So great was the mistake that several leading articles lai been written on the subject of religious in struction, which articles he was sure would not have been written if what he had said had been correctly reported. No person outside could read those articles "without believing that he pro posed that the clergy of the Church of England should take precedence of ministers of all other denominations, and be permitted to go into the Go vernment Schools the first half hour of the school day. No person could read these articles without being con vinced that it was also proposed that ministers of .all denominations should go together, or one after the other — he did not know which — and examine all the children of the Church of England, Pres byterians, and others. He need not tell the members of that House that he never said anything of the sort. "What he did say — and he was quite sure all the mem bers of the Synod would bear him out — was this : That the clergy of the Church of England should be permitted to go into the Government Schools the first half hour on a working day ; but he added that he did not wish that permission to be con fined to the clergy of the Church of England. He added that as far as Dunedin was con cerned, he did not see what great diffi culty there- could be in the matter, what ever difficulty there might be as regarded the country. He mentioned the ease of the Middle District School, stating that he believed there were six or seven rooms, and that he did not see why one of those rooms could not be given up for half an hour. He never proposed that the Church of England should be granted this privilege to the exclusion of other re ligious bodies. The Bey. Mr Stanford thought it in judicious to complain that the Press, in reporting the proceedings, had not re ported certain remarks. If anything was reported that was incorrect, that would be a reasonable subject for complaint, but not what was omitted in a report ; and the Yen. Archdeacon's remarks were more in reference to omissions than anything else. SERMON. Mr Mankford moved " That the Rev. 