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Colonist, Volume XXXII, Issue 5501, 23 May 1889, Page 3

T« tht] Editor of the Colonist.

Sib, —I observe that in an address to Archbishop Eedwood he is styled " Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of Now Zealand." To avoid confusion in the minds of many it ehould have been " Roman Catholic Arohbiahop." New Zealand is a Crown Colony, end I am not awara that Queen Victoria baa appointed any ecclesiastic to be Mefcropoliiaa of the Colony. But it would appear that Borne unauthorised individual has taken upon himself to turn the Crown Colony of New Zealand into a Popish Ecclesiastical Province. This is Eome all over —creeping on, assuming illegal titles and positiens, and leaving the community to suppose that it is all right. If the individual 'who has taken this liberty ba tba Pops, lat us remember ths statement in ona of the Articles of the Church of England: 'The Bishop of Borne hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England" That was penned by men who had an intimate and p&inful acquaintance with all the machinations of the Popedom. Wa may depend upon it, that men who suffered at the stake ratker th&a abandon their opposition to the falsa dogma of tranjmbstantiation, were in earnest. Let us, their descendants, tread in their footsteps, and bear uncompromising testimony against at syetem struggling hard to regaia its temporal power—a powar that would deprive man of his liberty of conscience, if a Briton bring his loyalty to Queen Victoria into subjeation to tbe Pope of Borne —and bring him under a yoke which men of God is & bygone generation were unable to bear. Yours, &0., A Stobdt Puoxbstant. Nelson, May 20.