A CLERICAL SCANDAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13663, 30 March 1908, Page 5

A CLERICAL SCANDAL.

CHARGES AGAINST CANON NASH.

UPHELD BY ARCHBISHOP CLARKE.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received March 30, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON,. March 29. Archbishop . Clarke, of Melbourne, claims thatJie has obtained evidence of serious misconduct which he considers justifies him in maintaining his refusal to grant Canon Nash a license for Christ Church, Geelong. Replying to an interviewer, the Archbishop said that, as^Geelong was the diocesan educational centre, it became specially necessary that the incumbent of Christ Church should be a man of robust moral strength.

[An effort has. recently been made to prove Canon Nash innocent. Mr J. S. Faulkner, of Geelong, was sent to England by sympatniserj3 to investigate the charges of misconduct. He states that he has not been a,ble tp find a trace of anything to justify a charge of any kind against Mr Nash. Dr. Moule, Bishop of Durham, has informed ' Mr Faulkner that he cannot recall the soiu-ce of his statement to the Archbishop of Sydney in regard to misconduct on the part of Mr Nash,. He accepted the writer's bona fides -at the time, but ,must novr< consider the statement as" based on rumour. , Mr Faulkner has not seen Canon Barflsley,' who was vicar at" Huddersfield when Mr Nash was curate thefe. Canon Bardsley has given other details of great gravity respecting an incident .which happened in his (Bardsley's) family. *This incident, Mr' Bardsley states, led to Nash's expulsion from tho Vicarage and to his (Bardsley's) intervention to prevent Mr Nash's promotionl]