ANGLICAN SYNOD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6295, 16 February 1892, Page 2

ANGLICAN SYNOD.

i Welusctos, last niyht.— At the Anglican r Synod this afternoon the committee who had i considered the working of the Marriago Act : presented their report, in which theyrecomL mended the adoption of the following resolutions :—" That in the opinion of this , Synod it is desirable that the Marriage Aco ■ of 1880 be so amended as to provide inter alia [ that a period of fourteen days shall interi vene between the date of notice of intention [ to marry aud the issue of the registrar's certificate ; that persons giv?"g notice shall be required to state their full names and the addresses of their parents or legal guardians resident in New Zealand, of each of the parties to the intended marriage ; that it is , of the highest importance for the protection of society that greater publicity should be given of* the intention to marry, and that Kiich publicity may be given by requiring— (a) That the registrar shall post a copy of • the notice of application for a certificate to the parents or guardians of the parties intendhrj to marry ; (b) That he shall aflix a • second copy of the same to some partof his , oflice accessible to the public ; (c) That in the event of these amendment or any of the .1, bein<j approved by the Synod they be entrusted to the charge of a member of the Legislature with a view to his bringing ' them under the notice of the Government. ! The report of the Committee of Home aud Foreign Missions showed that the Melaneaian Mission account was overdraw a, the [ cost (LIO.OCD) of outfit and despatch of the i new ship which is due i-i Auckland at the end of this month hay lg absorbed the greater part of the English contributions. The follow" lg resolution was carried on ' the voices, "That m the opinion oi this 1 Synod it is desirable that candidates for holy orders in this ecclesiastical province 1 should possess some knowledge of the pr" iciples of public reading and speaking and of the art of vocal music in order that the minister's part in div.' ne ser \ Ice may be more adequately rendered than is now frrquently the cose." At the Synod to-day the Committee on i-eports of Tustees siated that they had considered the motion of Archdeacon Samuel Williams, dated February 12th, and they recommended the following resolution for adoption by the general Synod, " That the trustees of the Te Aute school estate are authorised to apply to the Legislature for an Act to enable them to expend a portion of the funds derived from the Native grant of land to the Te Aute school upon a Native girls school at Hukarere, Napier, on condition that the latter school be conveyed to the trustees of the Te Aute school estate to be held upon trust as a sue for a school for Native girls." To-day. — A long and interesting debate took place in the Synod last night on Sir John Hall's motion for the second reading of a Bill to amend the canons in order to give women the ri<'ht of voting at parish meetings. The Bill was introduced some days aeo by the Bishop of Waiapu, but on his being called away by the serious illness of his daughter, Si* 1 Joha Hall took charge of the measure. The Synod chamber was crowded throughout the evening. The Dean of Christchurch said he would move in Committee an addition to the Bill providing that before coming into operation it should be submitted to the dioceian Synods and come up again at the next session of the general Synod. The Primate vehemently opposed the Bill, saying that if the Synod were to carry the second reading or let the measure go into CommiUee he would leave the chair and protest before the whole Church. He would not be a member of that Church which made itself ridiculous in the face of Christendom by acting counter to what had been a tradition of the conduct of the Church from the beginning up to the present time. The debate was interrupted by the 10.30 adjournment. There are only 47! foreign n'eicliH'itß in China, and the whole number of foreign residents will only reach 7,90.3. Of the merchants 200 are English, 27 are Auierir. cans, 72 are Germans," and 20 are French^ Of the population, 3,276^>re English, 1,161 are Americans, s»tt arlfGermans, and 557. are French. There are also 26, mercantile^ establishments owned by Japanese, and? I there are 734 subjects of -the Mikado residino v the Empire.