Bathurst diocese, NSW

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Bathurst, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 10 November 1866, p 706, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115451513:

(From our own Correspondent.) His Lordship Dr. Quinn left here on Saturday morning for the metropolis, on urgent business. Before his departure, however, he made the following appointments:—[...] Rev. R.W. Nugent to assist Father McCarthy of Mudgee; [...] The rev. gentlemen above mentioned will leave during the week for their respective destinations. [...]

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Railway Collision. At the Redfern Station. Eight Men Killed and Thirty Injured, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 3 November 1894, p 16,http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115550135:

The railway collision at the Redfern station on Wednesday morning caused a most painful sensation throughout the whole city. The accident occurred at 9.32. The outgoing train for Goulburn, timed to leave at 9.30, left No. 6 platform, it is understood, a minute or two behind time, and had only proceeded about 100 yards or so when it met an incoming suburban train from Parramatta, making for platform No. 11. The two engines met with a great crash. [...]

The Killed
[...] Very Rev. Dean McCarthy died at St. Vincent's Hospital.

The S.M. Herald this morning has an obituary notice of "the Very Rev. Timothy McCarthy, Dean." The paper has made a mistake. The venerable priest who died on Wednesday night was the Very Rev. Callaghan McCarthy. Father "Tim" McCarthy died some 16 years ago. [...]

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The Late Dean McCarthy, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 November 1894, p 6, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13974961:

The late Very Rev. Callaghan McCarthy, Roman Catholic Dean, of Concord, who died in St. Vincent's Hospital, was one of the oldest and most venerated priests in the diocese of Sydney. He was 69 years of age. He came out to Sydney from Ireland a deacon, and was ordained priest by the late Archbishop Polding some 45 years ago. Before the diocese of Bathurst was established Dean McCarthy was the parish priest of Mudgee. This was before 1865, when the late Dr. Matthew Quinn took charge of the new diocese. Dean McCarthy remained in the diocese of Sydney, and for over 20 years he was pastor of Burwood.

The funeral of the late Dean will take place this morning at Rookwood. The body was removed from St. Vincent's Hospital to St. Mary's Cathedral at half-past 8 o'clock last night. This morning at 10 o'clock there will be a solemn requiem at St. Mary's Cathedral, the Cardinal Archbishop presiding, and the clergy of the city and suburbs will assist at the service. The funeral cortege will leave St. Mary's at 1 o'clock to join the special funeral train to leave Redfern at 2 o'clock.

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Woman's Column, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 10 November 1894, p 9, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115547873:

"He lived the life of a saint and died the death of a hero," said one of Dean McCarthy's oldest friends; and never were words more truly spoken. The stories told of the "old Dean's" heroism on that fatal morning are pathetic enough to move one to tears. When he had regained consciousness after having been rescued from the telescoped carriage, his first thought was of duty, and remarking to those who were tending him, and would have dissuaded him, that he was a Catholic priest and must see if any of his people were injured and needed his ministry, he began to move about among the other sufferers. Those who were near the saintly old man that morning say it was heroism pure and simple. When there was nothing more that he could do, he quietly entered a cab, dove to St. Vincent's Hospital, and in his gentle calm way asked the Sisters if they could find room for him. It was not till they came to attend to him that the real extent of his terrible injuries was known. They were such as to make even the Dr., accustomed as he is to appalling sights, turn cold. And all through the painful ordeal of dressing the wounds not one murmer—not even a sigh, they say—passed the lips of the heroic old man. But the end of it all was peace, and for some hours before his death he suffered no pain, passing away as gently as he had lived.
Yours,
Peggy.

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Country. Uarbry.—Death's Harvest, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 24 November 1894, p 19, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115549471:

[...] In addition to our grief came the sad news of the awful death of good Father McCarthy. He was a young priest (not Dean) when he used to ride fifty miles from Mudgee in a day to hold a station at Uarbry, which he did every three months for several years from 1859 till he left Mudgee for Sydney. Never can the teachings of that good saintly priest be forgotten whilst memory lasts to those who had the happiness and benefit of his ministry. On the morning of All Saints' Day he joined the majority, and the thought brings a consolation that the sufferings and death of that dear holy pastor have paid the ransom for many suffering souls, and, that on All Souls' Day he and they had entered eternal rest and happiness. [...]