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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 275, 20 November 1877, Page 2

Mr Martin Kennedy, whose name was identified with a question of privilege a short time ago, made .a personal explanation in the House the other evening. It was that while in Wellington last year he saw an advertisement in the papers calling for tenders for the supply of coal, and being very desirous of seeing the coal of New Zealand penetrate into all markets he, through the blaadering of another person, became the contractor and lost on the transaction. Now, he said, he was free from all Government contracts. The Times publishes extracts from a letter from Dr Moorhouse, Bishop of Melbourne, giving some account of his journey in the interior of Victoria. Dr Moorhouse is apparently highly gratified at the reception he has generally met with, but is fully alive to the paucity of clergymen. He says:—" This is a fine rich country, but oh, how it needs spiritual laborers. If I had only 50 of the men who are wasting their days ia small English villages to take parochial districts measuring 30 miles by 20 it would not only be for the furthering of our divine Master's kingdom but for the good of the men themselves." In another letter to a relative Dr Moorhouse says, "I would not give up the work here for anything whatever that I have ever seen in England."