The London Dioceses

Westminster
SUCCESSES AT TOTTENHAM
St Francis of Sales's elementary schools, Tottenham, have again had a most successful year. Although a comparatively small school, the pupils have gained no rcss than nine sebandary, one technical, one commercial, and three central school scholarships. The boys also gained a silver cup for the Tottenham schoolboys' football league, being unbeaten throughout the season, and -the girls have been awarded a certificate for dancing in the Tottenham musical festival.
ST. ALBAN'S DAY
The usual Guild of Ransom procession took place at St. Albans on St. Alban s day, Saturday. After a sermon frbni the preacher, Dom Vincent Scully, C.R.1,., in SS. Stephen and Albans church, the procession marched to the former abbey church where it broke up and private xisits were madeto the empty shrine of the saint in the retrochoir. The procession reformed and returned to the church for Benediction. It is a great pity that this procession in honour 'of our first martyr is not better attended from neighbouring parishes, and from London: it ought to be a rendezvous for the faithful from at least all over Hertfordshire..
ROXBOROUGH PARK SCITOOLS
Tile official sanction of the Board of F -cation has ju:: been granted for the extension by 120 school-places. of the elemartary schools of Our Lady and St. Thomas of Canterbury, Roxboreugh Park, 'Harrow. The total accommodation will thus ba brow ht up to 320.
FORTY HOURS AT HARROW The Forty Houre' prayer at Harrow closed on Sunday evening with. an indoor procession. For the exposition Mass, M . Frederick Ha,,. took his choir from the Cgrroelite church, Kensington; for Saturday's "Lauda Sion'', Mr. Robert Hasberry's Spanish Place Choral Society were in :le-re:lance, while Frs. L. Ward, of uthalt and M. T. Beckett, of Kenton, also assisted Fr. :litcheock.
TABLEAUX AT CUSTOM HOUSE Tableaux of the newly canonised martyrs, of Cur Lady of Lourdes, the Va.,: of the Cross, etc., were striking res of Sunday's Ransom Guild procession from Le Anne's, Custom House. Goan seamen carried the statue of their favourite St. 7rancis Xavier, and 60 first comrfAicants e included in the 1,000 strong procession. Fr. Steadman, of the ransom Guild, from Walthamstow, with Fr. .=`. Cailess, later visited same 60 street shrines.
ST. ETHELDREDA-S DAY
The Resrninian provincial from Rugby was the eelebran: of High Mass for the patronal feast at St. Etheld-eda's, Ely-place,
on Sunday. Fr. Martin Deenesey. of the Catholic Missi;snary Society, was the mor tin; and evening preacher, and dealt with the Rosminians' hundred years of v: • since in 1835 they began activit:n at Pric Park, folio viag a brief stay in Co .nwall. The relic of St. Etheldrecla was exposed ehroughout the day, and it procession of the Blessed Sacrament look place along the street in the evening with'n the closed gates of the ancient "liberty".
WEST DRAYTON PROCESSION The rural aspect of West Drayton is still retained in its picturesque village green, and its beauty on Sunday night enhanced by tit_ Corpus Chtisti procession from the oldest church of the district, dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria. The siraing, led by the St. C ::terine's choir, was splendidly supported by art iegeitious arrangement of loud speakers conveying the organ accompaniment from the church on to the green.
Southwark
HENEIELD ANNUAL PROCESSION
The annual Corpus Christi procession at Hatfield, Surrey, took place on Sunday afternoon, and was attended by several hundred people. A new banner bearing the design of a gold ciborium on a white background was used for the first time by the local Men's Guild of the Blessed Sacrament. Children ofe Mary with their banners, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides with their flags, and others from ihe neighbouring villages took part. Benediction was given from two altars erected in the grounds cf "Red Oaks," il_e residence of Mts. Stern, and at the first of these, a sermon was preached by Fr. F. Gilbert, 0.S.F.C., giving the history of the feast. Mr. Hill, father of the preacher, acted as M.C., wearing the habit of a Franciscan tertiay. All taking part were afterwards entertitinCci to tea in the grounds of "Red Oaks."
PROCESSION ABANDONED Owing to the bad weather on Thursday, last week, the annual procession of the Blessed Sacrament, which was to be held at St. Joseph's College, Beulah Hill, was abandoned, vespers instead being celebrated in the college chapel. This is the first time for many years that weather has prevented this, one of the biagest events in the college year.
GARDEN FETE AT KEW
Dr. Genevieve RewcasCe, the national president, the `ID. tawark diocesaa secretary, the parochial president, and many other officials of the C.W.L. were present end took a large stare in organieing successful garden 1.:e on Saturday last in aid of the presbytery fupde for Our Lady of I.oreto and St. Winefride, Kew Gardens. Fr. E. Burt, of alv?brtlake. opened the fete, supported by ffer parochial Mari:-t clergy and Mr. E. I3isgood. The proceeds totalled upwar-2.s of 450.