LYTTELTON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 663, 10 December 1851, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

(From the Lyttelton Times, Nov. 28.) His Lordship the Bishop of New Zealand entered our port on Tuesday morning, in the Mission Schooner Border Maid. He has since been actively pursuing the various objects of his visit to this settlement. It is gratifying to learn that on a personal examination of the Schools, his Lordship has expressed himself much pleased with the manner in which the important work of education has been carried on here. On Friday morning a full service was held in the Church at Lyttelton, with the administration of the holy Communion. On Sunday next the Bishop will conduct a Maori Service at Lyttelton, commencing at nine o’clock, a.m. The confirmation will take place at half-past ten, after which the usual morning service will fellow, and the Bishop will preach on behalf of the Australasian Missions. The rite of confirmation will be administered at Christchurch on Sunday afternoon. His Lordship takes his departure, we hear, on Monday. The projected meeting ou Tuesday last to take steps for celebrating the anniversary of the settlement proved a failure, for want of an ~adequate attendance. We suppose this was owing, amongst one class to the coming of the Bishop, and in another, to the business produced by the arrival of several deeply laden vessels. A glance at this week’s shipping list will fully explain it.