GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

AUSTRALIA’S TRIALS. LONDON, May 14

The Australia has gone to Plymouth for torpedo and other trials. She returns to Portsmouth on 2SLh .May for commissioning the ’Canberra,

PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY LONDON, May 14.

The Protestant Reformation Society strongly criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury for delaying the publication of the Maline’s Conversations until the Revised Prayer Book liad been submitted to Parliament, thereby subjecting the Anglican Church to unnecessary and unwise humiliation. The conversations Were a sinister attempt to unite Anglican arid Roman Catholic Churches at the cost of the spiritual truth, historical .ami racy, spm'itnnH ami civil liberty which the Prayer Book was calculated to facilitate. Sir John Haslain, a member of the Church Assembly, speaking at the Society’s Annual Meeting, said:—i “We were told to accept the Prayer Book because the Bishops had been working thereon for twenty years." Only five per cent, of the Bishops officiated during that period, consequently one jury beard the evidence and another gave the verdict. What were these Bishops thinking them selves but to follow Chavasse Knox.”

“The Bishops of the Devil’’ answered a voice in the audience.