a dog-cart of his own make, which he called the “circulating medium.” It was original in its design, and possessed a pair of enormous wheels, and was drawn by two horses harnessed tandem. This was the famous chariot which was afterwards celebrated as the pioneer of wheel traffic over the Sumner Road. On his arrival in Christchurch, the Bishop was welcomed by Dean Jacobs, then Headmaster of Christ’s College, with the epigrammatic greeting “Tandem venisti, my lord.”
On the following day, Christmas Day, the Bishop was installed at St. Michael’s Church, which thenceforward became the pro-Cathedral. Bishop Selwyn was present, but could take no part in the proceedings, because it was found that the Letters Patent had been made out in a form placing the new Bishop under the authority of the Bishop of Sydney. The necessary documents were read by Mr. (afterwards Judge) Gresson.
With the installation of its Bishop, Christchurch became an episcopal See under English letters patent, and therefore entitled to rank as a city, a distinction which it afterwards shared with Nelson, the only other New Zealand See so constituted. Bishop Selwyn, who had ceased to be the Bishop of the Diocese preached affectionate farewell sermons to paheka and Maori congregations, and early in January sailed for the Chatham Islands. An address of welcome from the members of the Church of England was presented to Bishop Harper by the Superintendent (December 30}, and the opportunity was taken to pass resolutions praying Her Majesty the Queen, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, that New Zealand should be constituted a separate ecclesiastical province, and that the Primacy should be “migratory”—not stationary. The desires of the meeting were fulfilled—New Zealand was constituted a separate ecclesiastical province, and by the constitution of the Church of England in New Zealand as finally agreed upon, it was left to the General Synod to frame regulations for the election of the Primate. It
