DIOCESAN SYNOD.

Evening Star, Issue 3930, 29 September 1875, Page 2

DIOCESAN SYNOD.

The Synod resumed at four o'clock yesterday afternoon in the City Council Chambers. The Rev. Air Grangku said the Committee appointed on the subject of a psalter for general use throughout the diocese were unable to bring up a report during the present session of the Synod, aud therefore asked that they should be vcrmitted to report to the Standing Committee. Mr Wayne moved—" Ihat as the extension of the means of grace iB only practicable by voluntary effort, it !b <le.-drf.bU', iu the opinion of the Synod, that a Ohu'-ch t-ociefy !>• fornii d t" :r the purposes of 1. The support, in whole .■;■ in part, of clergymen, missionaries, or catechists in districts not able to do so of themselves, 2, The endowment of churchcß, 3.

The erection of churches and parsonage*. Mode of operation to be by a General Committee of laity end clergy, with the Bishop as President in Dunedin, and branch associations through the diocese. -Such action to be taken to bring the Society and its objects under the notice of the members of the Church by public meetings, annually and quarterly, and in other ways, so aB to induce them to become subscribes to its funds. That nil Church people be a-<ked to register their names as memberß of the Society at a registration fee of 2s 6d, and a monthly subscription of not less than Is. That collectors be appointed out of the memberß of the Society to collect such monthly subscriptions, and pa} them into the Society's fund, such collectors to bo furnished with cards by the Society for this purpose. That the Bishop bo requested to take steps toward tho attainment of this object." The resolution had been before the Synod before, and ho need therefore say little upon it. —A number of members supported the motion, including Archdeacon Edwards, who, however, said he disapproved of the endowment of churches. '1 he motion wa* carried.

The Regis Nation of Synod Bill was read a second time and paseed. The debate on the motion of Archdeacon ■tfdwardo re clause 4 of the Constitution was *--- rni '» President (Bishop Nevill) Baid they shou'd approaci. .. •-,„ time with greatest delicacy, and at (he bh«... ->vn e perfect freedom. After speaking at length he gave as his opinion that the proper way of dealing with the sUldect wOuld beTof the Synods in tho various dioceseft to suggest that the next general Synod be regarded ** «*

• 'onveution, inasmuch as the original Constitution Was drawn up as a convention, and introduce into their Constitution clauses to take tho place of those which have become obsolete, — Archdeacon Kdwauds briefly replied, ttnd ft vote was taken with the following result i—Ayes: Clergy 9, Laity 8 total 17; Noes, Clergy 1 Laity 3—total 4. The motion was therefore carried by a majority of 13. The Rev. C. F. Withy moved-" That the Bishop of Dunedin and tho clergy of the Dunedin parishes be a Committee to carry out simultaneous examination, by means of written questions, grounded ou the scheme already pubUshed, of the Sunday Schools throughout the diocese." Carried.

The Rev. 11. L. Stanford moved—" That i.he following be a Printing Committee for thepurpose of having the statutes, resolutions, and proceedings of the Synod printed, vis., Rev. K. G Penny, Messrs Ashcroft, Hawkins, and the mover." Cairied.

Mr Howorth moved, and Mr Hawkins seconded—" That this Synod, in pursuance of the power or authority given to it by the Bishops in the New Zealand Trust Act, 1871, and of every or any other power in anywise enabling it in that behalf, doth hereby constitute and appoint John Leach Butterworth, Henry Howorth, Edmund Edward Colston Quick, Henry Frederick Hardy, and Spencer brent 1 o be trustees of Sections 24 and 25, Block XVLI., Dunedin, and of Section 43, Block XIII., Dunedin, now vested in the Right Kev. Henry John Chitty, Bishcp of Christchurch : To hold the said lands and hereditament?, subject to all the trusts, and for the interests and purposes for which the said lands •vere granted to or held in trust by the said Bishop. That this Synod, in pursuance of the power or authority given to it by the Bishopsin the New Zealand Trust Act, 1871, and of every or any other power in anywise enabling it iu that behalf, doth hereby constitute and appoint John Leach Butterworth, Henry Howorth, Edmund Edward Colston Quick, Henry Frederick I lardy, and Spencer Brent to be trustees of Section 15, Block XV., Dunedin, in the place and stead of his Lordship the lato Bishop of New Zealand, in whom the land is now vested : To hold the said laud and hereditaments when the same shall be legally conveyed to or vested in them, the said J. L. Butterworth, 11. Howorth, E. E. C. Quick, H. F. Hardy, and S. Brent upon the trust and for the purposes for which the same ought to be held." —Mr Lubecki opposed the motion, on. the ground that the land, up to a recent date,. was claimed by the three parishes of St. Paul's, All Saints', and St. Matthew's, and treated a» common property in the Church of England, life moved as an amendment that the names proposed be left out, and others inserted, giving two representatives from each parish.—Mr Stanford said it was stated by one party that the property belonged to St. Paul's, by another tb*t it belonged to the Dunedin parishes, and by others that it belonged to the parishesthroughout the diocese. The Synod should not pass the motion while it was in this condition, nor until the Supreme Court had declared the meaning of this particular trust. He hoped the Synod would agree to substitute the names proposed by MrLubecki.—The amendment was carried.—Mr Quick moved aud Mr Hardy seconded that the property be vested in the Bishop as sole trustee, which was lost. The Synod adjourned at 12 p.m.