ECCLESIASTICAL AND EDUCATION ARRANGEMENTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 585, 12 March 1851, Page 2

ECCLESIASTICAL AND EDUCATION ARRANGEMENTS.

[From the Lyttelton Times, March !•] The Lord Bishop of New Zealand aodfe Bishop Designate of Lyttelton, in cott® with the other resident clergy, were most!® xiouslv engaged, during his Lordship’sß| at the settlement, in consulting for the fulsg well-being of the new diocese considereofl pecially in its relation u> the rest of ihef'g vince of Australasia. ' It was impossible to do more at prtq| than to make temporary provision for tlit® supply of religious ordinances to the nw tants' of the Canterbury Settlement, and® such educational institutions, as the pec® ary means at present at the disposalolg Agent of the Canterbury Association admit. I It was determined to commence an® raentary and commercial school at church, as soon as possible, for both bop® girls. The want of such an institution® gins to be greatly felt on the plains. 1 Mr. Cridland, the architect, has ah® furnished designs for a large, tenip c, 'g wooden building, to be used both as a st '§ and a church; a portion of the eastern® being separated from all common uses, j| shut in by drapery during school » It will probably be felt as a disappo' 11 ®® by some persons, that the senior dep atl ®l of the college cannot at once be at Christchurch, or at some place in bourhood of the future capital* found to be impossible ; first for necessary accommodation, (a wunt temporarily supplied at Lyttelton, Iff pie adaptation of a portion of the k®'’l Barracks;) and secondly, because I J| no funds available for the erection o-r | buildings. I As soon as the Bishop England, his best and persevering e be applied to the collection of l un 8 | J

great purpose. Meanwhile, Mr. Cridland lias prepared a series of designs, embodying the economical principles and arrangements for discipline, which were contemplated in the drawings brought by the Bishop Designate from London. Mr. Cridland’s designs are, ' in other respects, adapted to the building materials available in the colony. The Bishop Designate entertains, we believe, the confident hope that he will be able to send from ■ England, by monthly instalments, a sum suf- ■ ficient to erect all the parts of the college ne- • cessary for the full and efficient working of ' its discipline and scheme of general instruc- > tion, should the funds of the Canterbury Association derived from land sales be found ini sufficient for that object after providing for E 1« » 1-vJI »♦i zi O nl»-rsr»rl«» ■ *>■«•••• — J 'A K I*l » I jiauiuMvo uiivauj luuuixcu, xviean wane, tne |npper department opens at Lyttelton with (four pupils, and with the immediate prospect of several additions from the other settlements lof New Zealand. Assuming that the college I buildings are commenced out of the first funds gderived from the above sources, and are ready ■for occupation by the time ths Bishop De|signate returns to the colony ; and that the testates attached to the scholarships, for which |iie has already procured funds in England, arc at that time sufficiently productive, he Kbronoses to hold examinations in the Greek and*Latin languages, and in Mathematics ; at girhich, as we are informed, any person being member of the Church of England, and Svhose age does not exceed twenty-one years, Bnay compete. The successful candidate will enter upon the enjoyment of any which may be derived f<om the jfoundations referred to. j The following are the foundations at preRent: —I. The Somes Scholarship. In the lexamination for this scholarship, a preference gwill be given to the next of kin of the founder, |Mrs. Maria Somes. It is endowed with fifty [acres of rural land, and one quarter of an jicre section in the Port town of Lyttelton. | 2. The Rowley Scholarship, of fifty rural (arres, and one town section at Christchurch. | 3. The Charles Buller Scholarship ; endowed with one hundred acres of rural land ; and two town sections at Christchurch. 4. The Hulsean Chichele Professorship of History, at present vacant. There is reason to hope that a gentleman in England distinguished for his talents and learning may be persuaded to accept it. Meanwhile the Bishop Designate, acting upon the expressed wishes of the munificent founder, (Edward Hulse,vEsq., M.A., Fellow of All Souls’ X’ollege, Oxford,) that the attention of tha gt'rofessor should be called, in the terms of She trust-deed, to the Reformation, and the Kperiod immediately preceding it, proposes to present a prize of books, to the value of not Hess than five guineas, to the author of an fclngli.-h Historical Essay, founded on the folgowing passage, selected from the Colloquies g)f Erasmus:—

| “ Exultat Christianus Danorum rex, pins Evangelii fautor: Franciscus Galliarum rex tiospes est Hispaniarum, nescio quatn ex ipsius Bnimi sententia, vir certe dignus meliore for[una: Carolus molitur monarchse proferre popiaeria: Ferdinandus rerum suarum satagit in Jermania: balimia pecuniarum urget aulas mnes: periculosos motus coercitant agricolae, lec tot stragibus ab institute deterrentur; pojulus mediator anarchium; periculosis factionbus collabitur ecclesiae domus: hinc atque inc distrahitur ilia Jesu tunica inconsulitis.” -Erasmi Colloquia Puerpera. The Bishop Designate also offers to the Indents of the College, two ?rizes of books, ) the value of five -guineas each, for the two est poems, one in English and one in Latin, n the voyage of the five ships, containing ie founders of the Canterbury settlement, nd on the foundation of the colony itself; lese poems to be recited at the opening of lie College. Full particulars relative to the xaminations and prizes here mentioned may e obtained on application to the Rev. H. acobs, of Port Lyttelton, the classical Proissor and Tutor. It would be wrong to conclude these relarks without formally recording the first onfirmalion that has taken place in our new plony. The Lord Bishop of New Zealand fonfirmed twelve young persons in the temporary church at Lyttelton, on Wednesday, jhe 19th instant. The building was filled with I most attentive and devotional auditory. A |pirit of deep earnestness seemed to pervade |he whole assembly; and furnished the omen Shat ah» --*.l - 1 f. _ i. wui uuuxvii oEiutniieiH is iiereaner id ue |he home of a religious and high-minded comfcunity. I The present number of children in the commercial school at Lyttelton is fifty-one; in the Children's department of the Grammar school, l lx ; in the senior department, four. B Sunday last was set apart as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the safe arrival |f the five ships containing the founders and fcihers of the Canterbury settlement. The l°ly communion was administered in the tem|°rary church at Lyttelton. The morning ■ e rvifte was preached by the Bishop Designate, land that in the evening by the Rev. W. Apporpriate services were held

at Christchurch and at Sumner. The whole of the collections amounted to about £25. These monies will be devoted to the spiritual instruction of the Maories.