Melbourne Synod Papers: 1894 - 1919

BOX 546
• Minute Book of the Diocesan Synod Melbourne: 24 September 1894 - 7 October 1919 (volume 4) (Strong Room)

- Twelfth Assembly 1894 second session ( Synod 1894 ) ( Government Gazette September 7 1894 ) Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1894  -1898 at the back of that year within the Yearbook.
Monday September 24 1894 Chapter House Cathedral Buildings ... Pages 1 - 6 includes Registrar moved for leave to bring in a Bill to provide that Penal Establishments may be made extra-parochial; Tuesday September 25 1894 .. Pages 7 - 9, includes Penal Establishments Hospitals ... ; Wednesday September 26 1894 ... Pages 10 - 12; Thursday September 27 1894 ... Pages 13 - 19, Cathedral windows, Jubilee of the Church 1897; Friday September 28 1894 ... Pages 20 - 24, military chaplains, death of Canon Perks and Reverend J. Swindells.
- Twelfth Assembly 1895 third session ( Synod 1895 ) ( Government Gazette September 13 1895 ) Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1894  -1898 at the back of that year within the Yearbook.
Monday September 23 1895 Chapter House Cathedral Buildings ... Pages 25 - 29, includes death of Mrs Godfrey, Parish of Holy Trinity Coburg and Chaplaincy of the Pentridge Prison, Residence of the Dean, Hospitals and other such Public Institutions; Tuesday September 24 1895 ... Pages 30 - 35, proposed amendment of standing rules and orders,The late Dean Macartney, Residence of the Dean, Bill to provide that Hospitals etc. be made extra-parochial; Wednesday September 25 1895 ... Pages 36 - 43, Lord Bassey Governor of Victoria, address to be presented on his arrival; Thursday September 26 1895 ... Pages 44 - 50, massacre of missionaries to the Chinese, condolence to the widow of the late Revd. B. Rodda of Echuca and the late H. J. Mitchell of Kerang.

- Thirteenth Assembly 1896 first session ( Synod 1896 ) ( Notice in Government Gazette?  November 16 1896 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1894 - 1898 at the back of that year within the Yearbook.
Monday November 16 1896 Chapter House ... Pages 51 - 56; Tuesday November 17 1896 ... Pages 57 - 60, preferential system of voting, Armenian Christians, reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria; Wednesday November 18 1896 ... Pages 61 - 67, Information Paper elections; Thursday November 19 1896 ... Pages 68 - 75, death of Archdeacon Herring, Jubilee of the Church, provision for the poor of the Church, Report 1898 The Superannuation Fund, and the Clergy Widow and Orphans Fund Report, to suspend the operation of Act No. 11 1878 ...
- Thirteenth Assembly 1897 second session ( Synod 1897 ) ( Government Gazette ). Special session convened by the Bishop for the reconsideration of the report of the jubilee committee 19 November 1896
Tuesday February 23 1897 ... Pages 76 - 80.
- Thirteenth Assembly 1897 second ordinary session ( Synod 1897 ) ( Notice in Government Gazette) Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1894  -1898 at the back of that year within the Yearbook.
Monday September 27 1897 ... Pages 81 - 83; Tuesday September 28 1897 ... Pages 84 - 87, elections; Wednesday September 29 1897 ... Pages 88 - 89, condolence to Janet, Lady Clarke death of her late husband Sir W. J. Clarke; Thursday September 30 1897 ... Pages 90 - 95.
- Thirteenth Assembly 1898 third ordinary session ( Synod 1898 ) (  Notice in Government Gazette? ) Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1898 -1899 at the back of the Year Book.
Monday September 26 1898 ... Pages 96 - 99; Tuesday September 27 1898 ... Pages 100 - 104, death of the late Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone, proposed new diocese in Victoria, Committee be appointed to investigate all matters with reference to the property known as the Podmore Estate St Matthias, North Richmond, elections, the Czars proposal for disarmament; Wednesday September 28 1898 ... Pages 105 - 108; Thursday September 29 1898 ... Pages 109 - 111.  Prorogation.  Elections... Pages 112- 113.

- Fourteenth Assembly 1899 first session ( Synod 1899 ) (  Notice in Government Gazette? ) Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1899 -1900 at the back of the Year Book.
Monday September 25 1899 Chapter House, The Vicar General, the Very Reverend G. O. Vance D.D. Dean of Melbourne presided.... Pages 114 - 120, Resolution was passed ... this Assembly ... desires to express its sincere sympathy with him ( the Bishop ) in his severe and protracted illness... ; Tuesday September 26 1899 ... Pages 121 - 123, Mission to the Chinese, Proposed new diocese ... it is undesirable to divide the diocese without an adequate endowment; Elections ( insert ), Wednesday September 27 1899 ... Pages 124 - 127, Proposed new Diocese... conference to take place as soon as possible between representatives lay and clerical of the archdeaconries principally affected ... result be reported to this Assembly, Thursday September 28 1899 ... Pages 128 - 133, Proposed new Diocese - the proposed new Diocese be endowed with an income of 25 percent of the rents of St James lands, the Hastie bequest be handed over wholly to the new diocese..., Perry Hall ... committee be appointed to propose a scheme for the education of Stipendiary readers, elections.
- Fourteenth Assembly 1900 second ordinary session ( Synod 1900 ) ( Notice in Government Gazette? ) Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1900 -1901 at the back of the Year Book.
Monday October 1 1900 Chapter House The Right Reverend Field Flowers Goe D.D. Bishop of Melbourne presided ... Pages 134 - 136; Tuesday October 2 1900 Page 137; Wednesday October 3 1900 ... Pages 138 - 142, Bill to create a new diocese in Victoria, new Diocese motion for Sandhurst be omitted with the view of inserting the word Bendigo, Ecclesiastical offences, Powers of the General Synod; Thursday October 4 1900 … Pages 143 – 146, new Diocese boundaries and nominating Committee, elections; Friday October 5 1900 … Pages 147 – 152, New Diocese, Recovery of Bishop and illness of Mrs Goe, Death of Canon Handfield, Alleged Romanising movement in the Church of England; Monday October 8 1900 … Pages 153 – 156, proposed provident fund, Romanising movement; Tuesday October 9 1900 … Pages 157 – 160, proposed provident fund, housing of the working classes in Melbourne, marriage with deceased wife’s sister, Industrial training farm, Australian Board of Missions, “fair wage” clause in contracts, Hospitals and Charitable Institutions.
- Fourteenth Assembly 1901 third ordinary session ( Synod 1901 ) ( Government Gazette August 21 1901 ) Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1901 - 1902 at the back of the Year Book.
September 30 1901 Chapter House, The Reverend G. O. Vance D.D. Dean of Melbourne presided as Commissary of the Bishop ... Pages 161 - 164; October 1 1901 ... Pages 165 - 169, Intended resignation of the Bishop; Wednesday October 2 1901 ... Pages 170 - 177, death of Mrs Goodman, Church of England Girls Grammar School .. settled on Merton Hall formed by Miss Hensley and was then conducted by the Misses Morris... the school is carried on under supervision of a Provincial Council appointed by the Bishop in accordance with the advice of the Council of the Diocese, New Dioceses Bill; Thursday October 3 1901 ... Pages 178 - 180, Friday October 4 1901 ... Pages 181 - 185, Church Registers ... that Registers of Services, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Confirmees, Communicants and Parishioners shall be kept in every parish and parochial district, and that a strong vestry chest with lock and key, be provided for same.

- Fifteenth Assembly 1903 first session ( Synod 1903 ) ( Government Gazette October 7 1903 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1903 - 1904 pages 130 - 171. Right Reverend Henry Lowther Clarke D.D. First address to Synod
Monday October 12 1903 Chapter House under the presidency of the Right Reverend Henry Lowther Clarke D.D. Lord Bishop of Melbourne, his having first addressed the members of the Assembly in the Cathedral. This being the first session of the Church Assembly since his installation as fourth Bishop of Melbourne on March 3rd 1903 ... Pages 186 - 192; Tuesday October 13 1903 ... Pages 193 - 198, Bishop Moorhouse retirement from the See of Manchester; Wednesday October 14 1903 ... Pages 199 - 204, Dean Vance illness, committee established to investigate affairs in connection with the Podmore estate in the Parish of St Matthias Richmond, ventilation of the Chapter House, elections; Thursday October 15 1903 ... Pages 205 - 208.  Synod prorogued.
- Fifteenth Assembly 1904 second session ( Synod 1904 ) ( Government Gazette August 17 1904 )
Monday September 26 1904 Right Reverend Henry Lowther Clarke D.D. Second address to Synod  ... Pages 209 - 215; Tuesday September 27 1904 ... Pages 216 - 221, Church and Private Schools, Proposed Province of Victoria, elections; Wednesday September 28 1904 ... Pages 222 - 226, proposed taxing of Church property, White Australia; Thursday September 29 1904 ... Pages 227 - 230, New Diocese Act 1901, amend act 1877 no. 5  relating to Burial services.
- Fifteenth Assembly 1905 third session ( now known as the Diocesan Synod ) ( Synod 1905 ) Right Reverend Henry Lowther Clarke D.D. Third address to Synod ( Government Gazette November 1 1905 ).  Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1905 -1906 pages 84 - 130.
Monday November 20 1905 Chapter House President Dr Henry Lowther Clarke ... Pages 231 - 234, the late Mrs Grice; Tuesday November 21 1905 ... Pages 235 - 241, it is desirable that the various educational establishments carried on in the name of the church of England in the Diocese should be bought into closer relationship with the Synod ..., drink traffic, mission to seamen, elections; Wednesday November 22 1905 ... Pages 242 - 248; Thursday November 23 1905 ... Pages 249 - 250; Friday November 24 1905 ... Pages 251 - 255, White Cross League, Publication of proceedings of Synod in Year Book, elections. Synod prorogued.

Sixteenth Assembly 1906 first session ( now known as the Diocesan Synod ) ( Synod 1906 ) Dr Henry Lowther Clarke Fourth address to Synod ( Government Gazette September 1906 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1906 -1907 pages 94 - 144.
Monday October 1 1906 Chapter House under the presidency of the Right Reverend Henry Lowther D.D. Lord Bishop of Melbourne, his having first addressed the members of the Assembly in the Cathedral ... Pages 257 - 264, Appointment of Archbishops of Melbourne Bill, Method of electing Metropolitan, Schools and the Diocese of Melbourne; Tuesday October 2 1906 ... Pages 265 - 273, congregational singing, elections; Wednesday October 3 1906 ... Pages 274 - 284, the late Bishop Langley, the late Mrs Moorhouse; Thursday October 4 1906 ... Pages 285 - 287; Friday October 5 1906 ... Pages 288 - 294, elections, Diamond Jubilee of the Diocese, loyalty to His Majesty King Edward the seventh, voting of women at election of representatives etc. Synod prorogued.
Sixteenth Synod ( formerly known as Church Assembly ) 1907 second session ( Synod 1907 ) Dr Henry Lowther Clarke fifth address to Synod ( Government Gazette September 25 1907 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1907 - 1908 pages 94 - 137 plus Acts.
Monday September 30 1907 ... Pages 295 - 298; Tuesday October 1 1907 ... Pages 299 - 304, discussion and reply regarding appointing a Commissary and the power to convene a meeting of Synod in the Bishops absence, death of Judge Molesworth; Wednesday October 2 1907 ... Pages 305 - 306, meeting of Synod in 1908; Wednesday October 2 1907 ... Pages 305 - 306, discussion whether a commissary appointed by the Archbishop should convene a Synod during the absence of the Archbishop or the Archbishop before his departure to Europe, issue a mandate to convene the meeting; Thursday October 3 1907 ... Pages 307 - 313, death of Dr Torrance; Friday October 4 1907 ... Pages 314 - 316, elections. Synod prorogued.
Sixteenth Synod ( formerly known as Church Assembly ) 1908 third session  ( Synod 1908 ) Dr Henry Lowther Clarke sixth address to Synod, Address in 1908 was spoken and not published. ( Government Gazette ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1908 after page 90.
Monday December 7 1908 ... Pages 317 - 320, Case of Rev. C. H. Nash; Tuesday December 8 1908 ... Pages 321 - 325, bereavement of the Chancellor through the death of his wife, Geelong Grammar School Act, sympathy with Canon Godby and his family in the Canons severe illness, Pan Anglican Congress, Communion in Military camps, Aborigines in Australia, special committee be formed of Lay members of the Synod to consider the steady decline in the amounts collected for the Bishop of Melbourne Fund now known as the Home Mission Fund.
Wednesday December 9 1908 ... Pages 326 - 329, voting by women, honorary Lay Readers Association, case of the Rev. C. H. Nash; Thursday December 10 1908 ... Pages 330 - 335, Nash case, death of the Rev. H. B. Macartney, fitting memorial of the late Canon Potter, Nash case, the stipend of the Archbishop. Synod prorogued.

Seventeenth Synod 1909 first session ( now known as the Diocesan Synod ) ( Synod 1909 ) Dr Henry Lowther Clarke seventh address to Synod ( Government Gazette September 15 1909 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1909 after pages 108.
Monday October 4 1909 ... Pages 336 - 341; Tuesday October 5 1909 ... Pages 342 - 347, Girls Grammar School Bill to provide constitution, resignation of Mr. W. E. Morris to resign his office as Registrar; Wednesday October 6 1909 ... Pages 348 - 356, the late W. J. Bradshaw; Thursday October 7 1909 ... Pages 357 - 362, Debate about Church Trusts act of parliament empowering the Synod of any Diocese in the Province of Victoria, under proper safeguards, to declare new trusts ...  in respect of lands or moneys ... which have failed or become impracticable ..., land at Bulleen ( Doncaster ); Friday October 8... Pages 363 - 368,  Diocesan Book Society debate  ... should not sell any publications which are at variance with the authorised standards of faith and doctrine of the Church of England ..., Vestry Christ Church Geelong, Vestments and Ornaments, questions of ritual.

 Synod 1910 Dr Henry Lowther Clarke eighth address to Synod ( State Government Gazette August 31 1910 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1910 after page 121.
Monday September 26 1910  ... Pages 369 - 374, elections, election of one layman to be a member of the Council of the Girls Grammar School; Tuesday September 27 1910 ... Pages 375 - 380, Bill to amend Church Funds Act, income consolidated an Bishop of Melbournes Fund, discouragement of war, appreciation of life, character of the late Dean of Melbourne, Very Revd Dean Vance, sympathy to the family of the late Hon. F. S. Grimwade, the late Revd. George Sproule; Wednesday September 28 1910 ... Pages 381 - 385, Bill to amend Church Funds Act , Bill o repeal Trustees and Vestries Act 1885, sympathy to the family of the late Mr F. R. Godfrey late Canon of the Cathedral; Thursday September 29 1910 ... Pages 386 - 388, late Rev. Amos Brazier, death of Mrs Austin of Barwon Park, late Nr. N.. McGlashan, Trustees and Vestries Bill; Friday September 30 1910 ... Pages 389 - 393, Trustees and Vestries Bill, establishment of a College of Divinity by the state is at present inexpedient. Synod prorogued.

 Synod 1911  Dr Henry Lowther Clarke ninth address to Synod ( State Government Gazette September 6 1911 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1911 after page 127. Monday October 2 1911 ... Pages 394 - 396, death of Lord Northcote; Tuesday October 3 1911 ... Pages 397 - 400, Bill to amend Assemblies Act, Bill to amend Regulation of Election Act, congratulations to Canon Long and his election to the Bishopric of Bathurst, annual reporting of the proceedings of Archbishop in Council, the late F?. R. Godfrey; Wednesday October 4 1911 ... Pages 401 - 405, establishment of foundling hospital, Intermediate hospital should be founded; Thursday October 5 1911 ... Pages 406 - 407, votes of condolence to Mr John Griffiths in the sad bereavement that has befallen him and Mrs Gruber the widow of the late lay representative of St Bartholomews Burnley, appeal to raise funds for a chapel at Trinity College. Synod prorogued.

 Synod 1912 Dr Henry Lowther Clarke tenth address to Synod ( State Government Gazette September 18 1912 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1912 pages after page 132. Monday September 30 1912 ... Pages 409 - 412; Tuesday October 1 1912 .. Pages 413 - 415, H. L. Melbourne appointed Ven. Archdeacon Hindley to preside over this Synod during my absence from the debate upon the motion now before Synod, the Archbishop has not assented to the Bill to amend Section 83 of the Trustees and Vestries Act 1910, Podmore Estate report, retiring allowance for the Archbishop of Melbourne; Wednesday October 2 1912 ... Pages 416 - 419, telegram from the Revd the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, Bill to amend the Patronage Act, Portrait of the late Richard Grice presented to the Chapter of St Pauls Cathedral; Thursday October 3 1912 ... Pages 420 - 423, message to Presbyterian Assembly regarding the accomplishment of a union, sympathy to the families of the late Hon. T. C. Harwood, The Hon. W. H. Embling, Revds Canon Tucker, S. C. Kent and H. F. Scott, the use of the word Catholic, Lodge for Girls Friendly Society, Church Printing house be established, Foreign Missionaries, Stipends of Parochial Clergy; Friday October 4 1912 ... Pages 424 - 427, Trustees and Vestries Act 1910, Missionary work, Religious Instruction in State Schools, Mens Society, Social Questions Committee, Military Camps: Inclusion of Good Friday, Society for te Visitation of the Sick, Printing of Acts of Synod, Temperance work. Synod prorogued.

 Synod 1913  Dr Henry Lowther Clarke eleventh address to Synod ( State Government Gazette September 13 1913 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1913 after page 147. Acts pages 140 - 147.
Monday October 20 1913 ... Pages 428 - 430; Tuesday October 21 1913 ... Pages 431 - 434, late Reverend E. A. Crawford, appointed the Vicar General ( Archdeacon Hindley ) to preside over Synod in the absence of H. L. Melbourne. Wednesday October 22 1913 ... Pages 435 -  437, Bills to amend Acts, Assemblies, Hospitals, Trustees and Vestries Act, Patronage Act; October 23 1913 ... Pages 438 - 444, Archdeacon of Melbourne presided, Girls Friendly Society purchase of a new building, formation of Church of England Boys Society, the late Revd Henry James Howell, desirability of abolishing pew rents. Synod prorogued.

 Synod 1914 ( Dr Henry Lowther Clarke twelfth address to Synod ( State Government Gazette November 11 1914 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1914 after page 149, C. of E. Girls Grammar School Act, pages 148 - 149.
Monday November 30 1914 ... Pages 445 - 447; Tuesday December 1 1914 ... Pages 448 - 450, loyalty to the King .. deplores the necessity of the current war is fully convinced of the justice and righteousness of the cause..., Wednesday December 2 1914 ... Pages 451 - 452, Podmore estate, female electors; Thursday December 3 1914 ... Pages 453 - 455, death of Mr. Ernest Wood organist at St Pauls Cathedral and Mr William Cain, Boys Society welcome and approves its constitution; Friday December 4 1914 ... Pages 456 - 457. Synod prorogued.

 Synod 1915  Dr Henry Lowther Clarke thirteenth address to Synod ( State Government Gazette September 1 1915 ). Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1915 after page 155. Acts pages 153 - 155.
Monday October 4 1915... Pages 458 - 461; Tuesday October 5 1915 ... Pages 462 - 468, the late Bishop Moorhouse; Wednesday October 6 1915 ... Pages 469 - 472; Thursday October 7 1915 ... Pages 473 - 477. Synod prorogued.

Synod 1916  Dr Henry Lowther Clarke fourteenth address to Synod, notice of Synod July 13 1916. Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1916 after page 159. Acts pages 157 - 159.
Monday September 4 1916 ... Pages 478 - 480; Tuesday September 5 1916 ... Pages 481 - 483; Wednesday September 6 1916 ... Pages 484 - 486; Thursday September 7 1916 ... Pages 487 - 488, sympathy to the widow and family of the late Canon Gason. Synod prorogued.

Special Synod 1917 ( Special Synod 1917 ) Dr Henry Lowther Clarke, notice of Synod Government Gazette May 16 1917.
Tuesday May 22 1917 ... Page 489. Determinations of the General Synod of the Diocese in Australia and Tasmania were accepted.

Synod 1917  Dr Henry Lowther Clarke (Fifteenth address to Synod), notice of Synod September 1 1917. Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1917 after page 152.
Monday October 1 1917 ... Pages 490 - 492; Tuesday October 2 1917 ... Pages 493 - 495, Bill to amend the Constitution of Parishes of St James and St John Melbourne and to establish a special mission district within the boundaries of such parishes,  Bill to abolish pew rents; Wednesday October 3 1917 ... Pages 496 - 497; Thursday October 4 1917 ... Pages 498 - 500; Friday October 5 1917 .. Pages 501 - 504. Synod prorogued.

Synod 1918  Dr Henry Lowther Clarke (Sixteenth address to Synod, read by Reverend Canon Sutton), Government Gazette notice of Synod August 28 1918. Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1918 after page 171, Acts pages 158 - 171.
Monday October 7 1918 presidency of the Vicar General the Venerable Archdeacon Hindley B.D. Commissary for the Archbishop ... pages 505 - 510, death of Mrs Clarke; October 8 1918, Vicar General in the chair ... Pages 511 - 512, the late Revd Copland King pioneer missionary New Guinea; Wednesday October 9 1918 Vicar General in the chair ... Pages 513 - 514, in view of the inhuman treatment of the natives in the German colonies ... New Guinea ...  the earnest hope that these countries may not be allowed to revert to their former owners; Thursday October 10 1918 ... Pages 515 - 517;  Friday October 11 1918 ... Pages 518 - 520.

Synod 1919  Dr Henry Lowther Clarke (Sixteenth address to Synod), Government Gazette notice of Synod August 27 1919. Also in the Diocesan Year Book 1919 Acts pages 78 - 84, Seventeenth Address by Henry Lowther Clarke after page 84, pages 1 - 15 followed by Abstract of Proceedings.
Monday October 6 1919 ... Pages 521 - 524, Canon Langley nominated as Dean of Melbourne, Bill to constitute a special Mission District, to amend the constitution of the parishes of St James and St John, and to authorise the Constitution of other Mission Districts in the Diocese of Melbourne; Tuesday October 7 1919 ... Pages 525 - 528, late Alfred Deakin, resignation of the Archbishop 23rd November 1920 after Lambeth conference, late Canon Godby; Wednesday October 8 1919 ... Pages 529 - 533, house for neglected boys; Thursday October 9 1919 ... Pages 534 - 540, shelter for unmarried mothers.