BISHOP COWIE IN LONDON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 1

BISHOP COWIE IN LONDON.

TAKEN FOR A DYNAMITER

The , following, - extracts from a diary which is being kept by Bishop Cowie, of Auckland, during his visit to England will be read with interest:—“March 14.—We - had the pleasure of receiving lette'rs from many dear friends in Auckland. In the afternoonT went to the 1.15 service in St.Paul’s Cathedral. There was a congregation of about 300 persons—the majority city - men —under the dome. Canon Body, Missioner c»f Durham, was giving a course of Christian addresses. . . . . From St ""Paul’s we went to the new Law Court. At the entrance I was stopped by a policeman, who evidently took us for dynamiters, for seeing my All Saints’ bag in my hand, he said, * I must see inside that bag before yuu enter.’ 1 laughed, and opened it, and all there was to -be seen was a life-like diawing, by,/Mr Walsh, just received, of Mrs Cowie and myself on our horses in a gale of wiud and rain going over the Tara Hill.

: 1 “ March 15, (Thursday).—We began the day by. attending matins at Westminster Abbey at 10 a. m.. On entering the Abbey I was again challenged by a policeman to exhibit the contents of my All Saints’ bag. “ What,” I said, “would you pry into a bishop’s robe bag ?” This evidently only made matters worse, for the man at once looked at niy legs, which were ungaitered as usual; but when a small Prayer Book was seen to be the only contents of the bag, he smiled and said respectfully, ‘ We cannot make any difference, my Lord.’ It was a bright warm morning. Wo sat at the intersection of the chancel and the transepts, facing the beautiful sacred windows in-

Betted to tiio memory. of two gallant Voung rrflemen, whom 1 was with after they received tneir mortal wounds.on the field of battle odtside Lucknow in March, 1358 —Captain Thynne dud Lieutenant these and other interesting details of the Bishop’s experiences in the Old Gouhtry are given in the June number of the Church Gazette, which has just been published. The Bishop’s London address is New University Club, St. Jamesstreot, Ball Mall.—Auckland Star.