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Show IRISHMEN" IN AUSTRALIA. 'The speech delivered some time ago by Lord Salisbury, in which reference was made to "a disloyal Ireland," which GrPat t Britain would not trust with a separate parliament, awakened general eondemna-ticm eondemna-ticm and indignation throughout Australia. Austra-lia. At a-large gathering held in Svdney snecial reference was made to the British Brit-ish premier's address. One of the speakers, speak-ers, D. O'Connor, M. P., after referring to rhe great service rendered to the empire by Irishmen in other lands, said that men of Irish birth and Irish blood had contributed con-tributed to the progress of Australia in every way. Irishmen had figured, and still continue to figure, conspicuously in every walk of life and in every path of enterprise and patriotic service. Among the pioneers and explorers who did the first brave work of civilization in this land the daring, heroic Irishman was conspicuous. conspic-uous. What need to recall the honored name of Burke, Kills, Kennedy, Buchanan, Buchan-an, and Durack? But it was to the in- tellectual and patriotic services- of Irishmen Irish-men in the colonies that he desired to say a good word that morning. Need he speak of the great Irish prime minister of Victoria, Sir John O'Shanassy, and of the other bright Irishmen whose public services had so materially aided the growth of that great colony of Duffy, of O'Loghlen, of O'Grady. of Aspinali, of Redmond. Barry, I.alor. and a host of others, including lliginbotham, the din-i din-i tinguished shier" justice? Coming to our I own colony, the greatest man oi our political po-litical history. William Charles West-worth, West-worth, the son of a patriotic Irishman, boasted that the best blood' in his veins was Irish. This was the man who gave us our constitution. What should he say of John Hubert Plunkett, of Judge Therry; aye. and what of those great Irishmen, those incomparable governors-Sir governors-Sir Richard Rourke, Sir John Young and Sir Hercules Robinson? In such a gathering gath-ering it was almost unnecessary to speak of that profound jurist and great advocate, advo-cate, Edward Butler: of the incomparable orator, wit and scholar, the Right Honorable Hon-orable William Bede Dalley; of that greatest judge that ever ordained the bench of Australia Sir James Martin. At the present day the chief justice of the colony of New South Wales was an Irishman, Irish-man, Sir Frederick Barley, and another high office was splendidly filled by another an-other highly gifted son of the old' land. Mr. Justice Owen. No Irish-Australian need bp reminded of the public services of Sir Patrick Jennincs, the Catholic premier pre-mier of New South Wales, or of the attainments at-tainments of the marvelously.-gif ted Daniel Dan-iel Henry Deniehy. Queensland honors the memory of T.'.J- Byrnes, the late Catholic premier, and the Hon. John Ma-crossan. Ma-crossan. Nor was it necessary to recall the name of John Ballance, who lifted New Zealand to its present position. |