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Otago Witness, Issue 39, 14 February 1852, Page 1

Ex, "COLUMBUS," ONE CASE of | Prints, fast colours. 1 do. of five-fourths Hoyles' do. 1 do. of Shirting Calicoes. 1 Bale of Grey Sheeting. Corduroy, Moleskin, Silk Parasols, Carpenters' Adzes, Flat Irons, Rosewood Work-boxes, Men's Braces, Fancy Muslin Dresses, Hosiery, Bed Ticking, Pilot Coats, Cloth Coats, Trowsers and Vests, Guernsey Shirts— Blue, White, and Scarlet; Superfine Broad Cloths, Pilot Cloth, Flannel, Black Alpaca, Orleans, Blankets and Rugs in variety; Binding Galloons, Needles, Hooks and Eyes, Reel Cotton, Satteen Jeans, White Twill'd Dimity, Furniture Print, Saucepans, Hair Brooms, American Axes, Patent Nails, common Cut Shingle Nails, Rim Locks, Washing Soda, Valencia Raisins, ty lt> by the box 6d., Muscatels 9d. Almanacs for 1852. At JAMES MAYO'S. High Street. AN APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE FUND FOR BUILDING AN EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SCHOOL, AND PARSONAGE, IN DUNEDIN, OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. npHE Committee appointed to collect and X employ this Fund beg respectfully to in. vite the attention of their Friends and Fellow Churchmen in England and elsewhere to the j following facts : — j The European Members of the Church of! England in the Otago district already amount to 420 ; in addition to whom some of the Maories would gladly attend the Episcopal j Church, arid send their children to its School. There are also in the Settlement many persons of other denominations who wish to join the Episcopal Congregation ; and some, professedly of no religion at all, who might be persuaded to remember that they have souls, and to be- j come worshippers in the house of God. For a period of nearly four years there was no English clergyman in the colony. But from the beginning of this year the Rev. J. A. Fenton, M.A., late Curate of Norton, near Sheffield, having been licensed by the Bishop of New Zealand to the incumbency of the Episj copal Church of Dunedin, has conducted Divine Service in the Court-house. The Members of the Church of England in Otago have subscribed liberally, considering their means, for the maintenance of the Insumbent ; and have now appealed to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to make a yearly grant to raise that stipend to a pro- I per amount. They are also most anxious to build a Church, School, and Parsonage, the cost ( of which, erected in a plain but substantial manner, would be about £1300. In furtherance of the first of these objects one of their i body, Frederick Richardson, Esq., late of Cheltenham, collected from his Friends, chiefly in that town and neighbourhood, £272 13s. 6d., together with a Font, the gift of A. B. Hope, Esq., M.P. ; Communion Plate, the gift of A. F. Mierville, Esq. ; and a small Organ, in part the gift of George Freeman, Esq. Of this sum £144 os. Bd. have been expended in buying and bringing out from England windows, doors, nails, stove, spouting, &c. The Bishop of New Zealand has kindly promised to visit Otago before the end of the year, and hasalso offered to bring with him a suitable plan for a Church, and a quantity of timber free of freight. A large Bible and Prayer-book have been presented by the Rev. W. R. Thomas, for the use 1 of the officiating minister of the proposed Church. The Committee are now busily collecting in Otago subscriptions for the Building, Fund. But when they consider that most of their fellow Churchmen are recent emigrants, yet struggling with the first difficulties of their position, contributing already to the utmost of their power to the maintenance of their Pastor, and called upon to fence in their Cemetery and' prepare it for burials, they cannot hope to raise amongst themselves more than £200. They are therefore constrained' to turnt6 England, and to ask. the aid' of the' Venerable So*' ciety for Promoting'Chr^lstian Knowledge, and