BISHOP REDWOOD’S ADVERTISEMENT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1008, 30 July 1883, Page 2

BISHOP REDWOOD’S ADVERTISEMENT.

To THE EdIIOR. Sir, —It Is necessary for me to make a few remarks in explanation of the advertisement signed by Bishop Redwood and appearing in your issue to-night. The Wellington special correspondent of the Lyttelton Times after telegraphing the advertisement that appeared in the Evening Post if Wellington of Friday last, goes on to make an The paragraph in question runs thus in substance —** That the 1 Colonial Land Settlement and Endowment Association of New Zealand, Limited,’ was started to buy native lands and to found a special settlement where Catholic schools and other institutions of a like nature could be founded. Instead of devoting the money of the Company to the purchase of 'ands Bishop Redwood has a project of spending it on theological colleges." Sir, the one theologi al college was mooted, and part of the land bought for he purpose before the above-mentioned Company was dreamed of, but that Bishop Redwood thought for a moment of applying to this purpose the money of the shareholders is false, and I beg you to give it a distinct denial. The primary object of the Company, stated in the prospectus, was —“ That half the profits were to be divided amongst shareholders and the balance be granted to the Catholic schools pro rata with the number of shares held in each district, and with the ultimate object of educating their children at less cost than at present.” The slur cast on the character of a well known gentleman like Bishop Redwood carries its own condemnation. —lam, etc. Edmond Coffey,