AN AVALANCHE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14004, 9 March 1909, Page 5

AN AVALANCHE.

TWENTY LIVES LOST. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. (Received March 9, 1.5 a.m.) v ' Vienna, March 8. An avalanche near Salzburg overwhelmed a workmen's shelter-house, 20 men being killed. t ~r * AGAPEMONITE LEADER. SMYTH-PI GGOTT UNFROCKED. 1 * By Telegraph.Press Association. —Copyright." London, March 7. ' . De. Kennion (Bishop of Bath and Wells) has unfrocked James SmythPiggott', leader of the Agapemonite£, who did not appear at the ecclesiastical court to defend himself. The ceremony, which was sombre and impressive, was the first of the kind held at Wells during the thousand years which have intervened since Edward the Elder established the See in; 909 A.D.. !

Last month the case of Smyth Pigott, a clergyman of the Church of England, ' was dealt with by the Consistory Court ..of the diocese of Bath and Wells. Pigott, who is the leader of the sect known as the AgapemoniteSj was charged with. immorality, and the charges were held to be proved. Bishop Kennion, of , Bath and Wells, acting upon the finding of the Court, caused great surprise by merely " depriving" Smyth Pigott of his license." It was the Archbishop of Canterbury who insisted upon the greater punishment of l unfrocking Pigott being inflicted, thus pre-, venting him from officiating in any diocese in the world. *