A CLERICAL SCANDAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4209, 23 August 1876, Page 3

A CLERICAL SCANDAL.

{From our oxn Correspondent.)

Napier, August 22. Some little scandal has been aroused here among members of a Protestant Church. A clergyman named Robinson, who recently arrived from England, has obtained great popularity through preaching eloquent and able sermons, and always filled the church when it was known that he would preach. Great jealousy arose among the other Protestant clergymen, and Mr Robinson was accused of piracy. He denies the accusation, has put his sermons in print.

and challenges his opponents to prove. At last he has been so persecuted as to resign his curacy, and his resignation was curtly accepted. The parishioners, hearing of the circumstance, demand a meeting to debate the matter, which will come off next week, and it is expected to be very lively. Nine out of every ten of the people in the parish sympathise with the Rev. Mr Robinson.

The railway to Waipawa is expected to be opened this week. A man named M‘Donald was fined L 5 for drunkenness in a railway carriage. Another charge against him of indecent assault to a female fell through. Manena, a Native chief, accused of disorderly behaviour in a railway carriage, manages to keep out of the reach of the police. Last Monday, when the police came up to arrest him, he got in a canoe and kept in the middle of the river, chaffing his pursuers.

August 23. The charge against Langham of wife murder has been heard to clay before the Resident Magisti'ate. The post moitcm examination shows that death resulted from congestion of the brain caused by blows. The prisoner was committed for trial.