NEWS OF THE DAY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 323, 25 June 1875, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Artillery Ball—The ball given by the Christchurch battery of Artillery last eveniug was well attended, and passed off successfully. Postal.—On and after Ist July proximo, the post-office known at present as Upper Rangitata, will be designated Mount Peel, and Lower Rangitata will become Rangitata. Racecourse and Southbridge Railway.—We are informed that the day for the opening of this line has been postponed from the 15th to the 20th July, on account of the midwinter show being held on the former date. Kaiapoi—The Trains.—Since the issue of the last new time-table the trains are not timed to arrive and depart at Kaiapoi, and the consequence is that the travelling public there suffer some considerable inconvenience. As it is said that on an average from 300 to 400 passengers leave and arrive there weekly, surely the town is important enough to be placed on the list of timed stations. Leithfield Licensing Court.—At an adjourned sitting of the annual Licensing Court for the granting of certificates for public house licenses, held on Wednesday, the commissioners present were C. Whitefoord, Esq, R.M. (chairman), H. Mcllraith, W. C. Fendall, and G. W. Mcßae, Esqs. The application in the case of the Weka Pass hotel was declared to have fallen through in consequence of no one appearing for the same. The Fakir of Oolu.—The Theatre Royal was crowded to excess last evening, when Dr Sylvester repeated his very enjoyable entertainment. The AnoetOß, the entranced lady, and last, but by no means least, the beautiful fairy fountain, were warmly applauded, and were as successfully performed as on former occasions. On Saturday next a mid-day performance will be given, and on Monday the doctor will introduce somp new illusions. The Primitive Methodist Church Revival services have been held during the past few days in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church. Monday, the 14th instant, was observed as a fast day by the various churches throughout the Canterbury circuits. Since then special revival services, which have been well attended, have been held every evening at seven o'clock in the Primitive Methodist Church, Cambridge terrace, Christchurch. The quarterly meeting was held a few days since, and was well attended by the ministers and representatives of the different churches. In the evening of the day on which the quarterly meeting took place a public meeting was held, when several addresses were delivered. The number ol attendants at the Primitive Methodist places of worship throughout the province is increasing. A new church has just been opened at East Malvern, and a piece of land as a site for a churc 1 ) at Ashbuiton has been procured. 3ites nave also been offered for the erection of churches at the Styx and at Bingsland.

Chkistchurch East Educational District, —The usual meeting of the committee of the Christchurch East Educational district, was held last evening, in the verctry of St John's Church. Present—Rev W. j. Habens, Rev H. 0. M. Watson, Messrs Dymock, Jameson, Kirk, Mitchell, and Packer. In the absence of the chairman, Mr Dymock was voted to the chair. Leave of absence for the night was granted to Mr R. D. Thomas. A letter was read from the chairman, Mr W. H.WynnWilliams, resigning his seat as a member of the committee. It was resolved unanimously that the resignation be accepted, with great regret, and that the thanks of the committee be given to Mr Wynn Williams for the valuable and efficient services he had rendered as a chairman and member of the committee. On the motion of the Rev H. C. M. Watson, seconded by Mr Packer, the Rev W. J. Habens, 8.A., was unanimously electpd chairman. The committee then proceeded to fill up the vacancy occasioned by Mr Williams's resignation, and on the motion of Rev W. J. Habens, seconded by Mr Jameson, it was unanimously resolved that Mr Hy Thompson, of the firm of Messrs Coates and Co be chosen to fill the vacancy. A letter was read from Mr H. T. Hill accepting the post of second master of the Central school in Gloucester street, an application was read from Mr C. J. Sale, requesting that his name might be put upon the list of applicants for employment. The secretary was instructed to inform Mr Sale that the committee intend to advertise for candidates for future appointments. Mr Mitchell reported that the footpath on the South Town belt leading to the school was impassable. The South Town belt sub-com-mittee were requested to communicate with the City Council, with the view of the footpath being rendered fit for the passage of the children as soon as possible. It was decided to request Mr B. W. Mountfort to have plans of the furniture for the Central school ready by the next meeting of the committee. On the motion of the Rev H. C, M. Watson, soconded by Mr Jameson, it was resolved—- " That the chairman, with Messrs Dymock form a sub-committee to take the necessary steps to promote the erection of a foot-bridge over the Avon, near the East belt." After passing some accounts the committee adjourned.

Terras used to be rather wild in religious matters. A new church was opened for Episcopalian service, and was packed with backwoodsmen. The clergyman entered in a surplice. As he passed along they gave expression to their curiosity by remarks and interrogatories of the most singular character. For example, one man asked another, " What in thunder's that there kivrin the parson's got on?" To which his neighbour replied, " Waal, now, uncle Abb, that thar's the great-grand-daddy of all the shirts, sure's yer borned!"

The Ultramontane journals which undertake the defence of the Hope's last Encyclical lettsr have no difficulty, says the Pall Mall Gazette, in showing that his declaration of nullity against the new German Church and State laws, so far from being a new and unheard'of thing, is a strict adherence to the regular line of policy followed in such matters both by himself and his immediate predecessors at the Vatican. Thus, Pope Pius VI., in a famous Bull, " Charitas," of April 13th, 1791. rejected publicly the then new civil constitution of France in so far as it aff?cted the future number of Bishops, and placed the choice of all prelates and parish priesta in the handifrolLcertain electors Gregory XVI, forty jemt since, did the same as regards Portugal and the meesures tt-ken by Don Pedro for p'tttt'ag down

monastic orders and appropriating their property. His Bull " Cum pro pastorali" expressly declared any such acts of the Portuguese State to be null and void, in the very words recently applied to Germany. The same Pope in the following year used a similar measure, couched in identical wording, in a letter addressed to the Catholics of Switzerland, in consequence of an alteration insisted on in the relations between Church and State by the then authorities of the Federation. And in 1841 he launched a like judgment, couched in an allocution, against the measures taken by the Liberals of Spain to despoil the Church of that kingdom of its wealth. As to the present Pope, that he was not influenced in this matter by any personal feeling against Germany is sufficiently apparent, according to his advocates in the press, from his allocution of June, 1868, in which he condemned in the severest terms the new Constitutional Laws of Austria.