THE EPISCOPALIAN SYNOD.

Evening Star, Issue 6262, 11 April 1883, Page 2

THE EPISCOPALIAN SYNOD.

The General Synod negatived the Bill fqr giving the bishops .more power in allotf ting clergy by enabling them to recommend, for nomination any man they considered fitted for a V.acftnt A shblelfief H§6n was spent in discussing, a petition to the legislature praying for f rants to denominational, schools, and, for briptiirkl' teaching in the ' State schocns. The Rev. A. R. Fitchett unfolded a lengthy scheme of his ownrThe esseuce"oHt dooslated In the abandonment oPeducation by the State in Centres of population, the existing schools to be handed over to the different denominations to work; in scattered dis-; tricta the Government to carry on the schools;. rating the peoplb t)i tub district fbl* tlifeil’ support, Government merely to examine, and certificate teachers; to put aside a sum {say L 50.000) to be awarded in scholarships, and to enforce compulsory attendance. All children whose parents oodid not pay school fees to be educated ■freb, v ~' The Synod sat till neatly, midnight, find finally adopted the first clause of the petition praying for grants in aid of denominational schools. The debate on the clause relating to religious teaching in State schools was adjourned.