Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 10 April 1913, Page 51

Intercolonial

Right Rev. Monsignor Brodie, of Auckland, who has been on a health trip to New South Wales (saya the Freeman's Journal), is at present in. Sydney. On Easter Sunday he assisted at the religious ceremonies in the Cathedral. Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, who lives with her daughters in Fitzroy street, Milson's Point, North Sydney, celebrated her 100th birthday recently. Mrs. Moore, who was born near Dublin two years before the Battle of Waterloo, came to Sydney in 1840. The Guild Hall, Armidale, was crowded on Tuesday evening, March 25, when the parishioners of St. Mary's Cathedral assembled to bid farewell to the Very Rev. Dean Tobin on the eve of his departure to Ireland and Rome. At the same time the Dean was made the recipient of a purse of 200 sovereigns and an illuminated address. • The Governor of Queensland, Sir William MacGregor, in his speech at the St. Patrick's Day banquet, dwelt on the domestic virtues of the Irish people. The average family in Ireland is eight,' he said, ' whilst the ordinary average, with wastage elsewhere, is four. The infantile mortality is hardly up to 1 per cent, in Ireland. In Australia it is 8, and in England 12. The Rev. John Mclnerney, S.J., who had been an invalid for some time, died at '-Loyola,' Greenwich, on Easter Saturday, aged 63 years. Deceased was a ■native of Kilrush, Co. Clare, Ireland, and came to Australia with his parents while still very young. He leaves one sister, who is a Presentation nun at Windsor Convent, near Melbourne; and two brothers, Dr. T. Mclnerney (Warden of the Melbourne University) and Major T. M. Mclnerney, ,C.M.G. ' The Freeman's Journal reports the arrival in Sydney of the Right Rev. Abbot Erkenwald Egan, 0.5.8., of the Abbey, Ramsgate, and the Rev. Canon Keatinge, of St. Augustine's, Tunbridge Wells/ Both dignitaries are in poor health,, and recuperation is the main purpose of their visit. Abbot Egan, who is a brother of Mrs. John Toohey (' Innisfail,' Wahroonga), graduated from St. Augustine's College, Ramsgate, and St. Ambrose's, Rome. After a rest in Sydney he will proceed on his return journey by way of America. Canon Keatinge, who is pastor of St. Augustine's, Tunbridge Wells, will leave for New Zealand at the end of the week, and will probably be joined by Abbot Egan, as both have semi-official impressions to gather in America. His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney intended to be present at the welcome tendered to his Grace Archbishop Mannix on his arrival in Melbourne from Ireland. Owing, however, to the necessity of his presence for the Holy Week ceremonies and for the ordination ceremonies at the Cathedral on Easter Monday, it was deemed inadvisable for the Archbishop to undertake the fresh fatigue of a long journey by train to Melbourne. During the week his Grace Archbishop Kelly received the following telegram, from his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne :—' Would not advise severe journey. Writing. Plentitude of Paschal joys.' The Archbishop wired felicitous greeting to Dr. Mannix as follows: Clergy, people/and Archbishop of Sydney send greetings ' — which Archbishop Mannix replied : ' Heartfelt thanks for gracious message from : Archbishop, clergy, and people of Sydney.'