DIOCESAN STANDING COMMITTEE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11888, 11 May 1899, Page 6

DIOCESAN STANDING COMMITTEE.

The Standing Committee met on Tuesday. It was resolved that the sum of £5, travelling expenses of the clergyman who officiated at St Stephen's during the absence of the -'chaplain at the Chatham Islands, should be paid from the Maori Mission Fund! The Bishop informed the committee that a proposal was on foot to make a separate parochial district of Belfast and Marshland, that it had been approved by the vesbry of Papanui, and that when boundaries were settled he 'would a?k the committee to recommend the division to the Synod; that a student from England had arrived, and would probably be ordained en Trinity Sunday, to serve the assistant curacy of the wide parish of Rakaia, working chiefly at Methven, Highbank, etc. ; that he had as yet been unable to obtain an assistant curate for Waimate; that he had appointed :he Rev W. Dunkley, on April 1 last, chaplain of the Female Refuge, Linwood, the duties of which he could discharge consistently with his duties at ihe Cati*:dral. It was decided to postpone until the June meeting the ekction of a Church Property Trustee in tine place of Canon Harper, resigned. Reports and a statement of arrears of clergy stipends were read, and the meeting terminated.