The consecration of John Coleridge Patterson, aged 33, as "Missionary Bishop among the Western Islands of the South Pacific Ocean" (in actual fact the first Bishop of Melanesia) in St. Paul's Church, Auckland, on the 24th February 1861 by three bishops, from left to right, Abraham of Wellington, Selwyn and Hobhouse of Nelson. The man holding the book is Sir William Martin, the Chief Justice. The young boy kneeling by Patterson is from the islands.