Gilbert White

Memorial.

Fund to be Launched.

From Our Oxen Correspondent.

Thursday Is., May 29.

THE Anglican “Quetta” Memorial Cathedral of All Souls’, erected after the tragic loss of the B.I. steamer “Quetta” in 1890 in com memoration of that sad event, is one of the first places which visitors seek when a ship arrives in Thursday Island. It contains numerous relics of the ill-fated steamer, including life buoys, riding light, porthole, copper ewer, etc., as well as objects from other wrecked vessels. The building, which is of concrete, is not yet completed and still lacks one bay of the nave, as well as tower, spire, and two porches.

At a meeting of the congregation re cently, presided over by the Lord Bishop of Carpentaria, with the Sub- Dean also present, a suggestion that the Cathedral be completed was dis cussed; and it was decided to organise to raise the necessary sum —£6,000 to £7,000 —and to complete the Church as a memorial to the late Bishop Gilbert White, the first bishop of the Diocese, who did such magnificent work in organising and establishing this far flung diocese of nearly 700,000 square miles of sea and land.

An appeal for the “Gilbert White Memorial Tower and Spire” will shortly be launched, and doubtless will meet with ready response, not only locally but from various parts of the world.