LATE BISHOP GRIMES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 April 1915, Page 2

LATE BISHOP GRIMES

BURIAL CEREMONIALS

AT the services in the Ohristchurch Roman Catholic Cathedral in connection with the interment, of the body of the late Bishop Grimes, on Thursday last, there was a large gathering, and the building was crowded. Among those present were representatives of the Governor, public bodies, and institutes Archbishop O'Shea pronounced a panegyric, He briefly expressed thanks to the Catholic clergy and laity for. their kind messages, and for the sympathy of all creeds and classes in the Dominion After referring to the late Bishop's career, he said that the departed prelate had great love of the Dominion, for which he always predicted a splendid future. The Church had sustained a severe loss, but he wrs not without great hope that grief would draw many together, and would help to draw closer those of various creeds.