Correspondence between the Bp.of Cape Town, the Abp.of Canterbury, clergy and churchwardens of Graaff Reinet.

Correspondents:

Bishop R. Cray.

J.D. Harding.

W. Long.

J. Randall.

Archbishop J.B. Sumner(Canterbury).

Bishop S. Wilberforce(Oxford).

Subjects:

Building of a new ehurch.

Opinion of Queen's advocate on tho powers of the Bp.of Cape Town.

The powers of archdeacons and bishops.

Deed of Trust for the Diocese of Adelaide, undated. Minutes of.

Proceedings of the Province of Australasia, Sydney, 1850.

Proceedings of the Conference of the Diocese of Adelaide, 1852.

Constitution for associating together as a Branch of the United Church in the Colony of New Zealand, agreed to at a Conference, Auckland, 1857.

Complimentary addresses to Bishop Cray from the children of Papendorp Church School, lay members and clergy of the diocese ef Cape Town, clergy of the Eastern Province and inhabitants of Bloemfontein and Rondebosch. (Amongst the signatures is that of Juana Smith, wife of Sir Harry Smith). Letters of thanks from Bishop Cray to the Dean of Cape Town and Archdeacon Welby of Ceorge, thanking them for the affectionate addresses sent by the clergy in Cape Town and Ceorge.

MS notes on the negotiations between the Rhenish Society and the C.P.S.A.

Letters to the Bishop and Dean of Cape Town Prom Rhenish missionaries.

Correspondents:

L.F. Esselen.

Bishop R. Gray.

C. Zahn.

Subject:

Union between the two churches.

Correspondents:

H.A. Douglas.

A. Wood Subject:

Character and work of the clergy in the Diocese of Cape Town and the need for teachers for the Kafir school.

Minutes of the Bishop of Natal upon the resolutions passed at the Conference of the Bishops of the Province of Cape Town, 1860.

Correspondents:

Sir E. Bulwer(Secretary of State for the Colonies).

Bishop J.W. Colenso(Natal).

Bishop R. Gray(Cape Town).

Archbishop J.B. Sumner(Canterbury).

Subject:

Necessity to send a Missionary Bishop to the territory of Chief Panda, noar Delagoa Bay and the question of whether.

the Bishop of Cape Town can consecrate such a bishop. Bishop Colenso gives his assent to Missionary Bishops as a temporary measure for Central Africa but declares that such bishops owe obedience to the consecrating metropolitan.

Rules for the foundaticn of a Fund to promote chureh work in Cape Town, 1857.

Correspondence between Bishop Gray and his clergy re stipends.

Sentence by Bishop Gray, withdrawing the licence of William Long and depriving him of his charge, 1861 March 6.

Correspondence between Bishop R. Gray of Cape Town, Rev. W. Long, Archbishop A.C. Tait of Cantorbury and Sir R. Phillimore.

Subjects:

Question of an appeal from the Bp.of Cape Town and to whom. The allied question of the status of the colonial church.

Charge against the Bishop of Natal, 1863 November 17, signed by H.A. Douglas, N.J. Merriman and H. Badnall and judgment given by Bishop Gray in his own handwriting, (116p) and reprinted in the Cape Argus, 1863 December 16.

Memorandum of sentence of deposition of the Bishop of Natal and sentence of excommunication in Bishop Gray's handwriting.

Memorandum on proceedings against the Bp.of Natal, signed T. Watermeyer.

Appointment of J. Green as Vicar-Ceneral and his warning to Bishop Colenso net to cxercise spiritual functions. Dr. Bleek's protest on behalf of Bishop Colenso.