I was overburdened with duties and in summer that I could scarcely perform my work and had to leave some undone.
In view of an application for 6 months from April next, I have requested the Bishop, who has authority over the other resident Clergy here, to advise me how to obtain a locum tenens; and his reply on two separate occasions was that as he can see it is so far simply impossible here.
On the last occasion of my taking leave, in 1886, I secured with great difficulty the services of a naval chaplain, but the Admiralty afterwards disapproved, and issued a Circular forbidding their Chaplains in every station to undertake any further responsibilities of the kind.
I am unable to afford the expense of a passage of a clergyman from England, otherwise I could, I believe, easily secure the services of one who is well known in the Colony, the Reverend Wonnacott, now in London. In a recent letter to me he expressed his desire to return here.
I have to ... W. Jennings,
J. Colonial Chaplain.
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