PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 11 July 1918, Page 35

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

Father J. W. Carroll, and Father Wall, chaplains to the Forces, left Capetown for Europe recently after a long term of service in East Africa. Father Wall, who is a Mill Hill missionary, has had blackwater fever, and sadly needs a rest (states the Catholic Magazine for So-uth Africa). From the same source we learn that the Rev. I. Saccadas, 0.M.1., once in Johannesburg, has been at the European front since the beginning of the war. Recently he was attached to the Manchester Regiment as an interpreter. When last heard from, he was on the Purchase Board. For a long time he was in the actual firing line, and was in the thick of it, during the great offensive around Verdun. Speaking at Rhodes University College during a recent visit of the Administrator of the Cape Province the Chairman of the Senate, Professor Kidd, referred particularly to the positions gained by Sister Mary Alacoque Brien in the English (Honors department), and by Sister Cecilia in French (also Honors), at the B.A. examination. Sister Alacoque, who is an old pupil of the King Williams Town Convent, has since been awarded the King's Gold Medal for modern languages. Both Sisters are Dominicans. The city of Shanghai, China, has one of the most eminent citizens of the Orient in the person of Joseph Loh pa hong, a practical Catholic. According to Father Walsh, lie is a daily Communicant. His business interests are very large, but he manages to order his daily life on religious lines. He is the founder and supporter of a model modern hospital in Shanghai which is under the control of the Sisters of Charity. The death of Brother Jerome (Hugh J. Harroway), of the Marist Brothers, occurred at the Colonial Hospital, Suva, on Sunday, June 16. Brother Jerome was 56 years of age, and was born in Ayrshire, ScotLand. He entered the Order of the Marist Brothers in Sydney in 1884, and after the usual period of training was sent to New Zealand, where he remained for about 16 years. In 1901 he was transferred to Fiji, and was attached to the teaching staff of Naililili and Cawaci. The Catholic University Institute, Tokyo, Japan, notifies the recent appointment of the Rev. Mark J. McNeal, S.J., a graduate of Georgetown University, Washington, as Lecturer in English Litertaure in the Imperial University of Tokyo. He is the first American so honored by the Japanese, and his selection is therefore welcomed with special gratification by the American Association. The students are the "pick" of all Japan. Father McNeal is thus offered an excellent opportunity of constant association with the professors of the University and of close familiarity with its students. He will doubtless be able, incidentally, to remove many false notions regarding Christianity at the very centre of the intellectual life of Japan. His genial character, no less than his literary accomplishments, will win for him many friends among the faculty and the pupils. Most Rev. Dr. Higgins, Auxiliary-Bishop and Vicar-Apostolic of Tuam archdiocese, died unexpectedly on April 23 at his residence, St. Mary's, Castlebar. The Most Rev. Michael Higgins was born at Ballyheane, Castlebar, about 54 years ago. He studied for the priesthood at St. Jarlath's Diocesan College, Tuam, and Maynooth National College. He was ordained in 1888, and was appointed professor at St. Jarlath's, of which he later became President. In 1905, he was created Canon of the Chapter, and in 1910 was appointed parish priest of Cummer. In 1912 he was transferred to the pastorship of Castlebar, and appointed Vicar-General of the diocese. The same year he was appointed Assistant Bishop of Tuam, with the titular See of Temnus. On the death of Archbishop Healy Dr. Higgins was appointed Administrator of the diocese pending the selection of an Archbishop.