CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS BAZAAR.

Southland Times, Issue 3297, 14 January 1879, Page 3

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS BAZAAR.

■; : ixye a-x ,;./. 'yi'YY^'-y'Y y;'^/ -Y f 'Yx. A meeting of/ joiht- committees of /the Hospital and Benevolent; -Institution' took place yesterday afternoon . at the offices' 6f ihe "y secretary, Mr Eliott, for ihe cpnsiderafiori of a communication from the Rev. W. P. Tanner., The following report of the .proceedings has • be'en communicated; to rusV ; ThkVrbv. gentlcj_an in his letter said :— ' '■ After I haid written to your committee Vwith a'/reqhesfc that you ■ y; should not* set up ; one ; charitable object- as opposing another in an- appeal to the public, I was very sorry : to receive an answer to the y .'effect that ■asV.vouhad planned a Bazaar you //intended to /carry it out. I cannot accept /:■'-'■ V-'tbis as a sufficient answer, and I should.be • 'much obliged/if you ; would. explain -to your ;. committee thai it would; not be honorable; to V endeavor to force one Bazaar' aside /for the i/Vsake of another. Arrangements were made ;-C.i VfoiVpur Bazaar, and the announcement adver■iy tised in total ignorance; of yoiir designs. ■-.-•.: which have not even yet been published, and under these circumstances I think it very y objectionable -that/ you should endeavor to . /obtain irootns that we have engaged, that you -V. should seek for help tha,t has been already yV promised; to us, and ; that you - should in vitcV members of other communions to engage in ah undertaking which has features of- antagonism, though it carries the term of bene- ; volehce. The members of the Chni-ch. of / England on your; committee cannot be supposed to givejpref erence to their own interests.. , : - It/is from the members of other churches thai must expect, courteous treatment. .The position is pecuiiai.y I should at. once:.' say. that it is the most disagreeable and unjust ." transaction that I have observed in luvercargUl, were it not that I am well aware how ••'• many mistake may be accounted for by ignorance. I wish to be very clear in ex-., 'pressing my opinion without" saying anything unnecessarily unpleasant. Ido not wish to aUpw the members of the, Church of England '• -."'"' 'ito be placed in* "the disgraceful position, of contending for their interest?; or rather for the interests of public worship, before a wonder- ""• ' ing pubhc, but I find it to be my duty to be careful in this young community not to give license to what appears to me to be incivility and rudenes^on account of the unpleasantness of checking it. VThe. benevolence of pur citizens. wiU not be lessened, and the wants of the poor wUf not be neglected; by our fol- / lowing the common rrules of ; courteous behavior." . : - - V '■:.- In the /course of : the discussion which ■ensued, a general regret was expressed that y Mr Tanner, contemplated :.a bazaar, whUe : Vy several of; those;; present VcpncWved -in tbe ii opinion that if -the/usual course: of obtaining the sanction of the vestrymen had been followed," another da:e would have been fixed for the Church Bazaar, as they were cognisant of its having been decided by the joint committees to hold. their bazaar at Easter. : Ttwas ultimately decided by the meeting hot to alterV the/ ; date, and it was, decided^ -that . the following, .reply should be' sent to MiTanner by the bon. secretaries; Messrs W. M. EUott, and J. Evans:-"The committee for ca,rrying out the bazaar for the Hospital and •Benevolent Society have considered your A. letter (of 9thinst.) to Mr WiUbughby, and'we are instructed to reply that the contemplated bazaar has been 'considered for nearly twelve months, and the Easter season was decided uponfor holding "it. :The time proposed has been long before the public, with the intention, bf preventing any: confliction of interest, and under these circunisfahces, without wishing to enter upon the general question, the committee do not consider it would-be proper: to alter, the date, and very respectfuUy decUne to do so." '•"''", -VV; '.-',-/.-.'; It "wa_ also resolved that the joint committees should meet the ladies, at the 'AthenEeumj- at three o'clock oh Wednesday afternoon. ' './. ' v . - -'.--'