THE PRIMATE OF NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8171, 29 June 1906, Page 5

THE PRIMATE OF NEW ZEALAND.

(From Our London Correspondent). LONDON, May 18. It is no doubt well-known that Lord Bishop Nevill, your Primate, has come Home on more or less private business—though, perhaps, more especially to promoty the raising of funds for the Dunedin < Cathedral. 1 found His Lordship looking well, ana as full of energy as ever, and not displeased at the hearty receptions accorded to him everywhere. His residence during his stay here ia in a charming part of London in the midst of noble streets, squares and crescenJs. Not far from Hampstead Heath, and in a wellwooded district, the air was fragrant with the scents of budding spring, and His Lordship referred with pleasure to the many beautiful walks and soenes in the vicinity. A personage of the importance of the Primate of your colony cannot hide his !presence, even in an im« ense city like London, and His Lordship has found it not too easy a task to differentiate between engagements which his position makes it incumbent upon him to accept, and those which must be declined to enable him to enjoy eveu a small portion of that leisure to which his advancing years entitle him. He has promised to oreaoh at his eld college, that of Magdalene, at Cambridge, on the 27th inst. On the 28th he will be one of an assemblage of magnates who will be entertained by your High Commissioner. Two or throe days with the Arohbiahop of Canterbury next week, a day and night at Fulharn Palace with the Bishop of London, will be among the engagements of the near future, and, of course, he will be with the Lord Mayor on Empire Day. Bishop Nevill has been elected an Hon. Fellow of Magdaleue College. Among the Fellows of the College, by the bye, is a sou of the Archbishop Benson. His Lordship, who will return to New Zealand in October, has kindly promised to give me an opportunity, later on, of sending ; you more particulars of his doings, and, perhaps, his impressions of the Old Country*