Catherine, was born to the Newnhams. At the time of writing (1959) she is living at Rothesay, N .B. The young couple removed

to Shediac in 1878. Bishop Binney saw them there soon after and reported:

It was pleasant to witness his happiness. The careworn anxious look of New London has passed away . . . The fact is, Mr. Newnham is a superior man, and would make his mark anywhere. The vacant mission of New London is supplied by the Rev. B. W. Dyer of Alberton and the Rev.1 J. W. Johnstone of Crapaud, once a month alter- nate y.

Mr. Dyer, a teacher for eighteen years with the Newfoundland School Society, a contemporary and friend of Mr. Meek, had begun a long and devoted ministry in Cascumpeque (Alberton) in 1859. In his journal he tells of a service which he held in the parish of New London, January 5, 1879. He preached at Kensington in the morning, then at New London, then at Irishtown. He stayed the night at William Profitt’s where parents and children were accus- tomed to family prayers. In April he came again, and was driven by James Carruthers over very bad roads from Kensington to Irishtown. After a meal at William Profitt’s he went on to New London and returned to this hospitable home after service. Then Thomas Millman drove him to Kensington where Mrs. Sims revived him with ginger tea. The Reverend A. Osborne of St. Paul’s, Char- lottetown, also conducted a service in May, 1879.

Thomas Blanchard Reagh, Principal of a Commercial School in Charlottetown, had been ordained deacon by Bishop Binney in 1878, previous to which he had assisted Archdeacon Read at Milton as lay reader. On July 25, 1879, he began an outstanding ministry of ten years in New London. He undertook no easy task as the stipend was low and the mission had gained the reputation of unwillingness to support a clergyman. At the beginning Kensington refused to pay anything, but the matter was soon cleared up and services were resumed there. Mr Reagh took the side of his people informing the

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