#134Years

#LaborThings #AlwaysLabor #134Years #Auspol So happy for my indigenous comrades and Aboriginal people everywhere.

22 September 1891: opening of the fifth Session of the General Synod of the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania, in Sydney. This was the first General Synod chaired by William Saumarez Smith, the new Bishop of Sydney. #anglican #134years

3 September 1891: birth (Christchurch NZ) of Donald Haultain, who served at All Saints Pro-Cathedral as third Dean of Bendigo 1928-1932. #anglican #134years A Moore College- trained Kiwi who did missionary work in Africa, then served in Gippsland and Bendigo before returning to New Zealand.

26 August 1891: birth (Swansea, Wales) of Matthew Kenneth Jones, who served at St Peter's Cathedral as second Dean of Armidale 1949-1960. #anglican #134years AIF Chaplain; spent time in Changi as a POW. MBE 1947. Precentor at St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney and Principal of SACS 1934-1938.

10 August 1891: the Rev. Copland King and the Rev. Albert Maclaren land at Kieta Beach, near the Dogura Plateau, north coast of Milne Bay Province. Birth of the Anglican Mission in New Guinea! #anglican #134years

25 July 1891: birth (Newbury, Berkshire) of Wilfrid Bernard Belcher, fifth Bishop of North Queensland 1948-1952. #anglican #134years Awarded MC in 1918, served as a Bush Brother in his future diocese 1924-1929; also served before and after his Australian episcopate in South Africa.

25 July 1891: consecration of Canon Christopher George Barlow (1858-1915), of St James' Cathedral Townsville, at St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney, to succeed George Stanton (who preached the sermon, below) as second Bishop of North Queensland. #anglican #134years No.31 in the Australian episcopate.

How old? white Australia Policy old? This sort of simultaneously regressive, romantic thinking is nonsense. The ALP must respond to the reality of the world that confronts it. Not to do this in the interests of Australians would abrogation of its responsibilities #auspol #94Seats #134Years

12 May 1891: the Rt Revd George Henry Stanton (1835-1905), formerly Bishop of North Queensland, installed and enthroned at Christ Church Cathedral as third Bishop of Newcastle. #anglican #134years He opened Synod immediately after installation.

5 May 1891: the Rt Revd George Henry Stanton (1835-1905) resigns after 12 years as first Bishop of North Queensland, ahead of his translation to the See of Newcastle. #anglican #134years All he had asked for encouragement in his work was "an occasional pat on the back" 😆 (news item 1879)