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 BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND, 
 
 ^oci'etg for ti^e propagation of i\)t €rOSpd, 
 
 OTIIER TNPORMATION CONCERNING HIS DIOCESE. 
 
 NEW ZEALAND CHURCH COMMITTEE: 
 The Standing Committee of the Society for me Propagation of the GosPEt> 
 
 The Earl of Devon. 
 
 The Lord Ltttelton. 
 
 The Lord Courtenay, M.P. 
 
 The Lord Ashley, M.P. 
 
 The Lord Sandon, M.P. 
 
 The Hon. Francis Baring. 
 
 Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Bt. M.P. 
 
 Alderman Thompson, M.P. 
 
 John Abel Smith, Esq. 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Hinds, D.D. 
 
 The Rev. Wm. Selwtn, Canon of Ely. 
 
 Charles J. Selwyn, Ess. 
 
 The Rev. Stephen Hawtrev. 
 
 The Rev. George H. Bowers. 
 
 The Rev. J. G. Brett. 
 
 Robert Few, Esq. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 RIVINGTONS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD & WATERLOO-PLACE; 
 1'ICCA.DILLY; BURNS, PORTMAN-STREET. 
 
 1843. 
 
 HATCHARDS.
 
 LONDON : 
 PRINTED BY R. CLAY, BREAD STREET HILL.
 
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 LETTERS 
 
 THE BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND. 
 
 My dear Sir, Auckland, July 29, 1842. 
 
 You will have already heard from other quarters of my arrival iii 
 New Zealand ; but I have hitherto delayed writing any official letters, 
 that I might have time to verify my first impressions by more extended 
 observation. I have now been two months in New Zealand, and from 
 the first day of my landing until now, have seen, day after day, more 
 and more reason to be thankful, on the part of the Church, for the 
 establishment of the Bishopric of this colony, and for myself, that I am 
 allowed to share in so great and hopeful a work. I find myself 
 placed in a position such as was never granted to any English Bishop 
 before, with a power to mould the institutions of the Church from the 
 beginning according to true principles; and I earnestly desire the 
 prayers of the Church at home, that I may be enabled clearly to 
 discern that truth, and consistently to follow it. 
 
 I landed first at Auckland, on Monday, May 30, from the brig 
 Bristolian, in which I had proceeded from Sydney, in consequence of 
 an accident to the Tomatin at Sydney, which caused a delay of several 
 weeks before that ship could be repaired. Auckland now contains a 
 population of 1,900 persons, of whom more than 1,100 are registered 
 as members of the Church of England. The Rev, J. F. Churton, late 
 Chaplain at Wellington, has officiated here during the last year and a 
 half. A brick church, in the early English style, which will contain 
 about six hundred persons, is in progress ; but from the great cost of 
 materials and labour, the funds are at present inadequate for its com- 
 pletion. It is well placed on a commanding eminence in the centre 
 of the town, and will form a striking object from the iiarbour. At 
 present Divine Service is performed, by permission of the (iovernor, in
 
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 the court-house ; where a very respectable congregation is assembled 
 every Sunday. Mr. Churton also performs Divine Service at the 
 barracks, and at the prison. He receives 200/. per annum from the 
 Government, to which I have added lOOZ. per annum from the annual 
 grant voted to me by the Society for stipends of clergymen. He has 
 built a house for himself on an allotment which he purchased for that 
 purpose. 
 
 The Governor, on my application, has vested in me as trustee two 
 pieces of ground of eight acres each, " for the burial of the dead, 
 " according to the usage of the Church of England," allotting, at the 
 same time, two similar plots to be divided among the other denomi- 
 nations of Christians. Our burial-grounds are about half a mile from 
 the centre of the town, on the sides of two of the ridges which slope 
 down gradually to the harbour, and conveniently situated at corre- 
 sponding distances from the two churches. The first ground was 
 consecrated on Sunday last, on which occasion I was assisted by the 
 Rev. J. F. Churton, Rev. R. Cole, (whom I propose to place at 
 Wellington,) and Rev. R. Maunsell (one of the Missionaries of the 
 Church Missionary Society.) Divine Service was performed in the 
 church-tent presented to me by Mr. Cotton, which is completely fitted 
 with communion-table and desks, and will contain three hundred 
 persons. This will be of great use to me at Nelson and Wellington, 
 where there are at present no places appropriated to public worship. 
 In the event of the population of Auckland rapidly increasing, this 
 burial-ground will form a beautiful site for another church. In the 
 meantime I intend to avail myself of the natural beauties of the spot 
 to give it such a character as will accord with the reverential 
 feelings with which it will be visited by the friends and relatives of the 
 dead who are there interred. 
 
 The church now in progress is called the church of St. Paul ; on 
 the central one of the three ridges on which the town will stand. I 
 have obtained another excellent site on the western ridge, on which 
 I intend, as soon as possible, to build a wooden chapel, and to lay the 
 foundations of a church on a grand scale, to be proceeded with 
 gradually as funds can be obtained. On the third, i. e. the eastern 
 ridge, nearest to the mouth of the harbour, and on a high ground com- 
 manding a view of the whole frith of the Thames, I have given 
 directions for the purchase of twenty or thirty acres of land for a site 
 for the cathedral, and for a cathedral close. By this arrangement I may 
 hope to secure a future provision for every possible increase of popu- 
 latioUj as sites will be prepared for three churches in the main parts
 
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 of the town ; and when the houses extend half a mile into the country, 
 the two burial grounds will meet the wants of the people, by additions 
 to the chapels which I intend to build upon them for the funeral 
 services. 
 
 I have obtained permission to select and purchase sites for parsonage- 
 houses, contiguous to the churches and burial-grounds, which I shall 
 endeavour to let upon building lease;=, reserving one central piece of 
 ground sufficient for the residence of all the clergy of the town, who 
 may find it more desirable for some years to come to live upon a 
 collegiate plan, than to incur the expense of so many separate 
 establishments. 
 
 Any money that I may be able to spare from Auckland itself, will 
 be required for the establishment, of the Church in some of the 
 suburban settlements, where villages are be<jinnin<x to be formed. 
 From one of these, Windsor, distant i'our miles from Auckland, I 
 have already received an Address expressive of the desire of the in- 
 habitants for a church and clergyman, and their willingness to 
 contribute. 
 
 I am now (July 29, 1842,) off the harbour of Auckland, in the go- 
 vernment brig Victoria, bound to Wellington and Nelson. On board 
 with me are Rev. R. Cole, for Wellington, Rev. C. L. Reay, Church 
 Missionary for the south-western district, and Mr. Evans, as my travel- 
 ling companion. Mr. Whytehead having been advised to pass the 
 winter at Sydney, I was obliged to leave Mr. Cotton with Mrs. Selwyn 
 at the Waimate. 
 
 At Wellington everything will have to be begun. There appears 
 to be neither school nor chapel connected with the Church, nor pro- 
 vision for either. Mr. Cole will, I think, prove well qualified for the 
 position for which he is designed. On board the Toniatin I appointed 
 him Chaplain to the intermediate and steerage passengers, to whom 
 his ministrations were most beneficial, and 1 was very thankful to see 
 nine out of the thirteen come to the Lord's table on Easter Sunday. 
 
 One of my first public acts has been the appointment of the Rev. W. 
 Williams to be Archdeacon of the Eastern District. In taking this 
 step, I have acted upon the strongest recommendation of the Bishop of 
 Australia, confirmed by personal intercourse with him at the Bay of 
 Islands. Archdeacon Williams is a man universally beloved, and one, 
 who, during twenty years of residence in a savage country, has lost 
 nothing of that high tone of feeling which distinguishes the best class 
 of English Clergymen. He will act aho as one of my examining 
 chaplains, especially for the native language; for I find the natives so
 
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 interspersed among the English that I must require every Clergyman 
 to make himself acquainted with their language. My excellent friend, 
 Mr. Wh\ tehead, will act as my other examining chaplain ; and never, 
 I am sure, was any Colonial Bishop better supplied with confidential 
 advisers. 
 
 The power which has been accorded to me of creating Archdeacons 
 is most necessary ; for the communication between the different parts 
 of this country is very uncertain. I have now been waiting three weeks 
 at Auckland for a passage to Wellington. The Bishop of Australia, at 
 Sydney, is in a better position for communicating with Wellington and 
 Nelson than I when I am at Auckland. New Plymouth is a perfect 
 "terra incognita." However, myplans are now so laid, that, God willing, 
 I hope to have seen every settlement, and every Clergyman and Cate- 
 chist in the country, before the end of the year. But to secure the 
 efficient administration of the Church in all parts of the diocese, each 
 great division of the country must have its responsible head, capable of 
 acting with authority without constant reference to me. I intend, 
 ultimately, to arrange the diocese into four archdeaconries for the 
 northern island, and one or more for the southern ; the first to include 
 the northern part of the north island, to the isthmus on which Auckland 
 is built. The centre of the island to be cut in two by a line running 
 north and south. The eastern portion now forms the archdeaconry of 
 Mr. Williams. The Company's territory, with the settlements of 
 Wellington and New Plymouth, will form the fourth archdeaconry ; and 
 a fifth must be located at Nelson, for the care of the northern part of 
 the middle island. 
 
 I have consented, in compliance with the urgent request of the 
 Ciovernor and most of the principal inhabitants of Auckland, including 
 many members of the Church Mission, to undertake the formation of 
 a school. The buildings for this purpose are already to be had at the 
 Wainiate, and my young Catecliists will, 1 hope, be useful assistants. 
 I have hopes of a married gentleman from England to take the 
 charge of the school ; but if this should fail, I must conduct it by the 
 assistance of my ciiaplains, till I can procure a head master. It will 
 be in connexion with a small collegiate institution for candidates for 
 Holy Orders, to be under the care of Mr. Whytehead, upon the plan 
 of King's College, London, and its tributary schools. 
 
 With my grateful remembrances to all my friends in the Committee, 
 and with earnest prayer for the success of your endeavours, 
 I am, yours most faithfully, 
 
 G. A. New Zkaland.
 
 BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND. 
 
 II. 
 
 My DEAR Sir, At Sea, oflFKapiti, November 3, 1842. 
 
 I HAVE now completed my first visit to the different English settle- 
 ments in New Zealand, Kororarika, Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, 
 and New Plymouth : other smaller settlements are springing up in 
 the following places; Whanganui, Petoni (Port Nicholson,) Hokianga, 
 Windsor (near Auckland.) 
 
 The population of these settlements is about as follows : — 
 
 Auckland 1800 
 
 Wellington 2500 
 
 Nelson (Blind Bay.) 2100 
 
 New Plymouth (Taranaki.) 900 
 
 Kororarika (Bay of Islands.) 300 
 
 Petoni (Port Nicholson.) 700 
 
 Whanganui (West Coast, South) 100 
 
 Hokianga (West Coast, North.) 100 
 
 Windsor (near Auckland.) 100 
 
 Total . . . 8600 
 
 From the nature of the country of New Zealand, the population is 
 likely to be divided into a number of villages; a distribution likely to 
 be favourable to morality, but adding to the difficulty of providing the 
 people with adequate pastoral superintendence. At the same time, 
 I find in all the settlements a very considerable willingness on the part 
 of the inhabitants to bear their part in the maintenance of ministers, 
 and hope, therefore, to be enabled, by the assistance of the Society, to 
 go on from year to year endowing the church in perpetuity in the new 
 settlements as fast as they arise. Of course, at first, the glebe lands 
 will yield little or nothing ; and I shall be obliged to divide the sum 
 which the Society may be enabled to allow me for annual salaries of 
 Clergymen among the ministers, who may be expected to increase in 
 number, and, therefore, must gradually become less and less dependent 
 upon the allowance of the Society. This diminution of their dividend 
 of the Society's grant, may be met by the increase of the Local Church 
 Fund, arising from the rental of lands, and the contributions of the 
 congregations. 
 
 In all the settlements where there is a bank, I have opened an 
 
 account, styled 
 
 Archdeaconry of Auckland 1 
 
 „ Wellington >■ Church Fund, 
 
 ,, Nelson j 
 
 to receive private contributions, and collections made at the ofiertory by
 
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 the whole congregation, everj' time the Lord's Supper is administered, 
 I have begun this praetiee at Auckland, Wellington, and Nelson, 
 and have requested the Clergymen at those places to continue it. 
 The fund thus formed, I propose to vest uniformly in five trustees : 
 the Bisliop, the Archdeacon of the district, the senior Minister, and 
 two laymen, one selected by the Bishop, and one by the Archdeacon : 
 the proceeds of the fund to be applicable to the building and endowment 
 of churches, schools, parsonage-houses ; and to the payment, in part, 
 of salaries of Clergymen. I hope to bring all dues, such as surplice 
 fees, Easter offerings, &c. into this fund, that they may be looked 
 upon as the dues of the Church, and not as gratuities to particular 
 Clergymen for services performed. 
 
 I require every town Clergyman to learn the native language, and be 
 ready to minister to the spiritual wants of the Aborigines; and 1 find 
 it will be necessary also to establish the converse rule, that every 
 Missionary to the natives shall also be ready to minister to the English 
 settlers; for in this country English and natives will live side by side, 
 unless some rupture (which God avert) should take place between the 
 two races. 
 
 The probable increase in the number of small secondary settlements 
 in this country, will make the necessity apparent of my having the 
 means of educating my own clergy, at least the greater number of 
 tliem. This object I hope to accomplish with no other expense to the 
 Society than an allowance for outfit and passage, similar to that already 
 granted to the three young students who accompanied me from 
 England. It has pleased God to deprive me of the assistance of one 
 of them, Mr. Evans, who died at Wellington on the 3d of October. 
 I have lost a most faithful and valued friend ; one who promised to be 
 a zealous and able minister in the Church. My brother William has 
 a candidate of the name of Hutton, who has been studying under 
 him ; and will probably be recommended to the Committee to supply 
 the place of my departed friend. These young men will, I hope, be 
 able to maintain themselves during their preliminary course by private 
 tuition in connexion with the collegiate school, which I have been 
 encouraged to undertake to establish in the immediate neighbourhood 
 of my own residence at the Waimate. Our institution there will 
 probably consist of a small college for candidates for Holy Orders, 
 under the care of the Rev. Thomas Whytehead ;* a collegiate school, 
 
 * The Society has to add, with deep regret, that the Bishop has been deprived 
 of the assistance of his excellent chaplain, of whom in all his letters he had 
 spoken with so much affection and cstccni. He died at the Waimate, on the 19th 
 of March, IStS.
 
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 under the direction of a competent master, assisted by the young 
 students of the college ; and a native boarding school for the education 
 of native children, selected from the different mission stations. By 
 putting our plan of life upon a collegiate system, and by aid of a good 
 extent of land, formerly the farm of the Church Mission, I hope to be 
 enabled to make the vhcle institution support itself without much 
 assistance from home. 
 
 I am now on my way from Taranaki to Kapiti, with the intention 
 of going up the Manavvata River to the East Coast, and proceeding 
 round the East Cape, and then through the centre of the country to 
 Auckland. On my return I hope to be able to give you a correct 
 Missionary map. The Chief Justice, Mr. Martin, is my companion. 
 
 In every part of the country I find great occasion for thankfulness 
 and hope. Of course little has been done as yet ; but the comfort is, 
 that very few hinderances have grown up to prevent tlie establishment 
 of a sound and efficient church system. May God give us grace to 
 use with earnestness and understanding the peculiar advantages which 
 are placed within our reach. We have not to combat with a host of 
 full-grown ditffculties, such as usually stand in the way of the ministers 
 of religion when they come late in the day into ground already pre- 
 occupied. Thank God we are foremost in the field, and may prevent, 
 I trust, much opposition, which otherwise would have been most inju- 
 rious to the interests of religion hereafter, 
 
 I beg to be most kindly remembered to all my friends in the 
 Society : and beg to assure them and you that I remain. 
 
 Ever your grateful and aflfectionate friend, 
 
 G. A. New Zealand. 
 
 Some further information ivith regard to the proceedings and prospects 
 of the Bishop, may be obtained from the following extracts from 
 his private letters to friends in England. 
 
 " My friend Mr. Chief Justice Martin and myself, feel that in the 
 line of our new duties, a door of great and eff"ectual usefulness is 
 opened to us. We have been appointed joint Trustees, with the chief 
 Protector of the Aborigines as our colleague, of the lands and funds 
 reserved for the benefit of the native race : a trust of immense
 
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 importance, both as regards the magnitude of the property, and still 
 more the high moral and spiritual interests which it involves. The 
 native Reserves amount in land to between thirty and forty thousand 
 acres ; and the money fund, to fifteen per cent, upon the produce of all 
 land sales effected by the government. The moral and spiritual con- 
 siderations involve the earnest endeavour to advance seventy or eighty 
 thousand of the most intelligent people in the world in the knowledge 
 of true religion, and in the scale of social existence. 
 
 " I speak of the natives first, because they are the great bulk of the 
 population ; and, I think, the hinge upon which the prosperity of the 
 colony will turn. But add to the Native Trust the necessity of pro- 
 viding every one of the English settlements with every one of its 
 Ecclesiastical Institutions ; for there is not so much as a Church of 
 England School in any one of them ; that the whole system has to be 
 framed by the gradual addition of that "which every joint supplieth ;" 
 that upon the soundness of the principles upon which this system 
 is framed, depends, under God, much of the future character of the 
 people of the country ; and I confess I should tremble at ray own 
 insufficiency, if the work did not display so manifestly the finger of 
 God in all its parts, that I can look upon myself only as one portion 
 of the clay, over which he has power, and which he is moulding 
 evidently according to his will. 
 
 " But I have not yet concluded the sources of comfort which may be 
 drawn from the effectual working of God's grace in this country ; 
 the care of the Church Mission by itself is an employment to which 
 I should have been thankful to be allowed to devote my whole life. 
 Taken as a whole, the Missionary body more than equals my expec- 
 tations. The great majority too of the Catechists whom I have 
 seen, are men who, with few advantages of education, have been 
 both faithful and successful in their exertions. As for the people, I 
 love them from my heart, and my desire to serve them grows day by 
 day ; there is something so cheering in the frank and cordial open- 
 ness of their countenance and manner, and in the blameless and 
 devout tenour of their lives." 
 
 '* On the 29th of July I sailed from Auckland, in the government 
 brig Victoria, for Nelson, which is one of the largest and most 
 flourishing settlements in New Zealand, situated at the very bottom 
 of Blind, or Tasman's Bay, in the northern shore of the middle island. 
 I arrived there on Sunday, August 21, and immediately went on shore, 
 and preached at the ai'ternoon service in the Emigration Barracks.
 
 BISHOP OP NEW ZEALAND. 11 
 
 " The next day I pitched the church tent, a most complete cathe- 
 dral, with pulpit, reading desk, comnuinion-table, rails, kneeling- 
 boards, &c. It was fitted up with boards resting on trunks of small 
 trees, It t into the ground, which the natives cut for me. I thus pro- 
 vided seats for 200, which were well filled on the following Sunday. 
 
 " On Sunday, Sept. 4, I collected at the offertory 33/. for Church 
 purposes, and administered the Lord's Supper to seventeen communi- 
 cants. After service, a native came to me, and, after much hesitation, 
 explained, that he had seen the Pakehas (English) giving their money, 
 and wished to give something also; upon which he produced Is.Gd. 
 as his contribution to the Church. 
 
 '* A lovely site for a church and cemetery has been reserved here : 
 a small mount, rising to the height of 100 feet, in the centre of the 
 little plain on which the chief part of the town stands, and with a flat 
 summit, sufficient for the base of a fine building. The site is already 
 occupied by wooden buildings, convertible into a temporary church 
 and school, at a small expense ; and the Company's agent, Captain 
 Wakefield, has consented to let me have them at a valuation ; by 
 which means I can at once provide for the reverential performance of 
 Divine Service. In the meantime, I have left my tent, with all its 
 appurtenances, for the use of the Rev. Mr. Keay, the clergyman, who 
 is staying to take care of the arrangements made for the benefit of the 
 natives at Nelson, and to act conjointly with Mr. Saxton (another 
 clergyman whom I found there) in the charge of the English settlers. 
 
 " A very strong feeling exists among all the respectable settlers at 
 Nelson in favour of the natives, only requiring to be guided into a 
 right direction. I gave instructious for tlie establishment of a small 
 School for native children, and of a room for the reception of sick 
 natives, to be placed under the care of Mr. Wilson, a very respectable 
 surgeon at Nelson. Observing that the natives of the surrounding 
 villages had no place to lodge in when they came to the town to bring 
 their potatoes and pigs for sale, (for which articles the English are 
 almost entirely dependent on the native supplies,) I ordered some 
 little dwellings to be built for them in an acre of their own land, the 
 name of each party being affixed to the dwelling allotted to them, in 
 which they can lock up their goods." 
 
 " On the 10th of October I left Wellington on foot, accompanied 
 by several natives, who carried our tents, beds, food, clothes, and 
 books, and set out on a land journey to New Plymouth, one of the 
 principal settlements of the Company, which is situated to the north
 
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 of Cape Egmoiit, the western extremity of New Zealand, and near 
 the Sugar Loaf Islands. After a few daj's' journey I was detained 
 by a slight inflammation in my heel, and was obliged to rest, while 
 some of the natives went forward to procure me a horse. I was 
 encamped, near the river Wanganui, on some low sand hills, with 
 three of the natives as my companions. My little tent was pitched 
 in the hollow of the sand hills, and my native attendants made them- 
 selves comfortable round a large fire, under a little hut, which they 
 soon constructed of drift wood and coarse grass. You would be 
 surprised with the comparative comfort which I enjoy in my encamp- 
 ments. My tent is strown with dry fern or grass ; my air bed is laid 
 upon it ; my books, clothes, and other goods lie beside it ; and though 
 the whole dimensions of my dwelling do not exceed eight feet by five, 
 I have more room than I require ; and am as comfortable as it is 
 possible for a man to be when he is absent from those whom he loves 
 most. I thus spent October 17th, the anniversary of my consecration, 
 in my tent on the sand hills ; and while in that situation I was led 
 naturally to contrast my present position with the very different 
 scenes in England last year. I can assure you that the comparison 
 brought with it no feelings of discontent; on the contrary, I spent the 
 greater part of the day, after the usual services and readings with my 
 natives, in thinking with gratitude on the many mercies and blessings 
 which have been granted to me in the past year. Indeed, in looking 
 back upon the events of the year; upon my happy parting from all my 
 friends ; my visit to the Bishop of Australia ; my voyages, (eight in 
 number;) my favourable reception in every town in my diocese ; my 
 growing friendship with natives, who hear of me in every part of the 
 country, and receive me with characteristic cordiality ; all form an 
 inexhaustible subject for thoughts of joy and thanksgiving, which 
 sometimes fill the heart almost to overflowing." — " Here," he after- 
 wards adds, " my favourite text came into my mind, 'The lot is fallen 
 ' unto me in a fair ground ; yea, I have a goodly heritage.' " 
 
 The Bishop is at present residing at the Waimate, a village about 
 
 sixteen miles from Auckland, described as by far the most settled place 
 
 in Neiv Zealand. He thtis describes his situation at this place : — 
 
 " Next door to our own house, which is the college, is the collegiate 
 
 school, which has not yet been opened, but will j)robably be set on
 
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 foot after Easter. The premises have hitherto been used as the 
 Missionary School, and are verj^ complete for the purpose. The Cathe- 
 dral library is established at Kerikeri, ten miles from this place, in a fine 
 stone building, partly used as a store. I have just completed the 
 arrangements of the library, so that the goodly presents of my numerous 
 friends are all accessible; and a beautiful sight they are. It is enough 
 to cheer the heart to see such a body of sound divinity collected in 
 this most distant of the dioceses of the Church of England. Add to 
 this the private feeling of knowing that every one of the books is the 
 gift of some friend, whose heart and whose prayers are with us. 
 
 "One of the chief advantages of the Waimate is, that we have a 
 spacious church close to the house. It is built entirely of wood, 
 painted white, and gives a very English look to the village. In the 
 interior we have a stone font, an altar cloth and cushions, a pulpit and 
 beautiful large books, all the gifts of different friends in England. 
 
 "Here I held my first confirmation, at which three hundred and 
 twenty-five natives were confirmed. A more orderly, and I hope 
 impressive, ceremony could not have been conducted in any church 
 in England ; the natives coming up in parties to the communion table, 
 and audibly repeating the answer — E wakaoetia ana e ahau, ' I do 
 (confess).' It was a most striking sight to see a church filled with 
 native Christians, ready, at my first invitation, to obey the ordinances 
 of their religion. On the following Sunday three hundred native 
 communicants assembled at the Lord's table, though the rain was un- 
 ceasing. Some of them came two days' journey for this purpose. 
 My Windsor communion plate was used for the second time on this 
 occasion. The natives were much pleased when they were told that 
 it was a present from my congregation in England, and seemed to 
 enter fully into the spirit of the gift."
 
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 STATEMENT OF THE PRESEiNT WANTS OF THE 
 DIOCESE OF NEW ZEALAND. 
 
 On the Bishop of New Zealand's appointment to his Dio- 
 cese, he was informed by the New Zealand Company that they 
 would make very liberal grants towards the endowment of the 
 Church in their different settlements, provided the Bishop would 
 meet these grants by equal contributions on the part of the Church. 
 To this arrangement the Bishop gladly acceded ; and by the assist- 
 ance of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and of his 
 private friends, has been enabled to proceed to a certain extent in 
 the fulfilment of his engagement. In consequence, however, of 
 the present pressure on the funds of the Society, it is unable to 
 continue to assist the Bishop so largely as it had hoped and desired. 
 Only half the sum which was granted in 1841 and in 1842 has been 
 voted for the present year ; and it seems uncertain whether even 
 that sum can be expected in any future year. 
 
 In the meantime, the planting of the Church in the settlements 
 belonging to the Government and to the Company has been com- 
 menced in a most encouraging manner. A large expenditure of 
 money is necessary in the first instance ; but the readiness of the 
 settlers to exert themselves for this purpose, combined with the 
 zeal of the native inhabitants, affords a good ground for hoping 
 that, if assistance be freely given at first, the Church in this new 
 colony may, under the Divine blessing, (which hitherto has been so 
 abundantly shed upon it,) be built up in all its integrity, and be 
 enabled to support itself without further aid from the mother 
 country. 
 
 Under these circumstances it is earnestly hoped that the friends 
 of the Bishop, and other persons interested in this mission, may be 
 willing to give the required assistance, either by Donations, or by a 
 promise of Annual Subscriptions.
 
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 SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE DIOCESE OF 
 NEW ZEALAND. 
 
 Donations. Ann. Subs. 
 
 £ s. d. £ s. d. 
 
 His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury 100 — 
 
 Mrs. Selwyn 100 _ 
 
 A. B., by C. J. Selwyn, Esq 100 — 
 
 W. Selwyn, Esq 50 — 
 
 Rev. W. Selwyn 25 — 
 
 Mrs. Hudson 20 — 
 
 Mrs. Hudson (2d don.) . . (Consols) 200 — 
 
 Rev, E. Coleridge 100 _ 
 
 Rev. E. Coleridge (2d don.) .... 30 — 
 
 Rev. E. Coleridge, Eton, collected by . 5 — 
 
 Rev. C. J. Abraham 50 — 
 
 Rev. E. Balston 50 — 
 
 Rev. Dr. Hawtrey 50 — 
 
 Rev. Dr. Hawtrey (2d don.) .... 500 — 
 
 W. S. Richardson, Esq 21 — 
 
 Miss Gaskell 500 — 
 
 Hon. F. Baring 12 10 — 
 
 Miss M. Gaskell 10 10 — 
 
 MissWilks — 220 
 
 Rev. T. Chamberlain 2 2 — 
 
 M. F. E 10 — 
 
 Mr. Jones 100 — 
 
 E. A. R 8 14 — 
 
 Rev. C. B. Dalton 550 110 
 
 The Lord Sandon 10 10 — 
 
 Robert Few, jun. Esq — 2 2 
 
 Sir C. Price, Bart. King William-street. 5 5 — 
 
 Floreat Etona 50 — 
 
 George Frere, Esq 50 — 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Perceval 10 — 
 
 Anonymous, per Brentwood Church Union 10 
 C, B,, per Rev. C. B. Dalton (for five years) — 
 
 The Lord Courtenay 5 
 
 M. Yeatman, Esq., Richmond .... 500 
 
 Hemy Hussey, Esq 2 
 
 Anonymous 110 
 
 Rev. T. Bowdler 10 10 
 
 Rev. W.G.Cookesley, Eton, for Cathedral 10 
 
 Henry Cotton, Esq 5 
 
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 16 SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR NEW ZEALAND. 
 
 Donations. Ann. Subs. 
 
 £ s. d. £ s. d. 
 
 Miss Fisher 600 — 
 
 H. Fitzherbert, Esq — 110 
 
 Rev. W. H. Guillemard 3 — 
 
 E. H. Hobhouse, Esq — 110 
 
 — Hutton, Esq 500 — 
 
 Rev. Dr. Jenkyns, Durham 20 — 
 
 Rev. Thomas Johnson 10 10 — 
 
 Rev. John Pardoe 200 — 
 
 Portman Chapel, Marylebone, Offering, 
 
 Ascension Day, Exodus xxv. 8 . . . 1 10 — 
 
 Alfred Shadwell, Esq — 110 
 
 . G. E. Towry, Esq. Sunning-hill, Berks .220 — 
 
 Rev. J. D. Watson, Northampton . . 20 — 
 
 Mrs. Paul, Finedon — 10 
 
 Rev. W. H. Hoare, for a Church ... 25 — 
 
 Rev. Dr. Lowe, Dean of Exeter ... 500 — 
 
 Lady A. Wallop 10 — 
 
 Lady H. Churchill 5 — 
 
 Miss Churchill 2 — 
 
 Miss Home 10 — 
 
 Hon. G. Fortescue ....... 100 — 
 
 Lady L. Fortescue 10 — 
 
 Rev. John Medley, Prebendary of Exeter 5 — 
 
 Rev. J. Dornford 100 ~ 
 
 John Carew, Esq 500 — 
 
 Rev. G. Kempe 10 
 
 Rev. J. C. Kempe 100 — 
 
 Rev. L. Acland 100 — 
 
 Rev. N. F. Lightfoot 10 — 
 
 Rev. J. Whyte 10 — " 
 
 Miss Sparkes 50 — 
 
 Contributions may he sent to the Treasurers of the Society, 79, Pall Mall; or may 
 be paid to the District Treasurers and Secretaries ; to " the Bishop of New 
 Zealand!s Church Account," at Messrs. Gosling & Sharpe's ; and at 
 
 Messrs. Barclay & Co.'s, 54, Lombard Street. 
 
 Messrs. Drummond & Co.'s, 49, Charing Cross. 
 
 Messrs. Rivington's, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Waterloo Place, Pall Mall 
 
 Mr. Deighton's, Cambridge. 
 
 Mr. Parker's, Broad Street, Oxford. 
 
 K. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL"
 
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