CHRISTCHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1682, 9 July 1875, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) * This day. Hump-backed Whale. A perfect specimen of a hump-backed whale, from Akaroa, 5 feet long, was received at the Museum yesterday. This addition to the Museum is particularly valuable, and. hitherto in all the collections of the hump-backed whale inhabiting the Australasian seas, the ear bone only is known "* the scientific world. y The New Cathedral. i_ "» a meeting of the Cathedral Guild last mgfit, it was resolved to hold a religious service inside the new cathedral wall on December 16, that being the anniversary of laying the foundation stone and the anni-

versary of the province.* The walls of th cathedral are not finished ar|d no portion o tho roof will be on by tl]e date stated. It was also resolved to present to the Bishop on the same occasion with » pastoral staff for the use of the See, and & crozier to him personally as Primate.

Strong Language re Education. A public meeting has, at last, been held to consider the educational question. The new education ordinance was universally condemned. One speaker went so far as to say the ordinance was most oppressive to the working man, and, rather than stand it, he would be one of the first to take his knapsack andibayonet, and shed his blood, rather than submit to it.