SPECIAL ARTICLE. BISHOP HADFIELD

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20250, 30 May 1931, Page 13

SPECIAL ARTICLE. BISHOP HADFIELD

likjjoNAßY ANI) 3iyaBBMAN- ' I' » 03 TBE P,MS ' } ]|pl'«- c ; McSl " J 1:0 110 . At : Prclater peans valry xties, erical tcrial ■ had 1 the e inivlicn, at to ; bold In imory itc of ience , and early iland, f his rords. oubty to pedfc6 social i ourdual i that iliied who itions Who, still that •ritod from them--1 ens and adenpt to ,n inttlon, ipdke f the B, as small the They fatedown l the t adsauae troag üblie gave sd o* f the '-four all work* years , who B«urasure roved will* lid a ,eems > y of mine Dther rtop, nany story ears. Vat, iliall. E re--10T0.4 was ;dom auti•ljose well, atdr:dron i 4 .1080rried > lay e«ret td .rutli > the egan »£teft thfia cnew iwiiy ill to u an im "kat hiiai;hero »lood ■ . . Hadtheir | keen his Jmnrhat hia Ton t in* fcbla Hals fro# lirch the itiea, Jjoth 0 in t tho 1 her bfeen I'Wf atlpS wM iiteh, ?WlO and mtiy dow, with iflecinths lladeuce ie Ji n on i on s on r as hiiii. like of 1860, {inal ;ruth wptti your nubWat"

should Be iii Otaki Chuteh in written by-a Maori wfcq knew fiun *ntf could appreciate ho flone lot tho Maori race, and Especially Ngatiraukawa an 4 Hgatiawa. If 111 till? tributUj anything escaped Abraham, it was the quotation, that SeVfpyii ap* plied to Haafiold When fro called JUW a "Juinirtha Qui de bo miiunitiiii lo^ui no means 'renowned f"r indiscriminate praise of missionaries, bad ppid » splendid tribute to W»4fieid, then » Very young man; it was applicable Swngfa all biß life- ''Hadfleld waa * pfc'ffecst e?it}itlsiafefc ia hu vodfction. A highly edUeited gentleman, gifted with an oxtraordin&ry eharo of t&lentfj and tlie most delicate and honourable feelings; mild and forbearing, persuasive and unassuming ift msanera; of distineußbcd address and personal appearance, possessed of. very extended information on most general endowed, in short, mth all the necessary qualifications for _ being known and . admired m the highest citcles (Sf the Old World* or for enjWjM? tlie luKuries and cqwf<?rts which upon the most sotf-denyiug in a highly civilipe<j ?pciety, be thcHsa doVotod his every taught ? nd enWgy to t?e reclamation and BtueUoravaneed theifr mo6t W&tlilce and Ignorant sta?d When he arrived amongst tntein." '' Hadfield lived, pearly three /f?£ 8 longer than hi# vrjfo; l,}] a faith thnt of pain and nge.tes #*£ £K Iffifi clear to the en 4. £«wa !S SwuSST i» aw *">r «* otTeeeoter, IM4/WN# #uuuner was on the flelds and brig t Dfiss ftllea ft* hifl /„iiv hit niemoriey to Mfl S lo«g and to»6b,n(J dnngeAt. fonft. W« Jays of the 'afctlcp and of th 6 cftim, JiadficW died prober as- svi« ,y ww r™« Totaro, Morton. (Concluded.)