JUBILEE

FR. J. P. ROWLAND. Si.
Fr. J. P. Rowland. S.J., Director of Stonyhurst College Observatory, completed fifty yeats in the Society of Jesus on September 7—an anniversary which coincides with Fa. Rowland's silver jubilee at Stonyhurst Observatory.
A Blackburn native, Fr. Rowland has spent most of his life in the vicinity of the historic Jesuit College and it is worthy of note that in the great extension scheme of 1877 the work was entrusted to Mr. Thomas Craven, uncle nr Fr. Rowland, whose father was cashier to the firm.
An old boy of St. Joseph's school, Hurst Green, Fr. Rowland matriculated with high honour as a student at Mount St. Mary's. Joining the Society of Jesus on September 8, 1894, he entered Manresa House, Roehampton, passing on to St. Mary's Hall, Stonyburst, for philosophical study. Fr. Rowland took his London degree of B.Sc. in 1906, and after a year in Ireland went to Oxford University for research work.
Parishioners of SS. Peter and Paul, Tyne Dock, South Shields, have presented the Very Rev. Dean James Bradley, their parish priest, with a substantial cheque to mark the anniversary of his fiftieth year in the priesthood. During his long term at 'Tyne Dock. Fr. Bradley has founded other parishes and cleared his own church of debt.