GRAY

saying that the Archdeacon of Grahams Town in a recent letter... states that in his visitation (always performed on foot), he found at a village called (after Sir H. Smith) Smithfield, in the country called the Sovereignty... the inhabitants holding Divine Service read by the Magistrate of the District... every Lord's Day, and while he was there they put down their names as subscribers to a Church, to the amount of £300, and to the maintenance of a Clergyman to the amount of £65. Masons offered to lay 20,000 bricks gratuitously. Carpenters to give their services gratuitously. And the people undertook to send a wagon to Port Elizabeth... nearly 300 miles, to bring their Clergyman up when he should arrive, but Grey is grieved... that being personally responsible for... nearly £5000 a year with uncertain and fluctuating subscriptions, he could not at present send out a Clergyman without running the risk of not being able to maintain him, and thereby hazarding his whole work... and doing a moral wrong, an unmarried Clergyman would require £150 and a married not less than £200, 4 sides 4to, no place, no date, circa