(To the Editor of the Southern Cross.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume I, Issue 34, 9 December 1843, Page 3

(To the Editor of the Southern Cross.)

Sir, — I do myself the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a letter thro' you from a gentleman (who, it appears wishes to keep his name private) answering part of my letter on funds collected at the Church. In writing to 3 r ou, I merely wished to obtain information as to what was done with the monies subscribed for the Church. I wish io know the price paid for the materials * the quantity paid for ; in fact, a de-

tailed account of what has been done with, the money subscribed. In writing to you, I had not the least idea tho' a " member of the Church of England," that the monthly contributions went to any object of charity, and if I had known they were given to the Clergyman, I would not have made the enquiry I did about them. But from the circumstance of the Bishop stating in a sermon relative to collections, that he disliked begging sermons, and recommending that contributions should be made monthly for the purpose of defraying tho expence of the completion of the Church ; I did think the funds were applied to that purpose. Also having seen a published statement of monies received by the Trustees, in the Southern Cross, in which they acknowledged having received in different collections at the Court House and Paul's, the sum of £47 19s. 10d., the last of which collection appears to have been made on the 7th May, 1842. I hope the gentleman that wrote to you will look to this ; he must have written in haste, for I am sure he knew these sums collected in the Church, on as you will perceive, by the date given, the first Sunday in the month, did not go to the poor, but to the building fund. There has been heretofore, too much secrecy about the expenditure of this money, but I trust the Trustees will now make known what has been done. It is two years and a half since the foundation stone was laid, and they have never given the public, or the subscribers any information on this subject. I am perfectly satisfied with tho way in which the monies now collected on Sundays in the Church are disposed of. lam happy to hear Mr. Churton receives them for acts of charity ; and I trust the gentleman that wrote to you, will assist me in getting for myself and other subscribers the information 1 seek. Yours, &c, A Subscriber. Auckland, December 6, 1843. [In publishing this letter wo must state, that our only interest in the subject of it is, that we think the party is entitled to obtain the information he asks for ; a trust concern, whatever it be, is too apt to be neglected ; and the public do well to look after such matters.— -Ed.]

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