NAPIER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 February 1908, Page 5

NAPIER.

' . February 26. The Bishop of "Wniapu conducted a'communion.service at' Napier Cathedral 611 Sunday .'for the last timo prior tc his departuro .for England to attend the Lambeth Confcronce. Bishop Williams leaves Napier] 011 Thursday nex't to join the Coriiithic, sailing.from Wellington on February. ,20. In the course of 'a farowell sermon at . the Baptist. Church 011 Sunday, tho Rev. C. Dallastoil stated that there was a probability of ail" invitation, being sent by the office-bearers of the. church to the Rev. J. K. Archer, of Ori'msby, England, to succeed him. in: tho work here. Mr. Archer is well known _ as. a popular. preacher. , ' -'Arrangementsliavo been completed for the erection of a handsome structure .to replace tli'e shop in Hastings Streot, formerly occupied by Mr. J. M. Phillips,'and also that of thief.' friendly societies'' dispensary, the owners of the properties,' Messrs. M l Vay, Chambers, and Ellison, having come to an agreement whereby tho ouo building will cover the. whole area. Tlans are now in coursc. of preparation: ■ f BU>!o in Schools. ' discussion' has been , evoked here,by a,'proposal by a local clergyman'to. introduce Bible teaching into tlio main school,' leave to that end having been. granted'.by the School Conjmi.ttee: The "Daily Telegraph" recently criticised the action of the Ministers in an article headed "Making mischief." This heading was taken,as tho basis of a powerful sermon by Canon Mayne at' Napier . Cathedral bn Sunday. ' In the .course".of his remarks. Canon Mayne' said that , they had been . told . that .the action of the clergymen was an injustice to their Roman Catholic brethren, to whom all criedit was due.- . He wished that' the Church of England had' done tho saniO'as the Roman s Catholics, and.had its own schools.; Where was' tlio injustice to 'Roman. Catholics when it ns open to them to come in . and take their own children its, other Ministers didP The clergymen, would tye willing to give a Rijman Catholic priest his own children, which nvas .more than .thejr had themselves. 'Asihe explained, the different Ministers took tho. Standards alternately. All credit was duo'to the Roman Catholics for/what, they had done, and ho'ior 0110 would be glad if they received aid. in what they were doing, because .they deserved it. '