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Evening Star, Issue 12761, 14 March 1906, Page 4

The Primate's departure on a visit to England calls for a few -words of The Primate's sympathetic and appreciative Departure, notice; not many words, however, for we need hardly say that Dr N-evill is not in a mood for compliments or eulogy. Praise has a hollow sound to ears that are longing for a voice ■that is still, and in the loneliness of loss the -world's respect is but a poor consolation. Nevertheless, let us just say in so .many words that the people of Dunedin, of all classes and denominations, are actively mindful of all the self-sacrificing work which the good Bishop has performed since the far-distant day, thirty-five years* next June, when lie was consecrated in St. Paul's Church to the episcopal office. In that work, through long years, he had the earnest and sustaining co-operation of the gentle and gracious lady whom he is now mourning; henceforth, in the evening of life, it must be a solitary work. His people—and hundreds who are not his 'people, in the special senses—will tiust that strength and comfort. may be given to him; and that (though he is, we believe, the oldest prelate, in point of consecration, in the Anglican conimunion) the benefit of |

his distinguished gifts and ripe experience may still be enjoyed for some years by his diocese, .as welj as by the colonial church over which he presides as Primate.