ECCLESIASTICAL AND OTHER INFORMATION

BISHOPS' ENGAGEMENTS Westminster For Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster: Saturday, October 18. 17, Pembridge Villas, W. IL Opens and blesses Loreto House, 5 p.m. Sunday, October 19. Cathedral: Celebrates Mass for the Westminster branch of the Guild of St. Luke, SS. Cosmas and Damian, 8.30 a.m. Battersea Town Ball: Addresses Rally of Catholic Social Guild, 3 p.m. Tuesday. October 21. Archbishop's House: Presides at the October meeting of the Hierarchy of England and Wales. Thursday, October 23. Convent of the Sacred Heart, Hammersmith: Attends Day of Recollection for the Clergy, 11.30 am.
Mgr. Myers, Bishop Auxiliary to the Archbishop of Westminster, will shortly leave London on a visit to British Guiana, the West Indies and British Honduras, on behalf of the Holy See. He expects to be away from London for about three months, during which time no correspondence will be forwarded.
Southwark
For Mgr. Amigo, Archbishop. Bishop of Southwark: Sunday. October 19. Feast of the Dedication of the Cathedral. Sings Pontifical High Mass in the Pro-Cathedral at 11 a.m.; 630 p.m., sings Pontifical Vespers, preaches and gives Benediction in the Pro-Cathedral. October 21-22. Attends meeting of the Hierarchy at Westminster. Thursday, October 23. Visitation and Confirmation at East Wandsworth. 8 p.m.
Nottingham
For Mgr. Ellis, Bishop of Nottingham: Friday. October 17. Attends meeting of the Leicester Catholic Evidence Guild at Holy Cross Hall, Leicester. Sunday, October 19. Visitation and Confirmation, St. Mary the Crowned, Glossop, Derbyshire. Thursday, October 23. Opens bazaar In parish hall of Sacred Heart Church, Carlton, Notts.
Portsmouth
At the end of October, Mgr. King, Bishop of Portsmouth, will make his Ad Lftnina visit to Rome.
APPOINTMENTS Southwark The following appointments are announced in the diocese of South wark: the Rev. L. Woodroffe, to Ashdown Park as chaplain; the Rev. I. Torrance, to Sutton Park as parish priest; the Rev. F. Bird, to Tonbridge as parish priest; the Rev. C. Ward, to be priest-in-charge at Carshalton Beeches. Assistants: the -Rev. T. Donovan, to Ewell; the Rev.
C. Spender, to Godalming; the Rev.
D. Wilkins, to Lee; the Rev. J. Moran, to Sevenoaks; the Rev. G. Sullivan, to Worthing; the Rev. L. Whatmore, to Canterbury; the Rev. I. Proctor, to Eastbourne; the Rev.
E. Mundy (Raphoe), to Gravesend; the Rev. E. Cashman (Cork), to Norbiton. The Rev. P. Crehan (Elphin) has been recalled to Ireland.
ANNOUNCEMENTS Gaelic League of London A series of monthly lectures have been arranged. The October lecture, which will be in Irish, will be given on Sunday next, October 19, at 8 p.m., at the Gaelic League Rooms, 28, John Street, Holborn, W.C.I. The lecturer will be Mr. Maurice O'Connell, president of the London Gaelic League, who will speak on "Cumann na Scribheann Gaedhitge agus a cuid oibra" (" The Irish Texts Society and its Work.").
The annual Mass of the Guild of St. Luke and SS. Cosmas and Damian--the Catholic Doctors' Guild—will be held in the crypt of Westminster Cathedral on Sunday next, October 19, at 8.30. Cardinal Griffin will preach at the Mass
&bola of St. Michael On the Eve of the Feast of Christ the King, Saturday, October 25, Solemn ist Vespers and Compline will be sung by the Scholl of St. Michael and All Angels in the church of Our Holy Redeemer, Cheyne Row, Chelsea, at 7 p.m.
Interval Retreat Catholic members of the theatrical and kindred professions are reminded that the 30th one-day retreat at the Interval Club will be given, on Sunday, October 26, by Fr. Francis Devas, ST, and Fr. William Dotinelly, &J. The retreat will open with Mass in the club at 11 am.
Travelling Mission The Mission this week will visit Southborough and Rusthale in the parish of Tunbridge Wells. Mass will be said on Sunday, October 19, at Victoria Hall, Southborough, at 8.30, and at the Open-Air School at 10. Kingsdown and Borough Green, in the parish of Sevenoaks. Mass to be announced locally at the former and at Yew Tree Cottage, Borough Green, at 10.
SOCIETIES • London Teachers Several hundred Catholic • teachers assembled in St. Patrick's, Soho, on Monday last week, for their first monthly meeting of the new scholasflea! year. After Benediction, Canon Wood presided at a meeting addressed by Canon Arendzen, of St. Edmund's, Ware.
C.E.G., Derby A preliminary meeting with the object of forming an Apologetics Class and the training of Catholic Evidence Guild speakers, was held at St. Mary's Aloysius' Hall, Derby, on Thursday, October 16. Derby C.E.G. are hoping that many more will come along to future meetings to help in this effort at the defence of the Faith.
C.E.G. Inter-Guild The first post-war Inter-Guild conference of the Catholic Evidence Guild will take place from Friday, October 24 to Sunday, October 26, at St, Peter's Hall, Westminster. A mass meeting, presided over by Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, will take place at the Strand Theatre, Aldwych, London, at 3 p.m., on Sunday, October 26, A.C.T.U., Birmingham A special meeting of the Birmingham branch of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists took place In St. Chad's Hall, Birmingham, on October 15, to hear a report of the delegates to the National Conference at Manchester.
OBITUARIES THE REV. I. J. HEALY Solemn Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the Rev. John J. Healy, formerly of the Port Elizabeth Vicariate, South Africa, who died at his mother's home in Court Hey Drive, Liverpool, on October 6, aged 34 years. was offered in St. Margaret Mary's, Liverpool, on Thursday last week. The interment took place at Yew Tree Cemetery. Fr. Healy was an old boy of St. Edward's College, Liverpool.
BRO. CHARLES FORTUNE
The Rev, Bro. Charles Fortune, whose death, at the age of 77, we regret to announce, was born at Arklow in 1870. At the age of 21 he entered the De La Salle Order at Castletown, Leis. From 1892 to 1923 he was on the staff of the Brothers' school at Port Tewfick, Egypt, where he became a very wellknown figure throughout the Canal zone.
He returned to his native land in 1923 and was then appointed bursar at St. Joseph's Academy, Blackheath, a post he held till his death on October 9.
Solemn Requiem Mass was offered at St. Mary's, Blackheath, and was attended by relations and friends and by pupils and ex-pupils of the Academy. The funeral took place on Saturday at St. John's College, Kintbury, Berks, after Solemn Requiem Mass there, the celebrant and deacon being his cousins, Frs. Oliver and Kevin, O.F.M.
MR. ERNEST E. BATEMAN
The death took place on Friday last, at his home in Oxford. of Mr. Ernest E. Bateman, at the age of 67. Since the inauguration of the parish of Corpus Christi in Headington 13 years ago, Mr. Bateman had been parish treasurer, a member of the committee, sacristan and chairman, and was the recipient only a few months ago of an acknowledgment of his services in the form of a Mass in perpetuity for his late wife and himself, both great benefactors to the parish. He was also the architect of the Corpus Christi parish hall and, with a colleague, was responsible for the singing at the first Midnight Mass celebrated in Headington since the Reformation.
Requiem Mass was celebrated in Corpus Christi Church on Monday, Sung by his own colleagues in the choir, and the funeral took place at Headington cemetery.
APPRECIATION
LORD NELSON
The Very Rev. Canon Hyland, parish priest of St. Osmond's, Salisbury, made special references to the loss the parish had sustained by the death of Lord Nelson, one of its greatest benefactors. Canon Hyland mentioned that, even when he was practically on his death-bed, the late peer made provisions to ensure that the local children had their annual outing. The late Earl, a convert to the Church when a very young man, had rendered great service by restoring the Mass to a district which had been deprived of it for centuries. Guild of St. Luke