ARCHBISHOP OF MELBOURNE
DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, November 10. The Rt. Rev. F. W. Head, the new Archbishop of Melbourne, on leaving Liverpool on board the Euripides, received an ♦enthusiastic send-off at the landing stage. The clergy present included Archdeacon Howson and Canon Morley Stevenson. About a score of members of the Liverpool branch of the Old Coldstreamers’ Association, of which the Archbishop is an honorary member, presented him with a case of tobacco pipes. Replying, Archbishop Head said he hoped what he learned from the Coldstreamers’ and other members of the Guards’ Division, of which he was senior chaplain, would make him a better man. better fitted for the big job ahead. Invited to send messages to Australia, he said: “Tell the people of Australia I am setting out full of hope, conscious of all the wonderful sympathy already promised me, and wit'll the belief that Australia has a tremendous part to play in the future of the Empire, and it is a privilege to feel called to take some share therein.”
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