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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 210, 11 September 1901, Page 1

“ What stipend is received by our Maori clergy ? ” asks a writer in the Church Gazette, and he goes on to say: “The answer is some £SO a year, with a prospect of serious decrease. How can they adequately support their families on such an income? What wonder if the work of God suffers sometimes because precious time is lost in growing crops to eke out a living ? Can we calmly allow this state of things to go on without stirring a finger to help? Archdeacon Williams many months ago offered to give £IOOO to the Native Pastorate Fund for this diocese, if £2OOO were raised to meet it; and there are those who are endeavoring to find ways and means of raising the money. But, it may be urged, there are so many calls for contributions. True; but what about the many hundreds spent at the late opera season. We have spring enough to rise to such an opportunity oi pleasure. Have we not spring enough to rise to meet the calls of God’s work? At a meeting of registered daiiymen, he’d at Lyttelton, it was decided to keep the nr Ik at the standard price of 4d per quart all the year round. A further meeting will be held to form a union. Creameries are being started in many districts in the South Island, the requisite guarantee as to number of cows being promptly furnished, New Zealand was not going to let Old England call in vain, Together they the foemen met, And side by side were slain. ’Tis said “ disease kills more than war,” And nothing can be truer; When coughs and colds knock at the door, Take Woods’ G«eat Peppermint Core,