A HISTORICAL CHURCH.
Telegraph.— Own Correspondent.)
%. -. ' OPOTIKi; this day. services will be contacted to-moirow by the Ven. Arche&con Brocklehurst, of Hawke'3 Bay, .commemorate the fifty-second anniv?«ry °f the consecration of the Church 1 ®t- Stephen the Martvr. The church w ? 9 built in 1860 by the Rev. C. VolkDoriiig the Maori rising of 1865 vj' Volkner, scenting trouble* took his [ e .t° Auckland, but returned to Opbiki immediately, hoping by his presence °ui? n( * P ' or ' lac * preat influence the Maori people. Kereopa from Jaranaki had arrived with his followers arrested Volkner on his return to yjotiki. The missionary was then murcred. His body is now buried beneath toe. church.
;The Government held the church for , ten years, using it as. a fort. In .875 it was handed back to the people w Op°tiki and consecrated by Bishop Williams on November 21.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 274, 19 November 1927, Page 17
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