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Africa, your early experiences led you to make a representation for a sub-division of the Diocese to whom was that representation made ? &quot;

&quot; Yes ; the work grew so enormously, in Uganda especially, that it became utterly im possible for any one man to supervise it. In the first instance, I made the representation to the C.M.S., which agreed to provide a stipend for a new Bishop. With the consent of the Foreign Office, and on the nomination of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr Peel, the Secretary of the C.M.S. at Bombay, was in 1899 consecrated first Bishop of Mombasa.&quot;

&quot;And that represents the date of your trans lation to Uganda ? &quot;

&quot; Yes ; when the Diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa was divided, my work lay in the new Diocese of Uganda, to which I was translated. It it well to remember that it was the enormous extension of the work on the northern shores of the Victoria Nyanza which compelled this division of the former Diocese.&quot;

&quot; Are you confronted with the liquor traffic at Uganda ? &quot;

&quot;No; most happily. Since Great Britain and the Great Powers put their signatures to the Brussels Act, we can never have in Uganda that same terrible state of things which exists now along the West Coast. All spirituous liquors are for ever forbidden in those regions under that Act

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