ANGLICAN SYNOD.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7707, 15 February 1886, Page 2

ANGLICAN SYNOD.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, February 13.

In the Synod, the Primate requested the Bishop of Nelson to visit the Pacific Islands if the Bishop of Newcastle could not. The recommendations of the Committor on Cathedral bodies are to be printed for the consideration of the next Synod. Provision has been made for the resignation of bishops wishing to retire. A committee has been appointed to consider the advisablenesa of trying to influence public opinion on the question of religious education by sermons, lectures, and pamphlets. The Synod recommends the dioceses to consider again the pension scheme. After three nights' close debate the Hynod agreed to the return of the students of St John's College to the old site at Taranaki as soon as the funds are provided.

At the general Synod yesterday the Sessional Committee on the Reports of Trustees reported as follows on the application received from the parish of All Saint’s, Dunedin “ Resolved, as the land that the General Synod ia asked to transfer to trustees to hold as a site for a cathedral ia by trust deed held for a church site uutil it shall no longer be required for the purpose aforesaid, and as the Committee have before them no sufficient proof that the said laud is ‘ no longer required for the said purpose,’ they are not able to recommend the Syuod to authorise the trustees to make the transfer that ia desired.” Bishop Nevill has given notice of motion for Monday for the addition ot the following words : “ But they are of opinion that, if the parishioners and the Diocesan Synod wish to use the existing building for the purposes of a cathedral, the terms of the trust deed offer no obstacle in law to their doing so.”