ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9306, 5 August 1908, Page 4

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

» . . . . PERSONAL AND GENERAL. [F&oat Our Correspondk.vt.J LONDON, June 26. My efforts to get the bishop of Auckland to say something in repiy to his clitics on the subject of secular education in New Zealand have not been successful. He told mo to-day that none of the letters and articles which ho had seen in the New Zealand Press seemed to him to call for a rer . ply; but in any case he had made a rule on becoming a Bishop that he would not be interviewed, and he did not intend to break, that rule. "The time will come," he said, " when it will be necessary to nail lies to the counter, and I will nail them. But I will choose my own way of doing it." Bishop Neli- ! gan went on to speak with the utmost enthusiasm of- the great Pan-Anglican Congress. It had been an amazing achievement, he said. No man could estimate its Vonderful influence. It was the greatest event of its kind in the history of Christendom — in fact, a miracle. It was immeasurably greater and finer than anyone could have conceived. The result of five years' work . and prayer had surpassed in an overwhelming degree the most sanguine dreams of those who planned the great -assemblage. The one great note of the . Congress bad been the note of penitence and humiliation for the work left undone in the past, for the golden opportunities that had been let Blip. And therefore he was glad that the thank- | offering of the Anglican Communion had been relatively small — only one--1 third of a million sterling. If it had I been large, if it had been, say, a couple of millions, there would have been the danger of vainglory, and the temptation to feel pleased and self-satisfied. j What the Church needed was the stimulus of penitence and humiliation, ; and he was supremely thankful to find ! that that was the note which had been sounded. The Rev H. Steele Craik, the-new-minister of Beresford Street Congregational Church, Auckland, read a paper at the Inter-colonial Congregational Conference in London on June 24. He gave a vivid description of work on the goldfields of Western Australia, where he worked for some years before coming to England. The conditions of life on the goldfielda, said Sir Craik, are . rough and comfortless; with plenty of spare time, the miner craves for excitement. The publichouse-keeperfl have seized their opportunity, and j many promising lives are ruined by the j environment. Sunday is given over to sport, and from 10,000 to 15,000 men are often seen at a Sunday football or cricket match. The children have very : j little chance of growing up in the fear ■ and reverence of the Lord. With gambling and social evil prevalent the goldfields problem is a terrible one. The Christian workers face a community ; with onfy a dry welcome for them, and their advent is almost regarded as an intrusion. Sunday services and weeknight prayer meetings are not the methods. The missionary must win by the social touch, by his sympathy. Only a practical humanised religion will touch these men. Mr Craik, however, spoke quite hopefully of. the future usefulness of the work, thougb he dwelt on the hardship and discouragements of the missionary's lot. He pleaded that these colonial outposts should be manned by the best types of ministers. The ideal church for the goldfields was the institutional church. The Rev J. Wilkins, late of Auckland, also read a paper at the Conference on special difficulties connected with religious life and work in the colonies. It is to the pulpit in Auckland recently vacated by Mr Wilkins that Mr Craik is going. Miss Amber Reeves, da 11 "liter of tlie High Ccmmissionei for New Zealand, who was bracketed first in Part 11. of the Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge, has added another success to this bdl- ■ liant achievement "by gaining the Marian Kennedy research scholarship at the London School of Economics. The scholarship is worth £40 a year, and is tenable for, two years. Miss Reeves will live in London, and devote herself to the study of economics. Mr J. B/ Clarkson, of Christchurch and Palmerston North, is leaving by th© e.s. Mongolian from Marseilles on July 10 for, his native land, "God's Own Country," as he calls it.. Ho: has had a very satisfactory time from. a, business point of view and a very . busy one, with plenty of pleasure mixed in. The English people have been, as usual, very entertaining, and the country h as i looked its very best. Mr Clarkeon has motored nearly 2000 miles,, and has travelled orer 3000 miles by train since arriving here. He leaves to-day for Amsterdam, and will ac motoring in Holland and Belgium ror the week-end, returning here about aext Tuesday, and will then go up to Birmingham and Coventry to finish np his business. He will leave hero finally on Monday, July 6, for Dieppe, mcl there he .hopes to witness the -rand Prix Motor Race After that ne will travel on to Marseilles. M »»Q. Roberta and Miss E Muff> lr U "' lstchur ch, who arrived here on ? ay ?T' after a fortnight on ihe_ Continent, are making London ;heir headquarters during their stay in die Old Country- They have made )xcui' S ion« into Northamptonshire and Wanrickslure, including a visit to >tratiord-on-Avon, and they propose to jravel in Scotland, Ireland" and Wales. Uiey will leavs for New Zealand on September 5 by the Vancouver route, irrivmg home early in November. Miss • .iooerts declares that of all the places Jie has yet seen she thinks Switzerand the most beautiful Mr A. F. Scott, of Christohurch, who )a« been m .Egypt ior the past year on Higuieenng work on the light railways, ws returned to England to take unto u .™ 6cll ,a "if© at Norwich, where lie nil wed Miss Scott, of that city. After " ;he marriage Mr and Mrs Scott pur- : t >ose going to Canada. " Mr T. 0. Alexander, of Christchurch, v •A. •' Zealand eighteen months as;o, . vith the object of studying building t xmatruction, and after staying in Syd- I ley for about two months, proceeded ti *> ban Francisco, b.v way of Victoria, i.U. Jrlis stay in San Francisco was n nest successful, and after sixteen t ] nonths he decided to push on for Long lon, where he is expecting to meet his jy •rother, who left New Zealand in May v \ •11 the steamer Surrey. Mr Alexander tl ntends to return to New Zealand come a; hue in Noveniber by the Suez route. a i Mr and Mrs Henry W. Piper, of E Canterbury, who are on a pleasure trip, « rrived at Liverpool on June 9 per Aauritama, after spending a month -etween Vancouv&r and New. York, takng St Paul, Chicago, Niagara, Monreal, etc., en route. On landing they .rst spent a week with friends in Lanashi're, and arrived in LondoD on Juno 6. Alter giving- four or live w.eeks to 1 (Ondon eight-seeing, they intend visit- '

rig other parts =of England, Scotland nd Ireland. They will piobably leave England about the middle ot October, nd spend a fortnight on the Continent, icking up their steamer at. Naples, ml returning home via Suez and Ausralia. Mr and Mrs A. Hunt and sen, of Ihristchurch, are taking, a pleasure rip round the world. They travelled Lome by the P. and 0. -Company's Jongolia, arriving on June 6 after a cry pleasant trip. They have enjoyed heir short stay in London very much, nd intend returning for a few days fter visiting Scotland, Glasgow aiij Idinburgh. They will then go through

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