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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 198, 13 December 1872, Page 6

The £?,&§.. by of " shilling subscriptions has made gooil prpgress. ' Up» wards of U,(M)O individuals have contributed their shillings. w . Mr. Franci.s is only 1 waiting for the decision of New Zealand regarding the Postal Conference,, an.l will be guided ,by it' solelr. He .announced ; t6-diy,,.at'a' private interview, ? a^ on l a -,. mgofa' tele^rapb'Mable;to that Colony^ TESTiMosriAiitp' Sir'JaVnes. is .°^;-,fpot The subscriptions areiftiiiied to a of each. The Governor states that he has full liberty to rebeive a testimonial; the regulations prevent his receiving one from-the Colonists, officially. The Bishopric of , Mxilanasiai vaijaiit by the death of Dr. Patteson, was offered in the first instance to the Rev. R. H. MjA., ■ Fellow of Wadham College 1 ,. Oxford) who has had some experience of Missionary Jrfe ;in New; Zealand. Mr' Codrin*ton declined it, and it was then'offered to i^ r -; •R- who. will go out urimediwill be consecrated at Auckland when the, necessary arrangements are; 'made. fiiE Lands Boar-.i- now consists of tiie following member*J. T. Thorfipson, Chief • Commissioner . Jo\n , .Hughes,' Esq., Qeorge Duncan, , Esq.. James Alla r j, Ksq., Donald Reid, Esq., W. A. Tolmie, EsqCommissioners. -