BISHOP JENNER'S INTENTIONS

Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 535, 18 February 1869, Page 2

BISHOP JENNER'S INTENTIONS

Dr Jehner has addressed a letter to the - Otago Daily Times, in which he says "that it is altogether a mistake to suppose that I have come to Dunedin with an idea of forcing myself on the Diocese as its Bishop. If it appears that the feelings of the Church in jhese provinces against me, is really what is represented to be my opponents, all I can say is, that nothing will be easier than to get rid of me. But it is due to myself as well as to my numerous friends here, whose most kind and cordial welcome will never fade from my remembrance wherever the rest of my life may be passed—not too hastily to the demands of those who are urging my immediate resignation of all pretentions to the new See. Allow me, in conclusion, to inform or remind, your correspondents, that I am not here as Bishop of Dunedin. I have not assumed that title since I landed in New Zoaland. It has, I may also observe, been my fixed intention, ever since my arrival, not to officiate in any church in the colony until my position should be more clearly defined than it has been since the decision of the General Synod. By my signature below I simply claim the title assigned to me by the Royal Mandate under which I was consecrated.—l am &c, Henry Lascelles Jenner, Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland, in the Colony of New Zealand."

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