Bishop Stuart,

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 51, 17 March 1894, Page 11

Bishop Stuart,

-Bate of Waiapu, Hew Zealand

Bishop Stuart resigned the See of 'Waiapu, H.Z., a short time ago, in order to take up mission among the Mohammedans of Persia, and is on Iris way to England, whence he will proceed to his new sphere of labor. The following sketch of his career from the C.M. Intelligence, will be of interest: —“ The news of the resignation of Bishop Stuart of Waiapu, with a view of joining the Church Missionary Society’s Persia Mission, is of deej) interest. In 1850, T. V. French and E. C. Stuart went out together to India to form aC.M.S. College at Agra. After 27 years of varied labor at that and other posts, both became bishops in the same year. Mr Stuart was for a time at Jabalpur, and afterwards for some years C.M.S. Secretary at Calcutta, and chaplain to Bishop Cotton. In 1872 he was helping the Home Secretariat a.t Salisbury SScjuare. Considerations of health caused his removal to Hew Zealand, where at once threw himself into the Society’s Maori Mission. When the ITen. Bishop Williams retired from -the Bishopric of Waiapu, Mr Stuart was' elected by the synod of the

diocese to succeed him, and he was ■ consecrated on the island in 1877. Since then he has been untiring in his work, both in the colonial church and in missionary work among the Maoris. He and his daughter have been accustomed to ride hundreds of miles over the mountains and through the forests of Hew Zealand, visiting the homestead of the settler and the kainga of the native. The Maori section of the church has flourished under his fostering care. He has ordained 14 Maori clergymen, and the number under his episcopal oversight was 17,although some have died. Within his diocese is the C.M.S. Theological College for all the Maori work, the famous Te Ante College for the education of better class of Maori boys and youths, and boarding schools for younger boys and girls. A fine Cathedral at Hapier, and an endowment for the see are the fruits of his influence and energy ; although the Diocese of Waiapn is more identified with the C.M.S. than any other in the colony, yet it contributes more than than any other to the Melanesian Mission.