INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 97, 26 April 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

__ _. . Hokitika, Thursday. Mr Gisborne has held meetings at several places throughout the Totara district, aad has been well received everywhere. Interests are a good deal divided, and the contest, it 13 generally supposed, will be a close one, unles3 one of the local candidates retires in Mr Gisborne'a favor, which is not probable. CHRrsTCmiHCH, Wednesday. The Rev Mr Carlyou, Incumbent of the Kaiapoi Episcopalian Church, is still in hofc water respecting ritualistic practices. At the last meeting of the vastryj the following resolutions were proposed : — " 1. That the churchwardens apply to the Biahop for a faculty to remove from the church at Kaiapoi the following articles (the use of which has been declared by the highest Ecclesiastical Courts in England to be illegal), namely .- All candles and candlesticks not necessary for the efficient lighting of the church, vases, table-covers (except such as are provided by the vestry), crosses, ratable or supra altar, banners, &c; and that the Bishop ba requested to inhibit the continuance of all processions with or without crosses, colored stoles, banners, bowing to the communiontable, and the employment of one or more acolytes within the communion-rails, which m the opinion of this vestry are not only illegal, but highly repagnant to a very large majority of the parishioners. 2. That in the opinion of this vestry the sermon delivered by the Incumbent in defence of the Rev Mr Tooth, now under punishment for contempt of the laws of England, was not only uncalled for, but disloyal, and that the churchwardens report it to the Bishop." Mr Carlyon refused to put both the motions, and the meeting soon after terminated. Other steps will probably be taken in the matter. Dunedin, Thursday. At a meeting of the Education Board held yesterday Professor Shand and Mr Macandrew Bpoke strongly of the necessity for specialising the educational reserves of Otago. Professor Shand said if this were nofc done the Government would deduct the revenue derived from the reserves from the sum voted for education in Otago. Mr Macandrew supported Professor Shand's tpmarks, and added that he had no doubt that Otago would be robbed of these reserves unless some change took place in the colonial policy.