HIS LORDSHIP BISHOP CLEARY

New Zealand Tablet, 29 July 1915, Page 35

HIS LORDSHIP BISHOP CLEARY

We are authorised to publish the following statement regarding the illness of the Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland:—The operation on the Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, took place in a private hospital in Sydney on June 28. It lasted nearly three hours,, and necessitates the patient remaining continuously in bed for some four weeks. A second operation is to take place later on, as soon as he will be physically fit for it. The chief trouble, however, is the neuritis and nerve overstrain. The patient’s intellectual keenness and activity make the much-desired mental rest a matter of difficulty ; but his reading matter has been reduced to a small minimum, and visits and correspondence to him are rigidly forbidden. The only visitor allowedfor brief spaces —is his spiritual director, Rev. Dr. Ormond, secretary to the Apostolic Delegation, who administers the Sacraments to him and shows him a winning kindness of which the Bishop speaks in most grateful terms. A highly skilled surgeon, also the foremost nerve specialist in Sydney, are both in daily attendance on the patient, who throughout maintains the brightest and most cheerful disposition. It will, however, be a considerable time before his health is sufficiently improved to allow him to leave the hospital.