of the doings on St. Patrick's Day, adding : 'In ray thanks the whole- Catholic community joins.' His cJract? also asked that the reporters should be thanked, " onMs 'be-half . and that of the Catholic body, ' for their ably written and sympathetic record of the proceedings. The Rev. Father Wolfe, of Blackall, has been elected Mayor of that town for the current year. Father Wolfe (says the Brisbane ' Age ' ) is the second Queensland priest who has had mayoral honors conferred on him, the^ first -being ' the late Father M. J. McKiernan, who for some . years was an alderman ' of the Gayndah Town Council and served as Mayor of that municipality. _ Lord Northcote, speaking at the Sydney Royal Agricultural Show luncheon on March 30, referred to the magnificent prosperity .of Australia. He said he -had travelled over a large portion cf the continent, and found everywhere, particularly in New South Wales, a feeling of satisfaction at the present conditions, and confidence in the future/ He quoted figures tci show that the value of the New South Wales wool clip had risen, in 1906' to £14,000,000, while the butter output &r«& r «« 190 Ji-- was - 5 7,000,0001fc, as against 30,000,00C1b for 1902. For 1906-7 the wheat yield was 23,500,000 bushels, as compared with 16,500,000 bushels for 1905 • while in 1904 Australian wheat was quoted at from 7s7 s XO,X 0 , ZZ l PP er <l uarter hetter than the English product is 9d. better than the Argentine, and 8d better "than -the Canadian wheat. The Rev. Father Shanahan, of Coleraine, had- an enthusiastic and unique welcome home recently after more than a year's holiday in Europe. The chair was ' !EX£?y? 7 f V - i- P * Kirby ' who said that now if at-ner Siianahan had returned invigorated to renew his good- work they assured him of their unbounded pleasure to again .see' his genial face, and they trusted he would be long spared to^ be what Tie had been in the past—a large-hearted,, generous, and sympathetic friend" -!i+h t classes of his own people as well as those of ' nf^-^minations-who, he knew, joined with those Lf + Sh f^ h an s church in expressions of genuine good-will to their guest. Mr. T. J. Fitzeerald on'hp! Fathe? 4h 6 ™ era K society, ' heartily fangraCatS Father Shanahan on his return to Coleraine Soeeches expressing gocd wish€S and extendin e a hearty welcome to Father Shanahan on behalf of the denomTmt

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