BISHOP NELIGAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 52, 26 March 1909, Page 4

BISHOP NELIGAN.

JUS FOIU'IICOAIINIi VISIT. The flight Kev. Dr. Jfeligan, Uishop of Auckland, will arrive in llic Taranaki Archdeaconry on Saturday morning ne.\t i ou a brief visit. 1I« goes to the Wui- - liim parish, where eonlirmation services will be lii'lil, and returns to New l'lyuouth in tliu evening. On Sunday iiuniiiig lie will he (he celebrant at : loly Communion at St. Alary'* Cliurcli, \>w il'lyinoutk. At It) o'clock there fill be Alorniiig Prayer in the Cliurcli nd at 11 o'clock the Bishop will adiiinistiT the rite of C'oiilinuaUou to a ugc number of candidates. At li in lie afternoon tlie Bishop will be present t tlm unveiling of the three new hatehni'iits which are being erected in the ■liurcli to tile memory of the Royal Arillcr.v, the Koyal Kiiginecrs, aiid the 2th ltegji'inent resi>ecUvely, completing lie number. 'The preacher on this ocasion will be the Yen. Archdeacon Y'alsh, of Waimate, who has painted 11 the hatchments. At the evening mrice the Ivishop will be the preacher. On iloikU.v the Uishup will go to the Ikiilo district, where he is to udmiiiiser continuation to n number of Maori andidates for membership, lie returns o Xew Plymouth later iu the day, and n the evening he will deliver a lecture n St. .Mary's parish hull on ••The I'an\nglican Congress." At this great pariainent of the English Church representatives weir present, from all parts ii the world, and the conference had mil i« having the most remarkable ef>cts upon the Church generally. The IHshop was on- of the representatives if the Cliurcli in the province of New Zealand, and his account of what was lone at the epoch-making congress should lie of deepest interest to M members of the Cliurcli of Xew /"aland. The lecture will be illustrated by a large siumlier of lantern slides, and the opportunity of having at iirst hand an account of'the doings of the greatest religious conference of our generation should be taken liy every loyal churchman. Tuesday the llishop will spend at Stratford, where he holds a confirmation service, and, catching the express in the afternoon, he will return by the lorthward steamer to Auckland.