DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

COURT OF BISHOPS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The Court of Bishops concluded today the hearing of an appeal by Archdeacon Gosset against the judgment of the bishops in regard to the charges concerning the Rev. Perry, vicar of St. Michael's, Christchurch. To-day's sitting was devoted to the interrogation of parties, after which the court reserved its decision. PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. Christchurch, Last Night. At the Presbyterian Assembly to-day the chaplains committee's report was presented. Three returned chaplainsRevs. H. W. Burridge, R. S. Watson, and J. I). Wilson —were present and were accorded a most cordial welcome. Speaking to the report, the Rev. W. J. Comrie said it was lip to them to do something for their men who were returning from the war in placing them in avocations, but, so far, they ought to be doing more than giving military and civic welcomes. There was no one from their church to give them a friendly hand. They wanted some organisation | to let those men feel they had a living interest in them. Major R. H. Catherwood, in dealing with last year's epidemic visitation at the military camps, referred to the great work of Mrs. Page, a real heroine, who got together a band of women who cooked for a thousand men. There were two graces they needed to pray for to help the returned men, and these were a briuht face and a kind heart. It was the "white man," as they called liim, who could get along with the soldiers. Their language might not be printable at times, but he had heard worse in the Assembly, or, at anyrate, if they did not say ii they meant it when they got at one another. It was decided to add to the deliverance an expression of thanks to Mrs. Page and ladies of Featherston for their work in the camps.