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Honoured in South America A magnificent monument was erected recently in Buenos Aires, South America, to the memory of Father Anthony laity, 0.P., who was born at Loughrea, Co. Galway, in 1804, end who died in Buenos Aires, in 1871. ''Father Fahy's arrival in this country was providential," says the ,'Southern Cross" of Argentina. He came at the parting of the ways, when people were yearning for him, man or such as he, as the hungry yearns for food, or the parched camp figuratively yearns for water.
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statesman, and prophet to rest, almost side by side with the other great man of Irish -Argentine. Within
few yards of that monument, with the conspicuous Celtic cross of tradition, lie the remains. of Admiral William Brown. Father Fahy arrived in Buenos Aires in 1843. For more than a quarter of a century, until his death from yellow fever, caught while attending a Poor Catholic Italian in 1871, his name 1s intimately identified with the progress and welfare, a
spiritual and temporal, of the latge Irish community in Buenos Aires.
RoGoods just opened :-Statuary, A tiezge toesigninent of New Crucifixes, Hymn Cross, thc, saries, Braes Oaedieeticks, Stations of and Catholic Books, Floate, Incense, Charcoal Ta Pere, and all Church All Irish, %g ash, and American Newspapers, and School Requtettes. Magazines. Mapraaines in stock. Agents for all Interstate Papers and Fireside. Good Moralities for the home circle- Ave Maria and Catholic
COUNTRY ORDERS RECEI VE PROMPT ATTENTION.
thusiastic committee of lay
gentle-
men, and the co-operation 'between the Hame and the committee has borne
goodly fruits in the evolution of the former into what we see to -day, and
still-the development of character in an always extending area. What Westmead is to -day is the out -come of undaunted courage
-better
Allen Doone An exchange says :-"Allen Doone admits that he is plain, unadulterated Irish. 'I was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford,' he said, 'and my father and mother both had their origin in the same place, while I can
He saved the Irish pioneers from inand self-sacrifice which have been numerable law -suits, and their proamply justified, but can hardly be trace my laish ancestry while they possession taken being new perties from were swinging by their tails to the measured, Where last year there were and sparsely populated country, "testamentathe by death of after 1o2 boys being well cared for, there Which reminds social conditions, and an unknown blackthorn bushes. alwas name his for harpies, are now i 17, and the year's expendilanguage-the Irish exiles of those ria" was sentsncwho Irishman differthe of me of the deeds ways in the title ture has been Ci,ioo. And the State early days might he likened to a ed to be hanged, and was given his side by. side with that of lands, ent on apits tossing show to -what has it done ship without a compass to which he the owner. By this means, on the preciation of this beet of all charit- choice of the kind of tree, strange seas. he was able to latter, the of death his with would like to be hung from. He chose Fatly, Westmead is Nothimi able works? Then came Father property, receive the deeds, strong mind and his clear vision of claim the not merely ignored it is as much cut a gooseberry bush. "That won't do," them to the widow and then hand off from the sympathy of our lawthings to point out the way to his they told him; "there are none high and orphans. Many of the great Hithem along the people, and guide givers as if it were a camp of sinister enough." "Never mind," replied the the of millionaires rgentine berno-A How well he succeeded, let aliens instead of a community from path. Irishman, "I'll wait till one grows." of their safety the owe day of present which man, citizens of the future are the written and unwritten history Yes, I'm ,all Irish, and I gravitated priest. thoughtful this to lands in the making. In congratulating the the Irish -Argentite people tell. Many towards Irish drama quite naturally. was name Fahy's Father Although his president and members of the St. VinIrishman, an Irish -Argentine home blesses When I was ai very small he yet bank, the, in worth millions Jive, cent de Paul Society on the splendid memory. Keen -visioned as a prophet somewhere between four and Mr. friend, his that died so poor he looked out on the distant horizon, results of their past labours, his see Joseph to me took father my in barrister Armstrong, an Irish Grace the Archbishop said saw the potentialities of the country Murphy in "Kerry Gow." I was then Buenos Aires, paid his few small adthe when few could see them, and spoke to forego foolish we first ,inspired with the ambition to Are friends debts, and five other Irish the wise, unerring word, with regard vantage of a State subsidy from the become an exponent of Irish charexpenses. funeral his paid people the to to temporal things, Treasury for nothing ? Let others acter. It was not till iyoo that I A st.bscription of .E t ,, /011 was colfor he was their The whom he loved ; realised my ,ambition to star excluFather answer. Here is our position present to 1863 in lected of man -banker, broker, and general sively in Irish drama. In that year I riches of religious instruction and rehe beghut testimonial, a with Fahy spiritual their well as in " Kerry affairs, as opened at St. Louis ligious training, genuine training hand it the committee to of sed pastor. that engrafts the mind of the child Gow," and since then I have keen saying hospital, Irish the to manithis over Irish It was this versatility, on the in continuot.sly appearing and the will of the child, that he had no need for more than 'told capacity, as well as his abnegaparts, both in dramas and vends\ ille mind and will of Christ these are supplied as much as and one coat, tion and priestly qualities, that quasketches. I do not think any other riches for the children, and we prelified Father Fahy to play his pre- his daily necessities. class of. drama appeals so strongly these riches, and give them as fer Father anpearance, In personal eminent role in shaping the destinies the orphan boys. to to the masses as Irish drama. Pouinheritance their usually stately, and Fahy was tall of the Irish Argentine people. children in Mittagong or cicault's plays have become as much Many How hut serious, and looking thoughtful Like all great men, he did notjatclassics in their way as the plays of lirtIsh Farm cost £20 a year ? Muland women, his tach undue importance to trifles, he like most Irishmen beamed with in- tiply that C20 by the number of boys Shakespeare. Every travelling comcountenance readily :grasped essentials. "Land is a safe pany in America has at least one of in Westmead, and you would have a his ettiet humour investment," he said. "Go out to telligence and money, but it is as of sum goodly Boucicault's pieces in its repertoire, unaffecand manners were charming the camp, inhale the pure country dust beneath our feet compared with and every stock company also makes him " a styles Mulhall Mrs. ted. wholesome air ; marry those fine it a rule to periodically produce the religious instruction and religious great Dominican." and "the patrigirls of your country, and possess training. Here at Westmead, apart these dramas. That is more than can Irish flourishing most the of the for arch done, the land." Thus it was from the work the boys do, they are he said of Shakespeare. I consider that colony, perhaps in the world." priest was word of the far-seeing the leading writer of the new school trained in the hest atmosphere to be days. law with the Irish of those useful and highly respectof Irish drama, Theodore Bert thoroughly BueThus it was that the camps of Sayre, who wrote "Tom Moore" for able citizens of the future. Sydney )(oast, Irish nos Aires were speckled with Andrew Mack, and who has written words," inspiring fine are "Those of the Argentine homes, and the foundabut the Ca- for me " The Wearing "Freeman," the continues " Dick tions of the greater part of the prosSPLENDID RECORD OF Green," "Edmund Burke," reveal does not they position tholic CATHOLIC CHARITY. perity of later times were laid. itothers, is equally as good and Dale," concerns State-which the acquit he Driven from Ireland by the tyranas Boucicault. In fact, I think ''Not many minorities can tell such self with brickworks and other aids ny of an alien Government, that hancompared to Sheridan, better as that of West be introduccan is usefulness which of tale a and progress, to to a literary. ded over their ancient homes or Oliver Goldsmith, for mead, the close of which was celebraing immigrants by the thousand-of his drathat creel and exotic landlordism, and Sydney doubt the no I have such says style. overlooking in Sunday," on folly ted its criminal as theirs." carried the scorching flame of bigotlong as "Twentythe live iyth. will mas for Sept. of institution "Freeman" a splendid local ry and proselytism over the land, one years ago it started on the hill production of good and useful Auserchin the majority of the Irish who came sery a as beyond Parramatta tralians as Westmead Home." In a rural district two boys were handicapped were to this country amongst our charities, with escomwe are sure will day discussing what sign it was one had remarks They The above with many disadvantages. for but a few orote4?s; but moiation members when the cuckoo is heard the first the by with and pleasure read with no commercial training, out with a determination be started it St. of the year. One of them said in Conferences time rehad of our Westralian many, scorn they and their fathers the to increase that few to was getting , married, while it offered de Paul Society, when they Vincent the fused the tainted education to increase incidentally and the Hon. L. F. Hey other said it was a sign that they by the that remember the them at the price of honour enlarge and accommodation taken such a were going to, he rich. A farmer overand train- don, M.L.C., who has in the West purchasers of souls. The Italians and occupation useful hearing them said interest learnin practical keen difficulty little had and French ing of its boys for this life organiser and was is the which Home, mead language, "That cannot be true because I kindred ing the the next. For some years the guarthat are have heard it many times, and I am the Conferences the of way of the in founder obstacle such an dians of this small community made West in not married yet, and I am certainly its now so firmly established early Irish. heroic struggles not only to keep in host a was Australia. Fahy not rich." Just then a local worthy the But Father turn to but together, nucleus known as Jamie was passing by and into etch himself. To the multifarious labours time the of chaos physical you undertook, he the farmer said, "Jamie, can which love purof great 767. to serve TELEPHONE order as would tell us what sign it is when you hear may he added those of interpreter. pose later on. For those were indeed due the cuckoo for the first time?" -Now, after forty years the credit lean years in the country's annals we to him cannot he exaggerated ; his the years of financial depression. But CORNER NEWCASTLE AND PIER "Yes," said Jamie, as he took the of STREETS, PERTH. of this generation are proud pipe from his mouth. "It's a sign were faithful to their guardians the comour memory, for the annals of you're not deaf." trust, and many of the lads of those munity are glorified by his name. themselves and doins now are years HOLMES be many of and his memory is revered the State some service as a result to Subscription Yearly nationalities besides the Irish. Hon- the industrial and spiritual training honGROCERS, TEA AND PROVISION Marist our thsn to the wets who have caoable the in under 6d tOs received " AND A. Record " DEALERS, WINE, BEER, Father Fahy, who have oored Brothers. In addition to those Bromonubeautiful a MERCHANTS. him SPIRIT over ernted advance. thers Westmead has always had the WE ASK A TRIAL OF YOU. ment made in' Ireland, of Irish niadevoted and unpaid service of an en priest, dead the laid have tsrial, and
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