STANDING COMMITTEE OF SYNOD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12996, 11 December 1902, Page 7

STANDING COMMITTEE OF SYNOD.

. A ; combined meeting of. the Standing • Committee of Synod and the CathedTui Chapter was held, on Dec. 9, as provided for in" The Cathedral Statute, 180-I." Tne Bishop has the presentation to half of the .clerical and half of the lay seats in the Chapter, and the appointment to tne remaining; seats is Tested in the Standing Committee and the 'Cathedral Chapter, acting together. The Bishop. first announced that, in the , place of the late >E. J. S. -Harinan, he had 'appointed Mr George Harris to boa, lay ■ member of the Chapter. The annoimco- •. ntent was received with much satisfaction. ' .The meeting then proceeded to the elec,tior»of a lay member of the Chapter in the 'place of Mr" Henry James Ainger, who had ' retired 'by rotation in November. Mr Ainget was unanimously re-elected for a further term of six years. / ,- A'-, meeting of the Standing Committee " then .followed. . '. ■ . : . i.;- •The Bishop announced that the .o.ev H. Northcote, M.A., was resigning the cure of Lincoln on/Dec. 31, in order to return '"■ to'England, and that the' euro had been offered to and accepted! by the 'Rev T. Jasper. *.- Smyth, M.A. (of Akaroa), who.would come . into residence in February. 'He had offered the charge of the parish of Akaroa to the . Kev W. Walmsley Sedgwick, B.A. (of Waikari), whose-reply he was awaiting'. The •Bishop read a letter from the present editor ■. 'of the "'New Zealand Church News/' resigning his position from the end of March •' next-. The Bishop stated that he had in ■": view a, satisfactorv appointment to the editorship, of the paper, if lie could count ...on-tie amount voted for editorial expenses and remuneration being increased. It "was Msolved— (1) That the Standing 'Committee has received with regret the in-timation-of the proposed resignation of the 'editor of the "New Zealand' Church ■News," rand "desires to express its cordial ■'•■ appreciation of his past' services to the diocese; (2) that the. sum of £25 be allo- ,■• cated from the surrius of.the Church Tro"pertr Trust, srnbsidv for the cm-rent year, . in addition *to the "sum of £SO . voted 'by Synod, in order .to. allow the payment of such extra sum to the editor of the "Now Zealand Church /News" for the six months, April 1. to 'Sept: 30, 1303. , The .report; of the- . sub-committee -•■ for , Church Missions with . reference to the Maori Mission and the cures of Waimate, Woolston and Sumner, was r-?aa\ together with a letter from the Rev W. Bonnldson. acting-chaplain at St Stephens, YVoodend, on the subject of the Maori Mission. ■ After fliscussion.it was resolved .that, pending'the session of the Diocesan' Synod, the arrancremeatv in respect of the diocesan Maori mission should .be left in the hands ■ of the Bishop, and' also that a Church Mission Fund grant, at the rate of £75 a year, should be placed at the disposal of the -Bishop-, .pending the next session of Synod, ' for the work of a. clergyman in the outlying portions of the parish of Waimate. with a view to the formation later of a separate cure. It>was also decided that a grant from the Church Mission Fund should be made from Julv 1 last to the cure of Wool- ' ston, at -the rate of £SO a year, and a .grant from the same fund to the cure of v. Sumner, at the rats of £2O a year. ." "Keports from the sub-committees on edu- • ' nvtioEr- and on.temperance 'work respectively' were read and : received. '• '■'■■., A design "for ah addition to' the Fcnual"joa schoolroom was approved. The' Bishop then referred to -the loss recently sustained by the diocese in the death >f Mr K. J. S." Tlarman. a member of jvnod and of several Church bodies, and a jlian universally trusted and respected for . his worthy Christian character. '". It was "resolved, the members all standing, that the Bishop should be respectfully 'iv requested to express to the bereaved widow '-. and .family, en the part of the Standing ; Committee, its sincere sympathy am] sense. k of -the. great, loss sustained byj.be diocese in <:' Mr''Harnian's death. ...•'•: The'Bishop asked for, nominations to the ; ; office of Diocesan Nominator, vacant by "<'" the*'deatli"of Mr Harman: -."■"' %wo nominations were made, but before i proceeding .to a ballot, a motion, was made ''"that the election should be deferred until 'the, next meeting.'" This was carried. The election of a member of the Clergy Pension Trust Board was in like manner deferred;' - ; •' ; The Bishop nominated Mr Helycr Wed- • derhv.vn Bishop as nu assessor of the ' ' Bishop's Court, and tho Standing Commit- .; tee concurred with the appointment? 1 'An application by. the Diocesan Ckrk was referred to Mr H. W. Bishop and Mr H. D. Andrews, as a sub-committee, to inquire generally into the position of the diocesan office staff, and rep.ort. The report on the inspection of the Lincoln Vicarage was read, and the usual '. course of sending a copy to the, Church \ tifficers decided upon. •• [ . The Standing Committee then rose.