NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, April 29.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 293, 20 May 1848, Page 3

NELSON. [From the Nelson Examiner, April 29.]

We bave been given to understand that the Bishop intends to establish a sort of MaoriAnglo college or school at the Motueka, and has left the Rev. — Tudor here to take charge of the Institution. Suitable buildings are forthwith to be erected, on which a sum of 4^300 is to be expended. The benefits of the measure will be felt by both natives and Europeans residing in that and the adjoining districts. We printed a few weeks back a letter addressed to the Wellington Independent, which we found in that journal, by Mr. Hanson Turton, the Wesleyan Minister at Taranaki, commenting on the conduct of the Bishop of New Zealand, respecting his refusal to allow Mr. Turton to register the burials in which that gentleman had officiated during the absence of a minister of the Church of England from that settlement. In republishing the letter in question, we were undoubtedly actuated by a desire to give publicity to what appeared to us a very uncharitable and intolerant act of the head of the Church in this colony, but we are now bound to say, that having read the whole of the correspondence which has passed on the subject of the registering of the interments in Taranaki, in which Mr. Turton acted in the absence of a clergyman, we take qui:e a different view of the Bishop's conduct, and it would be unbecoming in us if we did not publicly say so ; for certainly we should not have given any publicity to Mr. Turtons letter had we known as much of the circumstances which gave rise to it as we do now. With regard to the registering of the interments we have nothing to do ; whether the Churchwardens should have allowed Mr. Turton to enter them, or whether Mrs. Bolland was justified in refusing the registry, and referring the matter to the Bishop, is no business of ours. But as Mr. Turton, in his letter to the Churchwardens, quotes the Canons of the Church to show that he is the proper person to register the deaths, we see nothing improper in the Bishop (the letter having been forwarded to him by the Churchwardens), to refer in his reply to-other Canons, to show that Mr. Turton was not the proper person to register the deaths.