GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. Bishop Barnes reiterates his objec- | tions to the prayer book proposals, as I further disuniting the church. He ■ advocates in the event of the Commons rejecting the proposals for a noncontcntious revision. He partly agrees with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s plea, but though moved by the pathos of its words, he declares younger men must face the realities, especially be r cause the Church’s present plight is due to the failure of the lenders in the immediate, past to do so. He says the church will steadily lose its evangelical, liberal elements and the possible ending is church disendowment.

archbishop of canterbury LONDON, June 7. ' The Archbishop of Canterbury, pre- ' siding at the Canterbury Diocesan Conference, hinted at his early retirement. He said the\Sevonth Lambeth in 1930 would not be under his chairmanship. PARSON IN DISGRACE. LONDON, June 7. The Bishop of Gloucester has considered the commission’s report anent "Vlfevd. Hayden’s conduct and decided to inhibit him from ecclesiastical duties for two years. His living will be sequestrated and after making the necessary payments providing for a curate, the rest of the income will be paid to Hayden, conditional upon his leaving the parish. The Bishop said ' the charge, was not a light one. The V_ language used seemed foi a clergyman. IRISH POLITICS. fjONDON, June 8. Five lulls to amend the Free State Constitution were introduced in the Dail and read a first time, despite strong opposition from do \a.lorns party. Four deal with the constitution find the method of the election of th’e .Senate. The fifth, proposes. to ■ aboilish forty seven and forty-eight dealing with initiative and referendum.