BISHOP OF POLYNESIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13762, 29 May 1908, Page 3

BISHOP OF POLYNESIA.

I The Governor of Fiji ha* received, through { th« Under-Secretary'..of; State for ; th«.. Colt onics, the following communication rfOltf.fhff i secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury : '—"I an; requested by the Archbishop of j Canterbury to inform you that he ha.',* in J conjunction with the. ; , Bishop of London, j nominated the Rev. T. 0. Turtchell. at prej sent vicar of All Hallows, East India Dock; i Road, to be missionary Bishop in Polynesia-, | and that h« will proceed in due course if i consecrate him. The duties of the Bishop I will be to minister to member* of (he. AnI glican communion scattered throughout such I islands in Polynesia, as have at present mi j episcopal supervision for , (J ur ~,wn Church ! people. It is probable that his quarters will I be in the Fiji group, where he will h:nn j three ordained clergy, arc! in addition to tic 1 ministrations to white peopl« who are nir-ij;-bers of his Church, the Kish-.p will en'-:' gage in mission work among Indian coolies J and other imported labourers, who atii of course not Fijian-. fie ■~•., c.frci-e the j greatest care- not r,, touch th • work of dm j Wesleyans or of tin..' London Missionary Society in any of th'_- islands. J!:- .r:n»ion 'a not to those who are ••rubers of other j Christian bodies. Work among - Indian ! coolies and other imported labourers has (been in progress mi our part for a great J many years, and no new departure is being J made. Only it has become necessary to give I the full ministration.-! of our own Church to j our own people."