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New Zealand Tablet, 29 July 1915, Page 31

The Hibernian Society of the archdiocese of Melbourne has decided to subscribe the sum of £IOOO to the Catholic College fund. The Very Rev. Father M. J. O’Reilly, C.M., Rector of St. John’s College, within the Sydney University, will leave the Old Country by the R.M.S. Osterley on the 30th of this month. His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Bishop of Ballarat, has received information that his nephew. Lieutenant J. F. Beirne, who is serving with the British Army, has been wounded in action in France. ' A brother is senior surgeon on the British battleship Gloria. < The Very Rev. Archpriest. John Felix Marshall, V.G., who was recently appointed to the pastoral charge of Warrnambool, and took up duties there, on Sunday, July 11, was born near Cahirconlish, County Limerick. He is nearly 70 years of age. He began his ecclesiastical studies in All Hallows’ College, Dublin', in September, 1868, and was ordained there on St. John’s Day (June 24), 1873. Amongst his_ college contemporaries and classmates were the late Most Rev. Dr. O’Reily, Archbishop of Adelaide, Very Rev. Dean Hegarty (Kyneton), Very Rev. Archpriest McKenna (Geelong), Very Rev. J. H. O’Connell (parish priest of Carlton), and Rev. Father Maurice P. O’Carroll (Flemington). He came in an old sailing vessel to Australia,'arriving in Melbourne .on v January 3, 1874, after a voyage of about 113 days. , ' " ' .