(} G 67 OFFICIATING lIIljISTERS o ANT ER BUR Y. UlmER THE ~Ll.RRLl.GE ACT. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS FOR 1864. TUB colony of New Zealand and the Province of Canterbury have no history in common. The former UNITBD CHUBCH OP ESGLAND .L·D I REL.l.. ·D. eontains the latter geographically, but, in the eye of the historian of current events, Canterbury must appear Vicars- Gene,·al. an entity wholly apart and remote from the colony within whose boundaries it is to be found on the . Bi3lwp8:- The Very Reverend .T. Forest, .T. ~f'D nal ~e R~7ht Rev. George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop ~! 'D on a ld , ma The story of each for the past few years, including that of which we have now to write, must be of. ew uland W . .T• .T.P. O'Reilly, L. Parsby. a d, tolr~eparatelv. New Zealand would have her war, her native population, her gold fields, almost evcry. Clerg!! r-r-- The Hi~ht I v, Henry John Chitty H arp er thing on which her notoriety :ests, even though <;ante;bury ~id not exist withm.her territory. .on th e other , The. RC\'e:~nds Ottavi us Barsan ti. Simon Dart<Js Di hop of Chri tchurch ' band. the silent progres. which we have made 10 this Province, the works which we hav e flnished, begun, FranCIS DOlblCUX, J ean Bap tiste Cha t ai~n er J " p~jecled, Tht· (tight Uov. Charles .Tohn Abrahmn Bishop Che r~'ie r, D~ or even the difficulties und er which we labour, form matter for our own historians in no wa)" con­ of Welling-ton ' Claude Pu,go D'Akerman, Francis nected with the exciting topics ri.ing outside our borders, We do not sa)" that the gold which Otago has M.0~te, Patrl,ck Du hlg, H enry -Jam es F)'Iles Do­ Thc Hight Rev. Edmund Hobhousc Bishop (late ~r. reducedso largely within the past few years hasdone nothing 10 advance the malerial interests of Canter­ of"'eloon-) , miniek Gala s i , .To.epb Gara" el Antoine G ' hury. On the contrary, a portion of the wealth of the sister Province has poured across our borders, and T~e J~,-. Joseph Gregori, .Tohn xr, Grunn e Steph en H linn, HIght William Williams Bishop of Jame P. H oyne, Nivard .Tourd~n ' .Toseph L a ~ undoubledly hastened our prosperity. And no less true is it that the war in th e North, mismanaged and ·W'a,apu. ' procrastinatcd as it has been, wasteful of the resources of the colony, and fruitless of result, will bring before I~v Ph,i1ippe Aimo ~[ ar t in, Pierre ~iarIC ')! ic be~mb~ The Rig!!t . .Tohn Colcridge Patteson Bisho pbll~ Pa s ~: long injurious consequences even upon Canterbury. The cause and the effect arc there, but the one is of Mcl"nesm. ' p ) !ol'eau, )!IChacl D, O'liara! Stephen othe~; ne,t~l, P~ul , remotc from the the sequence of the eyent is.hardly perceptible, and the. agen.cy is wholly invisible ; Arch,IMcOIlR ._ J ames EUFene Pertuis, J ean Daptiste and even ifa connection may be traced, there is nothing to indicate any close relationship between Canterbury Yenerab!.cs :\. N. Drown, U:Govett, O. IIadfie ld Peti t J can! Etienne 1 eznnt, Anthon)" POillpallier nod the colon)"at large. So far is this the case that when, during th e past year, a temporary monetary G. A. KI slln" U. .Taeobs R M Il II' E uloge TeigniervJ. 11. Rolland Olaudius Em el difficulty was experienced in this province, the most experienced could hardly say whether the pressure was Hoycr, Augustin . Marie .Toseph Sauzeau, .T;:uh Williams, and \\. L. Williams: . nunse, . dae to the difficulties of the neighbouring Provinces or to the tightness of th e mane)" market ill England. 01"''1.1/:_ Soon, J aques Marie Tresallet, Laurence Vinay. p Cnoterhury is, indeed, wonderfully independent of its northern and southern neighbours. Much the same T~ e ~e"e;ends I haia 'Te Ahu, Riwni Te Ahu PRESBYTERIAN CnURCH. may be said, no doubt, of the other Provinces. And so it fall. out that the chronicler of the year's events in ~ Benjamin l'ate Ashwell " rilliam ylm I h ' The Reverends Thomus Alexander, John AlI Cante,'hury feels himself to he writing no page of the history of New Zealand as a whole. Charles Ba"shaw, P. R 'S. Bailey C.1 I er'B' k~ n pc~ n, T• B ~ '\" 11' . "arl es a cr. Ralph J oshua Allsworth, 'Villiam Bannerman . .1,. ayle)", I lam Bird, Samuel Blackburn' Da vi~ The history of Canterbury during 1864 hag not been altogether of that happy brilliant character which, Barclay, Moses Breach,.George Brown, J we may say, is natural to the province, Along with a great deal of prosperity and material advancement, T~om a s Adolphus ~owden, Cronsdailc Bowen, }{e~ Br uce, Thomas Bu rn s, Patriok Cald er .Tohn Cam ~m Id It. BradIcy, hdward Nugcnt lIrec Henr - II somemisfortune has to be chronicled. The state of trade during the winter Wag dull, and to some extent bell, J ohn Christ ie, .Tames Clerk, Ch'arles ConnJr' it still continues so. The Government found themselves una ble to sell the debentures of the Province as rown, Lawrence Lawson Brown UOber't B j . James Duncan, Charles Fraser, .Tohn Gorrie G ' rr" I" Dutt,lomas1'1 CJlapman George ' .T Churrows, I Joh~: readilyas thcy wished in Lond?n, and so thc large puhlic. works, railways to the !'orth and so~th, improve. Grant, .Tames II,ill, David lIogg, William ments in Lytlelton harhour, brldges over the dangerous r"ers, and other expens,ve undertakmg. have not deley, JEdwar~ D. Clarke, Bo b ~r t IIenry Codri~ ~~:­ stone, .Tames KIrkland, William Kirton .Tohn J. A. " . CollinS, George Cotterill Ale d D g , ~1'Leod: becn proceeded with so rapidl)" as wns anticipated Inst )"ear, and in some cases not at all. At the 6Ilmc D Udl~n ~ :,se~t, Macky; Robert l\1'Kin ne)", Norl.nan .Tame! time the rise and fall of new gold fields, and a faIling olf in the present productiveness of some old and D. D bois, Benjamin Thornton' H. ~! Na ~~ht,on, .Tohn .1\1'NICol, P eter .l\!ason W~lI cJ Ik dle,Y, John Dulfus, Christ:phe~n)jk: ~o n ~l d ~Ioir , Tho~ favo:U-ite diggings, ha,e attracled and repelled hither and thither across this l'rovince, to and from th c ".aka. )[elkleJohn, .Tohn .T. S. )!uir, marina,the Grey and the Dunstan, numhers of people who would bc in th eir place among a gold.mining "?we Dunne, Edward G. Fdwards, " ' illiam C 1\orrle, .T. }'. Itiemensehneider, Andrew Hamilton F earon, lIenrv Fcn,lall Gear e F . ~r. population, but looked as much out of place on the alluvial plains of Canterbur)" as did their tcnts in a Gilford, Frank Gould j., II oster, A.lgernon Stobo, Donald Stuart, .T. M. Smith• .Tohn Thom Canterbur)" sou' -wester. Desides, there continued to be, ag there always has becn, a not inconsiderahle n .T 11 I b " " aranger, ChrIstopher #ill~der D. Todd, .Tames Urie, M. Watt, Willia~ n '. a com e, Jamcs IIalnlin, Henry 'Y illin immigration from other provinces and colonies of persons hoping to find a eomfortuhle home among us. arper, .Tohn Edward IIerring Ed, d H rdm The discharged militiaman from Auckland, the impo,erished settler from Taranaki, the small tradcr from H ey wood, Tamihnna H t : war Owa " 'ESLEYAN M ETHODIST S OCI ETY. Australia, the writing-clerk from Dunedin, and the roving man-of-all-work from everywhere, after tasting Thoma Diddulph llultonu~~r } . H. ITumphreys, The Reverend. .Tohn Aldred, Thomas Dud dlc the sweets and bitters of the lagt new gold field in Cook Straits, next thought of Canterbur)", and came David .Tones Jlaniera K 'h' IIfhHenry .Tohnstone, .Tames Buller, Robert, S. Bunn, " 'i1liam Cann e~ Am~. on hither, hoping to find a new land of Goshen , wherc the plagues of war and gold should be unfelt• K inder Kne ll F aw. 'ii: OffitlS Kerr, .Tolm .Tohn,Crump, A. R FItchett, William Gittos I9aac Canterbury, nevertheless, can claim no excmption from the operation of economical laws; an unusual fear, .J~hn Frederick L~aydcI'" n,?wles'LThomas Lan­ liardmg, .Tohn H obbs, William Kirk He';r H L d ',.[ , ICc. unus usb, Charles in1IllX of a hcterogeneous population in a dull time could not hut ha,e its natural elfect-the production of en r,c... aclcan, J oseph Matt b .T h Aa'\Ty, Alexander Reid, William Rowse: Cort Flenri a temporary slagnation of commerc c. In short, Canterhur)" has prospered during the past twelve months; 1lfoanaroa, Lorenzo M ews, a. ua Tc Schnaeke nberg, .Joseph T. Shaw, George Stannard. but the prosperit)" has been Icss and hcr progress slower than usual. With this general glance at the stat<­ IT. S. Nicholl ' V ill ia ~orF' ~I ~ f M0.rgan, Charles J amc. Wallis, .Tohn ''''arren W'iIliam.T 'V lk '' of the province, we pllSS to a detail of facts . Phil ip Patiki, jlati aba Poh ~i Samm'l ~hnl Palm cl', .J0!m Whitele)", William Worker. a m, dale l'n tt, Art hur Guyon l' hue.T 00 e, Lons­ A remarkable event in the political histor)" of the Pro,ince hag been the resignation of th e Executive, " 'ill iam Honaldson Coo ure IL", aIm Raven, C ONGREGATIONAL INDEPENDENTS.