Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 3 September 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

Archdeacon Beechinor, of : .Latrobe (Tasmania), is still suffer--ing from the effects of his accident a couple ~ of ' months agpj . when some of the small bones of his left -leg were fractured".'. He' is able to get about with the aid'- of- crutches. .

Negotiations have been entered into with the Christian Brothers by his Lordship Dr. Duhig to open schools in Townsville and Mount Morgan. It: will be remembered that the late Very Rev. W. M. Walsh, of Townsville, bequeathed * to be devoted towards the erection of a Christian Brothers' School in Townsville.

News was received by the English mail (says the Argus) of the death -of Mrs. Francis Sarah- Cashel Hoey, widow of Mr. Cashel Hoey, for some years secretary to the Agent-General for Victoria in London. -Mrs. Cashel Hoey, who was born in 1830, had entered on her 79th year. -In early and middle life she was an active literary workwoman, producing a succession of excellent novels, and. writing constantly for the Spectator and several leading magazines. . She was a woman of cultivated and artistic tastes, and possessed that rarity amongjfeminine writers, a literary style. In the early seventies she began ' A Lady's Letter from London ' in the Attstralasian, and kept it up fortnightly without a break until within a very few weeks of her death. Mrs. Cashel Hoey was born near Dublin, the daughter of Mr. C. B. Johnston. She was first married in 1846 1 to Mr A. M. Stewart, and secondly to Mr. John Cashel Hoey in ißj*. Mrs. Hoey was a convert to the Catholic Church.

The Christian Brothers (writes the Brisbane correspondent of the Catholic Press) upheld their previous records in the public examinations lately held in connection with the University of Sydney. Their colleges at Nudgee, Gregory Terrace, "Charters Towers, Gympie, Maryborough, Ipswich, Toowoomba, and Rockhampton secured -63 passes, while the combined boys' grammar schools got 69. - One of the Brothers' boys in Brisbane got three first class passes in mathematics, a pass obtained by but one other candidate out of all who presented themselves?. The grammar schools have this in their favor : they have a choice of the cream of the students of the whole State, a choice which, in the case of the Brothers, must be limited, because Catholic schools are in" the minority. Another thing, they have more senior students than the Brothers. Then the Government provides them with a generous subsidy, and they have- the righr of the district scholarships. Despite the fact that the Brothers do as good, if not better, work, they get no help, the only privilege allowed them being that the winner of a State scholarship can, if he elects, take it out at one of their establishments. The Christian Brothers' College, Brisbane, has an average for passes in a variety of subjects which no other school in the State can approach. .-. The Hon. Nicholas Fitzgerald, K.S.G., M.L.C., Chairman of Committees of the. Victorian Legislative Council, passed away at his residence, St. Kilda, on August 17. The deceased was a son of Erancis Fitzgerald, a well-known brewer in the West of Ireland, and came of a good family. He was bom at Galway- in 1829, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1845, where he obtained honors, and in 1849 lie gained a first scholarship at Queen's College, Galway, having entered the King's Inns, Dublin, the previous year. He did not, however, prosecute his legal studies, preferring to onter upon a commercial career. He went, in the first place, to Ceylon and India, but the year 1859 saw him, arrive in Victoria. His brother Gerald remained in Great Britain, .and became Sir Gerald Fitzgerald, K.C.M.G., Accountant-General of- the Royal Navy. In 1863;Mr. Fitzgerald married the eldest daughter of Sir John O'Shanassy, who survives him. His eldest son is married to Mina Susan Georgina North, daughter of Lord North. The deceased gentleman was a prominent and respected member of the Catholic Church, and was one ; of its most munificent -supporters. ■ Atpublic gatherings in connection with the Church he was always*" a leading figure.- : In ther, completion . of . St. Patrick's Cathedral, he took a keen interest/* and "his addresses at the annual meetings^, in connection with the. building fund of that edifice were on-2 of the features of the gathering. . '.