News Items.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 24, 2 June 1919, Page 195

News Items.

A considerable amount of disappointment has been ' experienced m England at the decision of the Graves Commission not to erect crosses as headstones for the graves of the fallen iri France and elsewhere. A largely signed petition has been presented to therii for permission to relatives to erect crosses at their ' own expense over the graves of their loved' ones. "Many of us," \*says Lady Cecil, "cling to the cross, as the symbol of our faith which best befits the memory of those who have fought and died m a crusade . against -cruelty and oppression*"

A 'district m the Dunedin Diocese m its annual report states ' that its finances are m a "fairly healthy condition"; it has. paid its Vicar £120 m -stipend (£37 of which was a ,grant from the Diocesan funds!) and has given him £20 "towards the purchase of a motor car'"'!.! Comment needless. •■■-.•• As illsutrating the disadvantages of ".the "Establishment" of the Church m England the : '' Church Times" points out that the patronage of the Crown is now exercised by Mr Lloyd GeoTßge,' a Welsh Baptist, Avho, m .loyalty to the Coalition, may pei*haps_ admit to consultation Mr Bonar Law, a Scottish Presbyterian. Lord Birkenhead dispenses - the ecclesiastical patron age x of the Lord . Chancellor, being himself a 'Nonconformist. Certain high posts m the Indian Church are at the disposal of Mr Mpritagu, a Jew, who with *a fine sense of the fitting has asked Mr Balfour, ia Scottish Presbyterian, to act for him m the matter.