Of Places

At Southwark. It will be at least five years before the rebuilding of Southwark Cathedral can commence, according to a report just made. The restoration of the building as it was before the bombing of 1941 would
cost, at least, £67,000, A second scheme under consideration would involve the expenditure of £194.000.
At Dublin. An early announcement is expected concerning plans for the erection of Dublin's new cathedral, on the purchased site, near Merrinn Square.
From Leicester. A pilgrim hi a bathchair who travelled the 200 miles In Walsinghatn from Leicester, organised the pilgrimage from that town, which was joined by pilgrims from Grimsby, Bishops Stortford, and Derby. He is Mr. Edmund Taylor, and he has travelled to Norwich and Great Yarmouth in the mechanically propelled chair,
At Petit Wood, Kent. A model railway and riding ponies were features of a fete in aid of St. James' Church, Pelts Wood. Two stalls were run by the Union of Catholic Mothers and the Legion of Mary, At Newcastle. Buried together on Monday of this week were Mr. and Mrs. Keogh, parishioners of the Sacred heart Church, Low Westwood, Newcastle; whose deaths occurred last Friday. Mr. Keogh died in a Newcastle infirmary. Unable to visit him, because of her own illness, his wife collapsed and died when she heard of his death.
At Kenilworth. A gymkhana, In which one young rider, Marie Clewes. won four prizes and a special prize us the best in the show, was run last week at Crackley Hall, Kenilworth, in aid of St. Austin's Memorial Hall. The show was opened by the Rev. W. B. Swift, parish priest at St. Augustine's, Kenilworth,
At Melton Mowbray. Victim of the recent accident at Holwell Works, when five workmen were killed, Mr. Arthur Birch was buried from St. John the Baptist's Church. Melton Mowbray, last week. Requiem Mass was celebrated after the body lay overnight in the church. A tribute to Mr. Birch was paid by his parish priest, the Rev. A. Bermingham. Works officials attended the funeral.
At Clacton-on-Sea. Au oldolme " Costers' Market " was the novel form which an effort to raise funds for Our Lady's Church, Clacton, took on Tuesday of last week. Sports, the " market " and sideshows doubled the target amount of £150 aimed at by the orga n Ise; s, At Halifax. That many people had been brought back to the Church through the work of the C.W.L. canteen at West Grove House, Halifax, was the claim made last week, when it was formally closed. A surplus of £54 was left when the finances of the canteen were balanced. This amount is being sent to the central fund in London for canteens abroad.
In Wales. The great yearly pilgrimage in honour of Our Lady and St. Non, suspended for some years during war conditions, was revived last Sunday. Thousands of people from Fishguard, Milford Haven, Haverfordwest, Pembroke Dock, Llanelly and Carmarthen gathered at " Non's Well," since before the Reformation a regular Welsh place of pilgrimage.
At Cotton College, Music, Psychology, Local Government, Theology, Drama, and General Organisation were some of the subjects discussed at the Leadership Week run by Birmingham Diocesan Youth Council at Cotton Colledge, Stalls, recently.