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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 324, 13 November 1875, Page 3

Ritualistic Observance. —At the annual meetingof the Canterbury Diocesan Synod which has just terminated its sittings at Christchurch, “The Rev. G. J. Cholmondeley asked whether the judgments of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on points of Ritual observance, to which high importance is attached by large parties in the Church of England, are judgments which the Church of the Province of New Zealand is bound to obey ? The President replied that the only answer he was able to give to the question was, that in the Ecclesiastical Province of New Zealand the General Synod alone had authority to retain, change, and abolish ceremonies or rites of the Church, ordained by man’s authority.” Discovery of Treasure at Buckingham Palace. —A somewhat singular discovery has just been made at Buckingham Palace. During some alterations, while the workmen were engaged in pulling down a wall, a large quantity of valuable gold and silver plate of about the time of George 111., and supposed to to be worth several thousand pounds, was discoveredin a plaee of concealment. The discovery has occasioned considerable interest among the officials of the Court.