Letters From the Bishop of New Zealand to the Society for the Propagation of T
Letters From the Bishop of New Zealand to the Society for the Propagation of T
George Augustus Selwyn
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I arrived there on Sunday, August 21, and immediately went on shore, and preached at the ai'ternoon service in the Emigration Barracks. BISHOP OP NEW ZEALAND. 11 " The next day I pitched the church tent, a most complete cathe- dral, with pulpit, reading desk, comnuinion-table, rails, kneeling- boards, &c. It was fitted up with boards resting on trunks of small trees, It t into the ground, which the natives cut for me. I thus pro- vided seats for 200, which were well filled on the following Sund...ay. " On Sunday, Sept. 4, I collected at the offertory 33/. For Church purposes, and administered the Lord's Supper to seventeen communi- cants. After service, a native came to me, and, after much hesitation, explained, that he had seen the Pakehas (English) giving their money, and wished to give something also; upon which he produced Is. Gd. As his contribution to the Church. '* A lovely site for a church and cemetery has been reserved here : a small mount, rising to the height of 100 feet, in the centre of the little plain on which the chief part of the town stands, and with a flat summit, sufficient for the base of a fine building.
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