Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 35

Intercolonial

His Grace the Archbishop of Brisbane, .Most Rev. Drr Dunne, attained the seventyreigbtn j-ear of his age on September 5. -"._'._ According to Dr. Armstrong, the city health' officer, Sydney, has been for the last five years the healthiest city of over 100,000 inhabitants in the world. The -total deaths registered for August was 495» which is equal to "a mortality of 10.44 PPrP e r thousand. A notable feature of the reception to the Earl of Dudley, the new Governor-General, was the joyous .chimes of the bells of St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, which pealed forth welcome during ''the swearing-in of the Governor-General and the procession to Parliament House. Hjs Eminence Cardinal Moran entered on the twenty-fifth year of his arrival in New South ,Wales on Tuesday, September 8. On September 16 his Eminence entered on his seventy-ninth year. The Catholic Press states; that the Cardinal-Archbishop is as well and vigorous to-day as he was twenty-five years ago. The Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Melbourne (Very Rev. Dean Phelan) has made the following changes in the location of priests :— Rev. T. B. Walsh, from Geelong to Oakleigh Mission ; Rev. T. F. O 'Sullivan, from South Melbourne to Geelong; Rev. M. D. Finan, from Collingwood to Brunswick; Rev. W. O'Farrell, from Brunswick to South Melbourne. There was a remarkable meeting in Melbourne the othe.week, when the Irish-Australian, the Hon. John Gavan Duffv, son of Charles Gavan Duffy, the patriot of 1848, greeted ths Irish-American, Ensign Robert Emmet, a kinsman of "Robert Emmet, the patriot martyr of 1803. Both personify what Irishmen may accomplish when under conditions which give them liberty. The Queensland Full Court was adjourned the other week owing to the illness of Mr. Justice Real, senior puisne judge. His Honor was sixty-one years of age last March, and it is fifty-seven years since he arrived in Queensland from Limerick. He has been eighteen years on the bench. He is" perhaps the best type of Catholic layman in Australia, always upright and uncompromising when duty calls -- "' His Lordship Dr. Duhig, speaking in Brisbane on his return to Rockhampton after a visit to Sydney, said that of all the splendid pageants, decorations, ceremonies, and banquets given to the American fleet, nothing impressed him so much as the princely manner in which the Cardinal-Archbishop acted on the memorable otcasion. Everything that his Eminence had a hand in was conducted on a splendid scale. ' Yes,' said Dr. Duhig, ' the Cardinal is not only a great ecclesiastic, but he is head and shoulders above anyone in ht9 carrying out of even secular matters. On Lord Dudley's arrival at Brisbane he received a letter of welcome from the Queensland Irish Association. It stated that, while at the proper time Queensland Irishmen would gladly co-operate fully in Australia's, dutiful and respectful greetings to him as Governor-General, "they would not allow his unofficial visit to pass without signifying their appreciation of his services to Ireland as Viceroy, and his sympathy with Irish interests and aspirations. Confidence was also expiessed that his stay in Australia would not diminish his kindly feelings towards the country in which he represented his Majesty so worthily, and that he would say from experience that self-government "made Jrishm.-n in Australia, prosperous, contented, and loyal as any people in the Empire. The death of- the Rev. David Laseron (Anglican) the other day recalls one morning in June, 1892, when, seated in a railway carriage- between Redfern und Kogarah, he received a bullet In his shoulder not intended for him. 'Mr. -Thomas Walker (a one time M.L.A, of New. South Wales, and now a member of the Westralian Parliament) was excitedly handling a revolver in the same carriage, when it exploded, wounding the clergyman, to whom Walker was a complete stranger. Surgical operations failed, to locate the bullet, and Mr. "Laseron (a poor man) was*" compelled to relinquish professional work. About that time the Rontgen Rays were made known to" the world, and hearing that Father Slattery; CM.,- the Science Professor at St. Stanislaus College, Bathurst, had introduced the discovery into his physics laboratory, Mr. Laseron was conveyed to the college, where ths bullet was localised and dislodged.