BISHOPS GRAY AND COLENSO.

West Coast Times, Issue 308, 18 September 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)

BISHOPS GRAY AND COLENSO.

The Natal correspondent of the <4 ,P a P c Argus" writes ■: — "A most interesting and important series of letters appeared a few days ago in the " Natal Mercury" — one from the Bishop of London, and three from Miss Burdett Coutts. Of the latter, one is addressed to the Bishop of Cape Town, plainly, although in the most courteous terms, charging, him with misusing the power and position conferred upon him by her bounty. The whole correspondence will well repay perusal, anj. if Bishop Gray can cat Miss Coutts's bread after having been so unmistakably told he has ob J tamed it on false pretences, he must have a good digestion.

" A notice was lately posted|on the Natal Cathedral doors, prohibiting the Rjdv. F S. Robinson and the Rev. E. W. Jacob from officiating in the -said church until they shall have exhibited to the* churchwarden, Mr Brooks, the bishop's licence so to do. The notice states that they are not -licensed by Bishop Colenso to officiate in this diocese ; 'but beyond this prohibition to do so in the cathedral they have not been interfered with, I believe, xind this may be solely the church war den's act. * Live a,nd let live' seems to be the bishop's motto. Altogether, the bishop pursues the even tenor of his way, and although some great authority has pronounced him to nave been ' ground to powder,' yet somehow it doesn't seem to harm him much — much like the heroine o one of Dr Callaway's Zulu tales, who though ' ground to powder,' came to life again, and appeared none the worse for it."