Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 117:

Curran, Peter, Very Rev. C.S.Sp., Irish
Tragic End by Falling into Fire
From a missionary career in Egypt as a Holy Ghost Father, to the Sale Diocese, where a building complex at Maffra stands to his eternal credit ... that's the story of Peter Curran, builder, administrator, pastor — even if at betimes he was at loggerheads with his Bishop. Very likely he had left the Holy Ghost Order when he came to Sale, and doesn't strictly meet the A to Z test of arrival prior to the end of 1900. Details of his origin and education are unclear. All that is known is that he hailed from County Mayo and that he was a student of Theology at Le Mans and Paris. First years in Sale were spent on the Cathedral staff, during which (probably from 1910) he was Administrator. Maffra parish became his assignment in 1915 and at the same time he was appointed Diocesan Chancellor. The first church that he sponsored at Maffra still does service as a parish hall; the second, opened in 1924, is a spacious and imposing edifice in brick. A two-storied brick presbytery, bulky enough to be a Cathedral Presbytery, also stands to his credit. At what stage and for what reason he was at odds with authority is unknown, but at the same time he must have been held in high regard on a diocesan level. Among other positions of trust: secretary for the diocese at the Sydney Eucharistic Congress in 1928. On 24 October 1930, while reclining near the fire in the presbytery sitting room he suffered a severe stroke and partial cremation. The charred remains were interred in the Maffra Cemetery.
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 5)
Information: Mgr. P.S. Crowe, Nazareth House, Camberwell.