THE BISHOP OF AUCKLAND AND MRS NELIGAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 12 August 1908, Page 3

THE BISHOP OF AUCKLAND AND MRS NELIGAN.

AND OTHER NEW ZEALANDERS AT THK PAN-ANGLICAN CO.NFEEEiV<jE.

(From Our Own Correseondont.)

Juno 23th, 1908

The Bishop was in tho chair at the morning mt-eiing at fciion College, when tho subject was "Tho preparation of the young )or porsonal borvico." The speakers were tno Vicar of Arnley, Leed3 and Chaplain to tho Public Schools Brigade, tiio Headmaster or Clifton (_olloge, the Assistant Master and Tutor at Eton College, the Roy. E.C. West, of .Urahamstown, South Africa,' the Headmaster of Eton College, the Vicar of St. Mary's, Redcliffe, Bristol; Miss H. L. ■ Powell, principal of-the Cambridgo Training College; the Rev. A. Carr, Mrs Wordsworth, the wife of the Bishop of Salisbury, Canon Simpson, of Canada, and several others.

At section C, '-The union of men's Jsoiceties and brotherhoods in the Anglican Communion," tho Bishop said that ho thought that in the C.E.M.S. and St Andrew's Brotherhood there was a starting point for a larger union, and tho wearing of cither of those badges would mean an outward and visible sign of a man who was consciously and openly pledged to bo on the side of Christ and an unfailing key of admission into the Christian, brotherhood and fellowship of man in all parts of tho world, tie suggested that the Congress should ask the chairman of tho Church of England Men's Society, the Bishop of Stepney, to tour next* year, if not throughout tho whole Anglican Communion, at least through the Empire, on a kind of men's mission, assuring him of a hearty welcome wherever ho might go.

Mrs Noligan, the wife of the Bishop, spoke at section E, (lTho Church's responsibility towards the Aborigines." She eulogised the Maori race as capable of tho highest culture and civilisation. After only sixty or seventy years of civilisation they were able to take their part in tho Ministry, the Government, and «-professibnal life... They possessed i\ delightful senso of humour, and a wonderful poetb nature, and were religiously minded.' Indeed,- they might call them "Irishmen with brown faces," being in a true sense very similar in character to the Irish. They had the same characteristics, both as to their virtues and their faults. The great aim should be to keep tho white man Christian in that country.

The Bishop of Waiapu, at the "same meoting. dealt with the relative positions of -European and Maori populations, and mentioned that the Maori clergy took their places en the Synods just as the European clergy did. At the morning meeting at the Albert Hall, section A. "The drink traffic," the Roy. H. W. Anson, of Auckland, spoke of the remarkable progress of the "No-license movement in tho Dominion. Every three years 3 every elector . had the opportunity at each Parliamentary election, of recording his or her vote as to whether licenses in the particular Parliamentary district should be retained, reduced, or abolished. The growth of the vote for Nolicense had boen most remarkabl&, showing an increase of over 100,000* votes .out of a total of less than 400,000. In thirty-iiino out of sixty-eight constituencies a bare majority had been obtained., but a three-fifths one was required before tho existing system could be overthrown. The speaker believed that even in England there might bo a futuro for No-license.

Mr Studholme, of ChTistchurch, also took part in the discussion.