Letters to Bishop Gray and Jones of Cape Town from clergy and bishops in Scuth Africa and England, provincial and Bloemfontein diocesan officials, Civil Commissioner Kimberley and President Brand of the Orange Free State.

Correspondents:

E. Bourdillon.

Bishop H.B. Bousfield.

President J.H. Brand.

W. Bright.

W.T. Bullock.

Bishop H. Callaway.

W. Crisp.

J. Douglao.

W.T. Gaul.

Bishop R. Gray.

W.A. Holbech.

Bishop J. Jackson(London).

Bishop W.W. Jones.

E. Judge.

Bishop B. Key.

Bishop G.W.H. Knight-Bruce.

? Lidden.

Bishop D. Mackenzie.

Bishop W.K. Macrorie.

Bishop S.T. Nevill(Dunedin).

C.W.H. Reynolds.

W.A. Robinson.

A.H. Sinclair.

J.W. Stenson.

J.E. Stocks.

D. Tennant.

S. Todd.

Bishop A.B. Webb.

Bishop T.E. Welby.

Subjects:

Oath of canonical obedience taken by colonial bishops; Bp.of New Zealand, asks what should happen about the oath of obedience in a church where there is no metropolitan but an elected primate.

Comments on the suitability of various clergy to be bishop of Bloemfontein.

Investment of the Bishopric Endowment Fund.

Complaint that one of Bishop Webb's clergy conducted a bigamous marriage in the Diamond Fields, although warned of a previous carriage.

Request for holp to raise funds for a new hospital at Wepener.

Approval of the South African bishops for the new bishop to be appointed by a delegation of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bisheps of Edinburgh and Truro.

Chieftainship at Thaba 'Nchu submitted to the arhitration of President Brand.

Request by J. Douglas, 1885, to visit England and explain the true state of affairs in the diocese.

Canon Crisp's report on the translation of the Bible and.

Prayer Book into Sechuona.

Finances of the diocese perilous, mainly due to debts incurred by thc Sisterhood, which makes appointment of a new bishop difficult.

Account of mission work in Basutoland.

Disturbance in Synod of 1887 over finance.

Bishops' assent to postponement of provincial synod to 1891.

Mission work in Mashonaland and the need for a bishopric there.

Suggested division of Kimberley from Bloemfontein.

Subject.

Consecration of Missionary Bishops and the question of the Bishop of the Orange River Colony being consecrated in Scotland, from which arises the problem of taking the oath of obedience to both Canterbury and Cape Town.

The general question is one of Letters Patent and the colonial church. Archbishop Tait agrees to consecrate Bishop Bousfield(Pretoria) and administer the oath of obedience to Cape Town in the course of the seryice.

MS notes on the Synod of Dort.

MS resolutions by the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church, 1871.

Correspondence between the clergy and bishops of the C.P.S.A. and the clergy of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Correspondents:

Bishop H. Cotterill.

P.E. Faure.

Bishop R. Gray.

A. Murray.

W. Robertson.

Bishop T.E. Welby.

Bishop T.E. Wilkinson.

P.H. Williams.

Subject:

Proposed union between the two churches.