[8] Successively translated to Zanzibar and then Northern Rhodesia, in 1916 he returned to England, firstly as Vicar of Lastingham and after that suffragan bishop of Grantham.
As Bishop of Grantham he was the only prelate that psychic researcher Harry Price was able to obtain to witness the opening of Joanna Southcott's box which Price in 1927 claimed to have come into possession of: it was found to contain only a few oddments and unimportant papers, among them a lottery ticket and a horse-pistol.
Price's claims to have had the true box have been disputed by historians and by followers of Southcott.
[11][12] A statue, carved in 1956 and placed on the west front of St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, commemorates Hine.
It depicts the bishop with a cat, that is playing with the tassel of Hine's robe.