THE NEW BISHOP OF WELLINGTON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10267, 26 January 1895, Page 6

THE NEW BISHOP OF WELLINGTON.

(Fhb United Pbbss Association.)

Wbllincton, January 25,

The consecration of Dr Wallis, the new Bishop of Wellington, took place this morning at St. Paul's Church. Admission was by ticket only, yet the building was crowded. A choir picked from the three principal Anglican churches executed the choral portion of the service. At 10.30 a procession of bishops and clergy numbering 59 entered the church. The former included the Bishops of Salisbury, Auckland, Waiapn, Christchurch, Nelson, Dunedin, and Melanesia. Among the latter were a 'number of Native clergy. Bishop Julius conducted the communion service, and the Bishop ef Salisbury preached. His discourse was principally devoted to sketching the Christian ideal of a leader of the church, with references to the apostles and especially to St. Paul. His Lordship warned his hearers and the candidate that the besetting sin of the Anglo-Saxon race was devotion to material comforts. la New Zealand he feared, owing to its isolation and the favourable conditions of life, that propensity was likely to be accentuated rather than diminished. The new bishop therefore must hay* something of the Christian warrior in him, and be prepared to combat this tendency. He concluded by commending Dr Wallis to their prayers, Saying that from what he knew of him personally he believed that he would worthily fill the post to which he had been chosen. An anthem was sung whilst Dr Wallis put on his rochet,, and he was then presented to the acting primate, the authority for the consecration being read by Mr Quick, chancellor of the diocese. The ceremony thereafter followed the ritual prescribed for such occasions, with full choral effects, the final act being the laying on of hands by all the bishops present. The service lasted till 1 o'clock.

The installation service was held at St. Paul's Pro-cathedral to-night, when the new bishop preached the sermon, in the course of which he urged that a, commemoration service in remembrance of those who had rendered such valuable services in the past in New Zealand should be held each year on St. Paul's Day. The church was crowded to excess, and the congregation included all the bishops and most of the clergy present at the consecration service in the morning.

The newly consecrated bishop is to be accorded a public welcome at a social gathering in the drillshed to-morrow evening, when the Bishops of Wellington, Salisbury, Auckland, Danedin, Christchnrch, and Melanesia, and otter prelates will deliver addresses.