Dean Fitchett reported to yesterday's meeting of the Synod that the chapter had now £6000 in hand, and held promises of £3000 more.
That meant that they had to get about £4000 together within the next two or three years.
The Primate remarked that he had great hesitation in asking persons in remote parts of the diocese for assistance in this matter, in case he would be interfering with local needs and requirements.
It was true, however, that they might look for assistance from many important towns and districts whence no help had been as yet received; from Invercargill, for instance, only one donation had been received.
The diocese has to raise £20,000 in order that it may secure the £25,000 bequeathed under the will of the late Mr Wm.
Harrop to the Anglicans for the purpose of building a cathedral.
The Cathedral Chapter is making every effort to raise 20,000, and when 14,000 is secured a commencement will be made with the erection of the building.
• Our Bluff correspondent says: "The cutter Rosetta, from the West Coast Sounds fisheries, reports an exciting, and perhaps serious, incident from Preservation Inlet.
The ascertainable facts are these: The wife of the lately-appointed native-bird caretaker at Resolution Island, said to be a recent arrival from Home, being anxious to join her husband, rashly undertook the journey on foot.
In company with a guide named Harry Bates, she set out from Orepuki.
On the day the Rosetta left Cromarty Bates came into the settlement and reported that the woman, having knocked up on the track about 12 or 14 miles from the inlet, he was forced to leave her and come on for assistance. - ODT, 30.10.1903.
