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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 689, 10 March 1852, Page 2

In the last number of the Otago Witness, received by the Scotia, an appeal is published by the Church of England Committee on behalf of the fund for building an Episcopal Church, School, and Parsonage, at Dunedin, of which the following is tbe substance: —The European members of the Church of England in the Otago district, amount to about 420; in addition to these the Church is attended by many of the natives and persons of other religious denominations in that district. The Rev. J. A. Fenton. M.A., late Curate of Norton, neat Sheffield, has recently been licensed by the Bishop of New Zealand as Incumbent of Dunedin. Ihe cost of building a Church, School, and Parsonage, is estimated at £l5OO. Towards this the sum of £272 has been collected in the town of Cheltenham and its neighbourhood by F. Richardson, Esq., a newly arrived settler, late of that town, and presents have been made of a Font by A. B. Hope, Esq., M.P., of Communion Plate by A. F. Mierville, Esq., and a small Organ in part the gift of G. Freeman, Esq. The Committee expect to raise the. sum of two hundred pounds within the district; the remainder they hope to obtain from the Society for promoting Christian knowledge, and their friends and fellow Churehmen in England and the colony. We are glad to publish the above account and, so far as we can, second the appeal of the committee; if a constitution were bestowed on the Church of England in New Zealand, its members would be able to render effectual help to congregations strugghng. as in this case, to provide the means of religious worship and education to those of their communion in a newly settled district ; and these, mindful of the help in ii«l e of need theyhad themselves received would,oa a future .occasion, cheerfully impart it also to their neighbours when struggling under similar difficulties.