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aware that the Cathedral here was, to the extent of two-thirds of its actual cost, created at Government expense, and all considerable sums necessary for keeping up or enlarging the fabric have been shared in the same proportion. The Trustees of course recognise the fact that it has been decided to terminate this state of things, but still, the time fixed for such termination not having yet arrived they do not think the Government would wish to anticipate it by leaving the trustees unaided
in the most serious difficulty they have ever had to encounter. Never before, except when the roof of the Church was condemned as unsafe from dry rot and white ants, have the Trustees found themselves called upon to provide for so large an expenditure. In the case of the roof the Secretary of State at once allowed the repairs to be made at the expense of the Colony. As regards the present case the trustees perhaps can scarcely hope for an application of the old two-thirds rule, an organ not being altogether a necessity, though it is very unusual to see so large a Church without one; still they do venture to hope for some assistance before their connection with the Government is finally
terminated.