THE NELSON BISHOPRIC.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13410, 7 May 1912, Page 4

THE NELSON BISHOPRIC.

A MUNIFICENT DONATION

OF £6,000 CONDITIONALLY.

With tho object of raising the incomel of the episcopate of Nelson to an amount adequate for the office and position, some representative churchmen, a few wooks ago formed a committee- to make inquiries into ways and means. The committee have received the gratifying intelligence that a donor (who for ' the time being desires to bo anonymous) is prepared to donate no loss n, sum than six thousand pounds (£0,000) to the fund, provided that an additional sum of £2,000 is forthcoming from other sources, it being essential that £8,000----shall be provided to enable the income-, to be raised to £1,000 per annum. It is the earnest desire, of those who aro actively associated with the movement that the necessary amount shall be raised before the Bishop-elect comes to Nolson. That there are good grounds for the hopci that this, wis% will be consummated if should-be mentioned thatMr James Marsden. of Stoke, has promised £500 to tliG'fußd; provided that fiv<? other gifts of £H)0 each are forthcoming, and Mrs. Hunter-Brown offers to donate £300 after the sum of £1,000 has been raised. In addition, Mr. Thog. Cawthron has donated £200 unconditionally. There is thus £1,000 of tho £2,000 required in sight, and with such a splendid lead, it is anticipated that the churchmen of tl^3 Diocese will rise: to the occasion and hy thwr response crown the munificent initial offer with the success that should rightly attach, thereto.

The donor of the £6,000 wishes to associate the names of two relatives with the gift, and the fund will be designate*}; "The —— .Memorial Bishopric Endowment Fund." ' v Tho committee referred to consists of the Yen. Archdeacons Grace, York, Baker (chairman), Revs. J. P. Kemp--thorno, W. S. Lucas, Dr. W. J. Mackay,. Messrs. J. S. Rutherfurd, A. T. Magm--nity, and F. H. Richmond (secretary).