MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3584, 26 March 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

r . ♦ _ By no means the least significant among ■a!l the manifestoes which havo appeared on tho subject of Church Disestablishment is', says the Pall Mall Gazette, that Bigned by 200 curates of the Church of England giving 12 reasons why the Church should be free from the state control, for ita own sake and that of the people whom it exists to servo. Many of tho reasons are famih' d , enough through action of the Libera* 0E Society but they como with added w e hrhl from the new quarter. Others are p cculiai to the curates themselves. Amom , o thei things they do not hesitate to "declare strongly that, while m other p,rof e ssion« promition is achieved by merit, ft Koei tho Church through relation .ski-f t i i(l( these considerations havo a demoralising effect upon the clergyir JQn that th * ornate Bcrvieeg of eathedre. Ia contra3t m. fully with the poverty ollMlteri £ mA theso stately edifices; v that tho Church establishment aa a whc, j0 Btick3 to it 3 abusc£ for tho sake of gold„ H the tc , , authorities could only 6eo it thg mauife3 . tation of such a spil . it am thcßo „ niac young judges -; s ono of the firmest stones m the real f oundation oE theh Uiurcn.-n, foundation beside which State support 13 but o bed of sand. ... m "reference to tho proposal of Sir Charles lu Vper, High Commissioner for Canada, that ft cable should bo laid from Vancouver's Island to New Zealand, the Sydney Evening News of the 3rd instant says : — " Whether the timo has arrived for taking prompt action m. such a matter or not is a debatable question, but there can bo no hesitation m saying that the undertaking will bo one of the worka which must bo accomplished m the immediate f uturo. The natural growth of our commerce, and tho probable increase of tho passeßgertraffic between these colonies and tho Pacific Slope, will render tho establishment of telegraphio communication indispensiblo. Besides it would bo highly desirable for other reasona to have such a connecting link created.^ In the event of England being involved m a European war, tho cliancea are ten to ono that the telegraphic lines by which the Australians are at present kept m touch with the oulsido world would bo out off; at least, the likelihood of some attempt of the kind being successfully made would bo far greater m the case of tho existing cables, than m that of ono laid across tho Pacific. With respect- to tho latter, interruptions? from tho causes alluded to would certainly be j I more completely guarded against if the cooperations of tho American Governmont could De secured for tho proposed scheme" |