The Church in the Colonies Author:Church General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: DEPARTURE FROM THE WAIMATE. JOURNAL THE BISHOP'S VISITATION TOUR, From July, 1842, to Jamuary, 1843 : fiitrarteH from Utters to fiis family in 12nfllatrtr. Letter i. WRITTEN DURING TUB VOYAGE KROSC AUCKLAND TO NELSON. FROM THE WAIMATE TO AUCKLAND. July 5 to July 29,1842. On Tuesday, the 5th of July, having left'Mr. and Mrs. Dudley, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Nihill, and Mr. Fisher with Mrs. Selwyn, in the College at the Waimate, I sailed out of the Paihia harbour in the Tomatin, at 10 P. m., and on the following Thursday reached Auckland, where I bad the gratification of selecting sites for an additional cemetery, for another church, and also for a school-house. The Church has now secured to it in Auckland two burial-grounds, of eight acres each, and two sites for churches, on two of the three hills on which the town will stand. I have also selected sites for parsonage houses, contiguous to the churches and burial-grounds. Thetemporary school-house was nearly finished before I left. Sunday, July 10. -- Preached at the Court-house, at present used for Divine Worship. You may, perhaps, see this sermon, as I was induced to print it, in order to point out the course of proceeding I wished to be adopted in collections at church. In the afternoon I went to Okahu, a native village, three miles from Auckland. Mr. Reay, of the Church Missionary Society, read prayers, and I preached. July 12. -- Walked to Windsor, a suburban village, four miles from Auckland. Called upon the principal inhabitants, in answer to an address presented to me by them ; and, in accordance with their request, selected a site for a church....« less