LIBERALITY OF NAPIER CHURCHMEN.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 25, 29 July 1895, Page 4

LIBERALITY OF NAPIER CHURCHMEN.

.£l2OO RAISED IN A WEEK. | BT TBLEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Napibb, 28th July. Last Sunday Bean Hovell reminded tho Cathedral congregation that there Btill romained a debt of iSOOO on Iho building, the interest on which was a material drag on the annual income. He therefore asked them to make a epeoiftl effort to raiso J3IOC( during the week. This morning the Cathedral was crowded by a congregation anxious to hoar the rosnlt, thoneh few expeoted the amount asked for ■would be raised. When the Dean appeared with the large Cathedral alms-dish piled with cheques, notes, gold, silver and copper, and annonnced that over £1200 had been subscribed, there was visible emotion, and as the plate was deposited on the communion table the -whole congregation rose and sang the Doxology with thrilling effect. When Scan Hovell came to Napier 16 •-, »• ago he found one old wooden ohurch, * £ Me-down parsonage heavily in debt, • tnm«.. mnnioants' roll of 30. Sinoe then, and .a com* •"•athedral in brick and stone beside* the v/ 000, there have been built costing orer £I^. -.huroheß, three sohooltwowooden pariahs parsonages. The rooms, and two large *, than JEBOO, and debtdtoeether m now le«j He Cathedral the oommunioantß* roll at v. alone naabera geTeral hundred.