THE SELWYN MEMORIAL.

Patea Mail, 21 February 1882, Page 3

THE SELWYN MEMORIAL.

The Earl of Dartmouth unveiled the monument to Bishop Selwyn, in Lichfield, England. It is a recumbent figure, carved out of a beautiful block of Derbyshire alabaster, and is eertainly a marvellous likeness of the well-known features of the great missionary Bishop. The whole figure is admirably rendered. The hands are placed together as in prayer, and the pastoral staff rests by the side of the figure, which itself reposes most appropriately on a beautifully carved New Zealand mat. The little chamber itself is enriched with frescoes and colored tiles. The west wall is decorated with a series of shields, arranged after the fashion of a “ Jesse,” so as to represent the successive births of the New Zealand Church from the parent stem, where is to be seen a shield containing the late Bishop’s arms impaled with the arms of the original diocese. On the wall facing the spectator from the Lady Chapel are two pictures, the .one westwards, representing the light of the Gospel breaking upon the Maoris, and the other eastwards, indicating the same light blessing the Staffordshire colliers. On the eastern wall are interesting pictorial representations of the two missionary vessels, the Undine and the Southern Cross; also of a New Zealander in his savage condition, and of the same man after being brought under the influence of the Gospel. Other representations may be seen illustrative of the life of Bishop Selwyn and his great and noble work, Selwyn College, the second part of the memorial to the late Bishop, is now rapidly rising at Cambridge.