CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3898, 14 April 1877, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

The J'Mitnr does not hold himself rcspniiviWo fur opinions cx]uv.s^cJ by correspondents. MR ROUENSON'S ORDERS. £n;, — So Mr Molar lias rushed into print, and actually lias the temerity to sign his own name io a letter in your paper, abusing the itev. Mv ßobinson, -when that gentleman is not in tlio colony to take his own part, or to reply to the slanders which are now heaped upon him. It is rather laughable-that 3lv 11 miry C. Wilson, of all puopie in 2Napier, should bo the champion of the Church party ; but he only makes it more apparent than ever that he is just a " caLs-paw" in the whole ailair. 1 would ask you, sir, does it stand to reason that Mr Robinson, would be allowed to oliioiate in St. John's if he hud not shown .wmc proof of his being a priest in full orders I He arrived in Napier about the middle of January last year, and was at once allowed to administer the priest's ollice. Surely, it is the livst duty of a Hi.-ihop, when a strange cleryyman is ap]iointed to a parish, to satisfy himself that such clergyman is duly cjualilied for Hie ofiice. and our Into Bishop was certainly not the man to make such an omission. His unfortunate illness did not commence- until nearly three months after Jslr Robinson's arrival, and flip Bishop himself, as some of your readers will remember, conducted service Avith Mr Robinson on more than one occasion. The fact of the Primate not having re-

ceived a coj)y of Mr Robinson's orders is now made a handle for the grossest abuse to be hurled at him. I would ask where was the necessity for sending his orders to Christchurch, when he was leaving the colony for England i But the extremely Christian-like spirit which is displayed by certain parties now to blacken a man's character in his absence will have its full effect on the late congregation, and will leave St. John's emptier than before, if that is possible. — I am, &c, OiiSERVEK.