A Redwood Memory.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 8

A Redwood Memory.

Probably the only man in this court' try who had the privilege of seeing Dr. Francis Redwood consecrated a bishop 60 years ago. says the New Zealand Tablet, is Mr. James J. Marlow, dope ty-Mayor of Dunedin, a prominent Catholic layman and holder of the Popo’s Medal (Lea’s Cross). “I was just, a lad at the time,” Mr. Marlow said, in relating the incident, “and my parents had already booked theit passage to New Zealand. On March 17, 1874, about a week before we left London for the strange land (wo left ■ on March 25, Lady Day, 1874), my father said to me: “I am now going to show you something you will probably ■ never see in the place to which wo are ' going.’ And he took mo to St. Ann’s Church, Spicer Street, where the young ■ bishop was being consecrated by Arch--1 bishop Manning, of Westminster. I ’ little thought at the time that I should bo privileged to know that voting scholar when he had grown old in the service of the church in the very conn* try to which I myself was going. Tint - day was a memorable one for me, and 1 shall never forgot the scene ’’