RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 669, 11 September 1852, Page 2

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS OF AUCKLAND.

There is no object of equal importance in the estimation of many of the best class of intending- emigrants with the facilities which any district towards which their attention is turned may present for the religious and educational culture of their families. We willingly give a place in our columns to the following List of the Places of Worship, Public Schools &c, in Auckland and its Neighbourhood which, with the view of giving information on this subject, has been drawn up to be sent home by the Cresswell : —

Places of Worship in the District of Auckland. Auckland: — Church of England — St. Paul's, Princes-street ; St. Matthew's, riobson-street ; & St. Barnabas, Parncll. „ Church of Rome, — St. Patrick's, . Chapel-street. „ Presbyterian — Kirk, Waterloo (Quadrant. „ Wesleyan — First Chapel, Victoria Quadrant and High-street ; Second Chapel, Waterloo Quadrant. „ Independent — Chapel, High-street — Second Congregation worships in the Mechanics' Institute, Chancery-street. „ Primitive Methodist — Chapel, Ed-ward-street. Village of Epsom : — Episcopalian and Wesleyan Chapel. „ Remuera — Episcopalian Church. * „ Onehunga — Episcopalian Church, Roman Catholic and Wcsleyan Chapels. „ Panmure — Episcopalian Church & Roman Catholic Chapel. „ Howick — Episcopalian Church, Roman Catholic and Wcsleyan Chapels. „ Otaiiuiiu — Episcopalian Church. Public Schools. Auckland :— St. John's College, Bishops' Auckland. „ Wesleyan College and Seminary, Upper Queen-street. „ Ditto Day School, High-street. „ Two Episcopalian Day Schools, Hobson-street, &Eden Crescent. „ Roman Catholic Day School, Ilob-son-strcet. (Besides a number of Private Grammar Schools and Academies.) Day Schools in connexion with the several denominations are established at the Villages. Sabbath Schools have been opened in connexion with the several plnces of Worship in the City and Villages — which arc well attended by intelligent Teachers.

Native Schools. St. Stephen's (for Native Girls) under Superintendence of Rev. Mr. Kisslingand Mrs. Kissling. Three Kings (Wesley an) Superintended by ( Rev. A. Reid. Taknpuna (Roman Catholic) under the Superintendence of the Roman Catholic Bishop,

The following Reply has been received from the Government to a respectably signed application for the metalling, &c., of the short piece of road leading up from Queen-street into Highstreet, near the Post Office, the Webloyan and Independent Chapels, the Mechanics Institute, &c, from the present state of which the inhabitants of the West end of the Town and Upper Queenstreet experience great inconvenience in getting to these public buildings :— Colonial Secretary s Oftice, Auckland, Bth September, 3852. Gentlemen— Referring to your application reouestin o- that certain streets in the neighbourhood of^the We&lcyan and Independent Chapels, fee. might bo metalled, I am directed by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor to inform you that the Wardens of the Hnndred of Auckland, having been applied to on the subject, they state that, the public interest requires that at present no more of the available money arising from the sale of Crown Land, should be laid out in the town, so many improvements being required in the country, and they therefore object to the execution of this Avork for the present. 1 have the honour to be Gentlemen, Your very obedient servant, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. To the Gentlemen signing the Memorial.

"Sketcites of New Zealand." — We have seen a Prospectus issued by Messrs Dickinson, publishers to the Queen, 114, New Bond-street London, announcing: as shortly to bo published "The Manners, Customs, and Scenery of New Zealand, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and Loyalty Islands, By R. A. Oliver, Commander EvN. ; Dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness Prince Albert." The Prospectus states,—" Some faithful Sketches of the more favourable specimens of the Inhabitants of the interesting colony of New Zealand have long been wanted, whilst the other islands have been scarcely visited by any but the sandal wood traders. The Sketches of these Islands were made when the Author visited them in H. M. S. Fly, 1350, accompanying the Bishop of New Zealaud, in the Undine schooner, on a missionary tour. The Work is to range in size and character with "Robert's Spain," "Miss Eden's India," &c, and will be published in Four Parts, with appropriate Letter-press. Price One Guinea each Part, oy £1 17s. 6d. coloured." We have no doubt that Captain Oliver will perform the agreeable and useful task he has thus undertaken in a manner which will prove creditable and advantageous to this colony, as well as interesting and attractive to the large circle in England to which the work, recommended by his name and by the Royal patronage with which it is favoured, will be sure to find admission. It will be seen by advertisement in another column that Mr. John Williamson has been appointed agent for the publication in this Colony. Bay of Islands Election. — The election for a member of the Provincial Council to represent this district has terminated in the return of Mr. Clarke, — but by a much smaller majority than might have been anticipated from the state of the poll at Russell alone, which we published a few days since. The great "majority of the votes at Monganui and Ilokianga were for Mr. Busby. At the close the total numbers were,— Clarke, 51 ; Busby, 4G ; Waitford, L 3. Electoral Rolls. — From an examination of the Electoral Rolls for the City and Suburbs of Auckland (which have not yet been " published for general information" as required by the Ordinance) we find 339 freeholders, of £-50 value and upwards, for the Cit}', and 111 for the Suburbs; 42 leaseholders, of the annual value of £10 and upwards, in the City, and 8 in the Suburbs ; and 381 householders, of the annual value of £10 and upwards per annum, in the City, and 43, of the annual value of £5 and upwards per annum, in the Suburbs.