THE BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 151, 10 May 1862, Page 5

THE BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND.

(From the Nebon Examiner. The following passage is an extract from a sermon delivered by the Bishop of New Zealand, at Christchurch, Nelson, on Sunday, the 16th instant. We have the best authority for stating that, in using these words, Bishop ' Selwyn had in his mind the speech of Canon Stowell at Douglas, which -has been going the round of the newspapers :— " I must not be supposed to be speaking1 now of acts of violence, injustice, or oppression, of which Christian nations have been guilty, as if such charges lay at the door of this colony. Exaggerated statements drawn from other countries may nave been applied to us as if we had been guilty of the same evil deeds. In defence of the colonists of New Zealand, of whom I am one, I say most distinctly aud solemnly that I have never known, since the colony began, a single act of wilful.injustice or oppression committed by any one in authority against a New Zealandcr. It may have been difficult to persuade some few individuals that the natives were entitled to equal rights with ourselvcr, but in practice their rights and liberties have been maintained inviolate, and the result is, that the New Zealanilers,J%lmost to a man, look upon it as their higeeat privilege to be united with ourselves in one faith and in one law."