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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12400, 13 October 1903, Page 5

The days when every bishop had the reputation of being a scholar seem to have passed undoubtedly because with the greatei demand for practical work there has been set Upon the virtue of organisation and the power of stimulus a higher value. But to a churchman of 50 years ago it would have appeared extraordinary that the Archbishop of Canterbury and at least 10 bishops should have, taken only an ordinary "pass" degree, while the Archbishopric of York, should be held by a "third classman," and yet another important see by an "honorary fourth." classman. Yet it is only fair to 'remember that .the Bishops of Rochester, Hereford, and Chester are all "double firsts." Not less remarkable and much more important lias been the increase of the episcopate, and especially its expansion beyond the United Kingdom. A little over 50 years ago the Anglican episcopate in North America numbered three it now numbers 24. 'lucre was not a s ; r.gle bishop in New Zealand ; there are now seven. It) Australia there was a solitary bishop; there are now 19. In India there are 11; as against three; and in Africa 18. where at that time ther\? was not one. Altogether there are to-day close upon 100 bishops administering dioceses in the Empire outside the United Kingdom. ' Several carefully observed cases of falling hair frojji emotion have been recorded, but the following is probably one of the most curious. According to the Family Doctor, a normally healthy fanner, thirty-eight years of age, saw his child thrown out of a cart and trampled upon by a mule. He supposed it killed, and experienced in his fright and anguish a sensation of chilliness and tension in the head and face. The child escaped with a few bruises, but the father's hair, beard, and eyebrows commenced to drop out the next day, and by the end of a week he was entirely bald. A new growth of hair appeared in time, but- much finer. Whether or no the farmer lived in America is not recorded,.