BISHOP AND HIS STIPEND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 6

BISHOP AND HIS STIPEND.

SURRENDER OF ONE-HALF. DEVOTION" TO EDUCATION. [by TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. At the Anglican Synod last night, Dean Carrington brought up the report of tho Select Committee, recommending the acceptance of Bishop Julius's offer of giving up Bishopscourt and accepting one-half of his present stipend. Tho committee, with one exception, felt it would have been a disaster had the bishop's offer been kclined. , Bishop Julius, addressing the synod, asked members to accept his offer. His family was scattered, and ho and his wife did not want to keep up a largo house and a largo estate—much too large for two. He did not want a largo salary to keep it up with. As for his successor, Bishop Julius said it would affect him. He would be a younger man with heavy calls, and there should be no diminution of the salary to him. But he himself would insist that tho salary should be paid to him to tho last penny, and he wouldi £ive what he had promised to the Standing Committee for the purposes of education. He would feel much pained were his offer not accepted. The Rev. Mr. Brady said he had come there prepared to fight against the bishop's offer as derogatory to the dignity of the diocese, but he had been converted by His Lordshin's speech, and would cordially support the motion. The motion was then carried.