CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2590, 26 April 1877, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Wednesday. The Eev Mr Carlyon, incumbent of the Kaiapoi Episcopalian Church, is "still in hot water respecting Eitualistic practices. At the last meeting of the Vestry, the following resolutions, were proposed:— " That the churchwardens apply to the Bishop for a faculty to remove from the church at Kaiapoi the following articles (the nse of which has been declared by the highest ecclesiastical courts in England to be illegal), namely, all candles and candlesticks not necessary for the efficient lighting of the church, vases, table covers (except such as are pro? vided by the Vestiy), crosses, super altar candles, &c.; and that the Bishop be requested to inhibit the continuance of all processions, with or without crosses, colored stoles, banners, bowing to the communion table, and the employment of one or more acolytes within the communion rails; which in the opinion of; this Vestry, are not only illegal, but highly repugnant to a very large majority of the parishioners." "That, in the opinion of this Vestry, the sermon delivered by the incumbent in defence of the Eev Mr Tooth, now under punishment for contempt of the laws of England, was not only uncalled for but disloyal, and that the churchwardens report it to the Bishop."—The Eev Mr Carlyon refused to put both motions, and the meeting soon after terminated.—-Other steps will probably be taken in the matter.

(FBOM OUB OWN COBBESPONDENT.)