Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 137:

Delany, Patrick, Irish
Promising Pastor in Early Ballarat Diocese
On 14 May 1874 Patrick wrote a letter to the Vicar General, Dr. John Fitzpatrick, giving as his address, Darcys' Shamrock Hotel, Stawell West. It reads : "I beg to resign into your hands the position you gave me in this diocese (Melbourne). Your kindness and courtesy to me I shall ever remember with deep gratitude. I have made up my mind to go home and I ask you to still think well of me, for my innocence will be clearly proved, and perhaps we will meet under happier circumstances. Please write me a letter of character for my time in the Diocese. I know Father (Richard) Ellis will recommend me to your favourable consideration ......"

Patrick had been stationed at the Ballarat St. Alipius' Presbytery in the 1873-4 period, but what the difficulty of the young priest from County Carlow was, isn't clear. Anyhow, the V.G. or his friends, must have persuaded Patrick to stay on. Next year, 1875, he was an assistant at Maryborough, and in the following year took over the parochial charge. His reputation for zeal and long journeys to the north of the Maryborough Mission became well known. Unfortunately bad health, probably due to tuberculosis, cut short the zealous activity and journeying. He again, on 14 May 1877, sent in a resignation, this time to the newly-arrived and first bishop, Dr. Michael O'Connor. The coastal atmosphere of Portland was tried as a rest cure but didn't work. So he returned to his relatives, the D'Arcy family, in the hotel at Stawell. He died in Stawell on 4 February 1878, the age being 36. A lonely grave just inside the local cemetery marks the resting place of a promising pastor.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 8)