Legislative Council.Saturday, May 20th, Inquirer, Perth, 24 May 1854, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65741253:

The Bills relating to mortgages, and the Naturalization of Revs. Martin Griver, R. Terres, and S. Ribaya, were read a third time and passed.

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To the Editor of "The Inquirer and Commercial News", The Inquirer and Commercial News, Perth, 1 August 1855, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66007149:

Sir,— As I am the priest who administered the rites of the Catholic Church to the two aborigines who lately suffered the penalty of death; may I ex- pect from your impartiality that, after having pub- lished the letter signed "Z. BARRY" in your va- luable journal of the 25th inst, you will not deprive ???????? remarks on those two poor natives ??????????????????????raised on their account. ????????????????????????? whether a know- ?????????????????????????? of the Holy Re- ??????????????????? make a man guilty of ??????????????????ood of his fellow ??????????????????? make him guilty ????????????????????????????????ntenance which ??????????????????????????????????Australian, as well ??????????????????????????????? hearts "thou ????????????????????????????????? printed in the ??????????????????????????????????at, whenever ????????????????????????????????????the extreme ??????????????????????????????????? ays painfully ????????????????????????????????????ony, and, I ????????????????????????????????? re not led ?????????????????????????????????????o put an ????????????????????????????????????ortunate ?????????????????????????????????be stopped ????????????????????????worthy of the consideration of our rulers.

There are indeed very few, if any, murders committed among the natives, the cause of which is not, in a more or less immediate manner, excited on account of their women. Their practical polygamy, that kind of monopossession of the already scarce black women by a few daring black men in each tribe, increases the disproportion of the two sexes, excites their passions, and leads them to those desperate acts, which the law must lastly punish severely. Would it not be better to remind the natives, who are under the influence of the English law, that they are English subjects, and that they, must respect the laws of England, at least, as far as their breach offends public honesty. Would it not be preferable to tell a black fellow, who wanders into the pale of the colonised part of Western Australia or even walks into the streets of the streets of the capital of the colony, with three or four wives after him, that he must be content with one wife, and leave the others ???, or go for twelve of those calendar months to work with a chain on your leg?" Will it not be better, I say, than to be put to the necessity of seeing him hanged for having speared a fellow native, who carried away perhaps the youngest and most beloved of his four wives?

I feel confident that this experiment would relieve the magistrates from the painful duty of inflicting the last punishment of the law on our natives, and would deliver the colonists from the unpleasant sight that such a scene presents; nor can I be led to imagine our aborigines, however degraded, to be so wanting in common sense, so dead to their own interests, as not, after a short experience, to prefer the enjoyment of the quiet and lawful company of a single wife in their beloved wilderness, than to be deprived of all their three or four women, and of their own liberty, and be compelled to work on the roads, or in the streets of Perth.

As for the baptism of the convicts into the faith of the Christian Church, it is painful that such baptism should be the cause of a breach of that Christian Charity which, until now, has prevailed, with very few exceptions, among the different sections of Christians in the colony. It would be with a view to keep that peace that, should at any time some act done by the Rev. Mr. Barry come to my knowledge, however opposed to my own convictions and the practices of my religion, I, as a fellow Christian, and as a fellow minister would not, in charity to him, permit myself the liberty of interfering publicly in his ministerial doings; but rather, in justice to him, I would say with sorrow, in the interior of my heart, and not in the columns of a newspaper, "if we had both the same convictions and the same practices, we should not be, the one priest or minister of the Catholic Church, and the other chaplain or minister of the Church Catholic, but we should be both ministers of the one either Catholic Church or Church Catholic; we should both believe the same dogma, and both be under the same pastor.

The respect due to a Christian minister does not permit me to inquire whether the Rev. Mr. Barry, has not himself administered at many times the Baptism, a Sacrament so holy, conferring a title to all other sacraments, and requiring an acknowledgment of the ever blessed Trinity, and of the chief doctrines of Christianity, without a full conviction of the acceptance of those doctrines, without instructions ..... I would dare to suspect that many witnesses could perhaps be found at Fremantle to prove that the Rev. Mr. Barry has, many and many times, administered Baptism to persons as much deprived of all those conditions as the two poor natives who were baptized by me in the last moments of their life; or, perhaps, going further, they will even say that the reverend gentlemen never did baptize in that town any one better instructed or better disposed than those two natives.

Now, not wishing myself to be the first to throw the stone that would excite religious controversies, and cause perhaps disedification among the friendly Christian community of all denominations in the colony, I will not ask the reverend gentlemen, when so doing, whether he forgot the test required of old by St. Philip the Apostle, even from a learned heathen, equal to any of us in intelligence and culture, when requesting to be baptized, "If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest." (Acts 8, 37), or whether he found in any other part of the written Word of God a test derogatory to that Scriptural authority, and authorising a Christian minister to baptize babies, or lastly, whether, in so doing, is he guided by some other rule, different from the Word of God, which I should presume he does not admit, as I really do — I will only permit myself to say, with all due deference to Mr. Barry, that the natives of Australia, as far as matters of religion and of a spiritual nature are concerned, are as much babies, and more so, if possible, as the infants that were born yesterday.

Were I told that the reverend gentleman thinks that, even at the moment of their being launched into eternity, the ignorant aborigines cannot be baptized for want of a real conviction of all the truths of religion, or in consequence of the absence of a definite and clear idea of the life to come, I should answer that, as we belong to different sections of Christians, it is not wonderful that, whatever may be our mutual respect for each other personally, we do not entirely agree in the same religious tenets.

I am, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
Salvador Ribaya, Priest.
Perth, April 25, 1855.

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Shipping Intelligence. Sailed, The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News, 2 May 1856, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3176963:

On the 25th ultimo, the William Hammond, for Ceylon. Passengers—Rev. Messrs. Aragon and Ribaya. [...]

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St. John's Catholic Church Centenary, Toodyay Herald, 7 May 1953, p 1, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149576228:

To mark the centenary of the canonical erection of Toodyay as a parish, His Grace Archbishop Prendiville presided at Solemn High Mass in St. John the Baptist Church on Sunday, April 26. The Mass concluded a mission preached by the Oblate Fathers and was followed by the chanting of a solemn Te Deum.

According to the old parish records the first official reference to the church in Toodyay is in the year 1853, but some of the older inhabitants admit that the old township, which is five miles west of the township of the present day, existed since about 1845 and had its own church.

This is probably correct, since the ruins of the church in West Toodyay still remain. There is no reference as to the year in which the church was built there, but some of the Benedictine priests believe that during those early years Mass was celebrated in private houses by a priest who came occasionally. This would account for the fact that there are no official records until 1853.

The present church was certainly built before 1859 and the church in West Toodyay was built in 1850 or 1852. - West Toodyay did not exist for many years as the people changed their habitation to where Toodyay now stands. The new township was known as Newcastle and it retained this name until about 1909 when the name of the original town was given to it. It had its own church probably about 1856 or 1857.

The first available record discloses the name of Rev. Peter Aragon in 1853. He was probably the first resident priest. Baptisms are recorded by him in an old register. The succeeding priests, in the order found in the parish registers, are as follows:- Rev. R. Martelli, 1854; Rev. T. Donovan and Rev. Salvado Ribaya, 1855; [...]

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Conflicting year of death:

• Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 1, 1979, p 58: "Ribaya, Salvador OSB / Ital. /W.A. (New Nor. etc '53-'56). Ceylon. Spain. d. Valencia 1.6.1886";
• A Prayer-Calendar of Deceased Priests & Deacons in Australia 1788-2009, compiled by W.T. Southerwood, Sixth Edition, 2009, p 69: "New Norcia. d. 1.6.1866".