RESIGNATION OF BISHOP HADFIELD.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7526, 16 April 1890, Page 2

RESIGNATION OF BISHOP HADFIELD.

[FROM Otm COBBSBPOHD7.iI-?.] WEIiLINGTON, Afdi,n. Bishop Hadfleld received this glfe&a a letter from the ex-Primata (M% Harper), enclosing the following cation (bearing yesterday's data) fe-'aiW Bishop of Nelson .—

"Cnrietsehurch, April lOfcb, SS»*i I dear Bishop Harper—l in tend m&w I a special meeting of General Sjwf « | Wellington oa April 23rd, for tlnffW I of the election of a Primato aalw** i firmation of the election of the J deacon Julius as Bishop of CfarisfeSspgr * f Yours faithfully (signed), A. B. P&& '. Immediately upon receipt of W» I; the Bishop of Wellington V nation of the Primaoy\in the feS*! | form, which he had drawn up in *** | after consultation with the Diaessa* 56 ' | oellor.— - I "To the Bight Her. Andre* &** | Suteir, Doctor of Divinity, Bishif J# »' I eon, a diocese of the Church of Ik f> | vinee of New Zealand, comraofilf I the Chnrch of England, being tin *&* d Bishop of the said Church. Wbe*»s f the last General , Synod of to* *f I Church, which met in Danediis »*• t month of Febmary, 1889, the MmW | Henry Jno. Chilly Harper, Hi*f "* I Christchtwch in the eaid f|f** f and. Piimate •of the' -eatd W i signified Ma. intention of resig «' *\ i Primacy and the .General i mc ac hia successor} Rad tfte*f,H | reason of the eaid Hhnry Jnfc | Harper nob having resigned afe tto fj 3 * | such election, it has b«ea cwSflfKvji i divers pereoan, aiemfaere of f* Jr P Church, that ®seh election | and void; and whereas the ss,dj m % I Jno, Chitfcy Harper bae nisce VU *J I election resigned the Primacy f Church j now, therefore, in order »**•** doubte snd contentiong with wf*«, i my election, sad in order ! peace of the said Church, I, Oot»*}« «£ field, Bishop of the Diocesa of » in the eaid province, do hereby* to j ancej with the provisions of *«fW'i«[ f titled, Canoa I, »f."f*& J Primate, and all rights an 4W« **iU j Given under my hand this eleventh «£ j AprU, in the year of out I Band eight hundred and ninety.— j O. WSMiXKGTOH." ] 'In accordance with the a*o"/&&jft i has been eammoned to.meet in, W©** , "* on the 23rd instant. ; i