THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3703, 6 November 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1880.

Dubing the past few years we have been deeply grieved to notice, slowly growing with the progress of the colony, the seeds of those digraceful religious factional antipathies which annually occasion so much crime and loss of life in the Old Country. For the first five-and-twenty years of this colony's history such a thing as difference in religion, leading to strife was unknown, the early settlers having too much sense to allow such unseemly disputes to tarnish their fair name, and retard the progress of their adopted country. Gradually the insidious seeds of disunion hare been imported, and hare already attained proportions which lead us to fear the recurrence here of the painful scenes unhappily so common in the British Isles, and in some of the older colonies. Everyone* will remember the serious Orange disturbance* in Christchurch and 'iimaru last year, and the almost unanimous demand of public opinion throughout the colony that steps should be taken to prerent a recurrence of such scenes; but when the trouble was over nothing more was done. Now again we find from our telegrams yesterday and to-day that a grand Orange demonstration has been held in the South, but that fortunately no disturbances occurred, thanks to the good sense of the public. We are glad to hear that the latter restrained themselves from any violence, as they always consider such processions and demonstration! direct insults to themselves and to their religious professions. Not the slightest possible good can come from such demonstrations. Men of New Zealand; leave such' things on the other side of the Equator. In this country you will find plenty of objects on which to exercise your energies, without damning the fair fame and prosperity of the country with unseemly factional disputes.