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and Cambridge) contest on the Thames. The same two oarsmen, with two other Pembroke men, succeeded in carrying off the Visitors Plate at Henley Regatta. The result of Dr Carter s study at Oxford was that he graduated B.A. in 1873 and M.A. four years later, being ordained both deacon and priest during the interval. For four years he was curate at Christ Church, West Bromwich, and for two years, ending 1880, he occupied a similar position at Bakewell. It was about this time that the Eton boys established their Mission in the East End of London, and at their request Dr Carter assumed charge, continuing so to do (save for one short interval) for ten years. He was nominated Bishop of Zululand in 1891, and was consecrated in St Paul s Cathedral in September of the same year. Five years after wards, his old University conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D.

��During his visit to this country, on furlough, Bishop Carter accorded an interview on the subject of his work in far-off Zululand, and disclosed some interesting information. His See he described as extending over Zululand, Tongaland, Swaziland, and that portion of the Transvaal including the districts of Utrecht, Vryheid, Piet Relief and, in a more limited sense, the districts of Wakker-

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