ANGLICAN CHURCH CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 755, 19 April 1877, Page 2

ANGLICAN CHURCH CAMBRIDGE.

- MBSIIKa OF MEMBERS.

A PifHttc '*kfr%a of /the" m'emiierg of the.EQglisA yaj»?ojp#^JOAjeiied,by the^Bliahopiof the Diocese, was held afc-St; Andt-ew-'s Church-, on-Monday, tifeMLSjth wast.: % . „--,.. w W dccu'pied by Dr C6wie,,and y^ere ? ,was a } fair attendance. Ifie meeting with prayer. . .

.The minutes of the last annual kneeling" ff'efoTead and <johfit-med. /The JBishop said .that the first business that' would come before them, had reference to the procuring .an ' addijtidnal piece of land for a^ parsonage. • Avl acre had. b<?en secured by M> Parker, close by, and that gentleihan ' would let them have it,*?o*r theißanSeprice as he had paid —£•20,, He (the Bishop) thought that ... before./ any thing, 4 was done towards- getting a resident clergyman^they should setttle,this matter, and get the house built; He could speak, from experience, that it was very^ifficulfc to- get house-ropm. As he said when last there, he would give £5 towards the purchase of the land; J and' ! Major' Wilson had promised the same amount. This, with some money ralready m hand, would be nearly enough for the purpose. ..;Mt Gad worth , (from whom Mr Parker had bought the acre) said that the 4eeds i had • not yet been made out. /Mr Hewitt" sald'Mr Parker had given kirn authority' to -have them completed, .and. he. r thought a committee should be appointed to become security for the payment of the nidriey ito Mp . The Bishop wished a matter of such Importance- 'to " be settled at onces,, ,and ( if .Mr . Hewitt would authorise jum to write to; Mr Parker td say that ;he. (Mr Hewitt) wo aid beariSwerable for the sum, perhaps the. ineeting would : consider the matter disposed of. Mr Hewitt having agreed to this, the meeting adopted the Bishop's suggestion.-* , -The Bishpp-said, the next business related more directly to bis office. It was distressing (he could apply no other word to ifc) to see such a large congregation with only a fortnightly service. He was fully awstre' .of .ther arrangement made with -Presbyterian brethren, •as to the : "use" of the building, but; of course, it'*wduld' be absurd to thinks that a .called a Cburch of England building should be used by others more than by themselves. * He thought that even if they could not obtain a resident minister, the Targe congregation he • had seen there demanded a lay service ., a) ternately, with a service by the visiting minister. He considered -.this ; waft: a matter that the vestry ought to deal with. He wished every tHTng 1 to 'be done as 'kindly as possible, and without any hurry. ; Let the Presbyterians have plenty of notice^ given them, that after-aioerjaindaythe Church would ibe required foi.* their own services, owing to the" increased number of the ? congregation^ and at the urgent" suggestion of the Bishop, The matter had simply come to this, thai one' building |waa no ' longer sufficient for the two denominations. He was., sijre that ; e very of the Church who could afford it ■vftmld'gladly aubscribe- towards the ,ere6tidn ni f>f <a" *C h arch '- for their Presbyterian friends. A resolution embodying the suggestion of the Bishop, and fixing the r date after* which the Church would be required as the 30fch of July next was carried, and a committee of tbtee from among the vestrymen were appointed to carry it out. With reference to the only remaining business the Bishop said he did not thinkut desirable to send a young v beginner |to fill the post of resident Clergyman, though of course a man "of tribra' T experience would require alarger's^pend; prbbably£2oo a-year fand the services might be arranged thus i weekly morning serride, at Cambridge' ? fortnightly afternoon services, at Ohaupo \ fortnightly afternoon service at Hautapu'* ', l{ and; quarterly service at Matamata. At the request of the meeting, the Bishop said he would be glad to recommend to the standing committee that ; a grant of £20 be made towards the Clergyman's stipend for the first ,year. °He was fully alive to the necessity of appointing one at once. A cordial vote of thanks to Dr Cowie, concluded the business.— Own Correspondent,