CHURCH PROPERTY TRUSTEES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 241, 21 February 1855, Page 3

CHURCH PROPERTY TRUSTEES.

The following amendment was proposed by Mr:.; Hamilton at the meeting of Church Property Trustees held at Lyttelton on the 25th of January. j The Trustees, after considering the resolutions adopted :by.'certain.,meetings. Jield at LytleUon and Kaiapoi, respecting the bye-lawi for the election of Trustees, and the reasons now stated on the part of those calling tbe [ present meeting for dissenting from those byelaws, Resolve as follows : i ;L That, although it would, have been desi--1 rablethat public notice should have been given I ofthe adjourned meeting of the Trustees, at I which the byelaws for bringing into action the (elective machinery of the Church Property ' Trust Ordinance were finally adopted, and although the Trustees regret thai such notice was not given, yet as all the requirements of the Ordinance were fulfilled in the adoption of such byehiws, they are strictly legal and binding on the Trustees. 2. The Trustees are at the same lime satisfied that in omitting to give such public notice of the adjourned meeting, there was uo intention on the part of any of llieir body to evade ibe fullest consideration of tbe bye-laws proposed ; bill it was assumed that all the trustees who.-'.we're.interested, in the proceedings were fully acquainted with the fact that the bye-laws ' were • to be submitted to the Trustees at the adjourned meeting of the 7th of December. 3. The Trustees desire to record their opinion that the existing division of the Province into parishas is not satisfactory as a permanent arrangement: but, pending the appointment of the cleigy by ecclesiastical authority to the incumbencies of the several districts separately, they consider it to be. as a temporary arrangement, the best which can be made. 4. The Trustees further considering- lhat it is desirable that time should be allowed for tbe ■members of the Church at Lyttelton and Kaiapoi to exercise the privilege of electing lay trustees, which they have omitted to do within tho lime allowed by tbe present byelaws, resolve thai the following byelaw be adopted — '.tjyulaw, No. IX. Whereas by the lllvd .byelaw adopted by the Church Trustees for regulating tbe election and Humiliation of such Trustees it is provided, that for toe first annual election of lay Trustees tbe delherv of the votes shall lake place on the 22nd, 20rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th days of January, and the declaration of the election ou the 2yth day of that month ; and Whereas it is further provided that (byelaw IV.) any person qualified according to,tlie piotisions of the Ordinance lo vote at the election of lay trustees, may al any limo, being* not less than IS days before the day of. declaration of election, by letter addressed to ll>e Incumbent of any parish propose himself-or any other duly qualified person to be a candi-oife for the office of lay t.ruMoe for such parish ; And Whereas no person has been proposed, for th'v office oflay trustee for the parishes of I.ytteitoiv and Kaiapoi, and it is desirable that the time for the delivery of the votes for tho election of lay trustees for those parishes should be extended in order to allow

an election to take place accordingly, the following bvelaw is hereby adopted:— The delivery of the votes for the first annual election of lay .'.trustee's for" the parishes of Lyttelton and Kaiapoi shall take place on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th days of February next, and the declaration of the election on the 26th of February. The following byelaw was also subsequently adopted by the meeting. BTELAW, NO. X. ■•"■'' If the incumbent of any parish shall refuse or omit to take part in the election of Trustees, the Chairman of the Board may nominate some member of the Church to act in the stead Of such, incumbent; and such person so nominated shall, as far as lies in his power, give all such notices, and perform all such other acts as by these byelaws are required to be performed by such incumbent. And any election wbich shall take place under such circumstances shall not be invalid, because tbe person acting in the stead of such incumbent shall, in the execution of. the duties required of him, : be unable for want of time to comply strictly with the provisions of these byelaws. ■'■■"■''-'••'..

Ps The following extract from a private letter from Capt. Drury of the Pandora lo His Honor the Superintendent is published for general information :— " I send you lat. and long, of' Snares.' They are laid down 20 miles too far west in existing charts, but correct in latitude. We found the eastern and largest island 1/4 miles east and west, and 470 feet high. The whole group about 5 miles ; deep water, and no daugers but what are well above water. The south Trap is above water in three places about 7 feet high. Btbon Dkxjry." Latitude. Longitude. The Snares (S. W. point of) 48<> 06 435. 1650 30 08E. South Trap 470 33 00S. 167° 55 00E.

Bieth.—At Lyttelton, on the 19th inst., the wife of Mr. McClutchy, of a son. Ma_hied.—At Lyttelton, on Saturday, the 17ih inst., by tbe Rev. B. W. Dudley, M. A., Michael Moorhouse, Esq., of Notiingley, to Alice, 2nd surviving daughter of Thomas Pearson, Esq., of Howden, Yorkshire.