Anglican Svnod.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 107, 13 April 1883, Page 2

Anglican Svn od.

fBY. TELEGRAPH.) (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) . ... Napier, This Day. Tbe Synod at its evening sitting was occupied with a warm debate cm the religious education question. The Bishop of Nelson, denounced the Catholic Schools as giving teaching, subversive of both civil and religious liberty, m setting the head of their churches and : his commands over the Queen and her laws. Ultimately a petition was adopted praying, (1) for grants for denominational schoools ; (2) for the right to clergy to enter schools and give religious instructions to children of their own commission; and (3) for local option I clause, empowering each committee to order specified portions of scripture to be used at option of each committee. The last clause was an amendment by Archdeacon Mules. The Synod : further disposed of : a number of small matters of no great interest, and then had a lengthy discussion on the proposal of the trustee of ft John's College, Auckland, to sell, part of the Taranaki endowment. The ; debate;. was interrupted by the 6 o'clock adjournment. Permission to bring m a Bill to extend the right of voting at parish meetings to female communicants was, on a 'division, refused. 1 A motion; is- to be tabled by the Dean of Christchurch condemnatory of marriage, with a deceased wife's sister. .