New Zealand Spectator AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, January 10, 1852.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 672, 10 January 1852, Page 3

New Zealand Spectator AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, January 10, 1852.

The proceedings of the Meeting of Wednesday last, at the opening of the School at Thorndon, will be read by the Members and ' »CuuS o» the Church of England with very general interest. The building, the opening of which was the occasion of the Meeting, is the fisrt result of the attempt recently made ; ty the members of the Church of England in e ington to supply the blessings of a sound rehgious education to the children of their Communion, and we hope it will be our P easing duty, before the lapse of many months, to record the erection of a similar School at Te Aro, on the land granted by the Bishop of New Zealand, to supply the "ants of those dwelling in that neighbourhe proceedings with respect to a yrch Constitution were of an equally satisfactory character, a successful attempt ias een made to organize the Members of t e Chui eh in this district for the purpose its support and extension into one compact body with the power of regulating i eir own affairs, and we hope that the reso utions adopted • at last Wednesday’s

Meeting may be received with equal favour in the other Settlements in New Zealand, so that one uniform system of Church government may obtain throughout these Islands. This is the more necessary as we believe it is in contemplation to divide New Zealand into three dioceses, the Northern including Auckland and the North part of the Island, the Middle or central district including Wellington and the other settlements in Cook’s Strait, and the Southern or diocese of Lyttelton and the settlements in its neighbourhood. With the prospect of an extensive increase of the population by means of immigration.the necessity of some united and general effort adequately to supply the growing spiritual wants of the different settlements becomes more pressing, while the resolutions offer a simple and effective machinery for the collection and administration of funds for this purpose, and constitute an organized body capable of receiving the benefactions of those well wishers in England and elsewhere who may desire to contribute to the extension of the Church in New Zealand, and ensure the general application of those funds, instead of their being limited, as perhaps would otherwise be the case, to local purposes.