MELANESIAN MISSION.
NEW BISHOP TO BE SELECTED IN ENGLAND. The appointment of a now Bishop for Melanesia (which forms part o: the ecclesiastical Province of Sou- Zealand) has been placed in tho hands of the authorities in England. The mission staff is lo meet this month at a conference in the centre of the missionary area to elect a "head" to carry out the work (luring tho interregnum. Last year" operations wore commenced in the Santa' Cruz Group on the brotherhood system. Two ' clergymen—one an Oxford University man—and a numbor of teachers have started the work. The new departure of closer inter-island communication by means of an oil-eiigined schooner, will l>3 watched with interest. The built by Mr. C. Bailey, inn., of Auckland, at a cost of over .£IOOO sailed last month, in charge of Captain Blow, a crew of three nnd a boy., en route for the Solomon Islands.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1146, 6 June 1911, Page 9
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