The Star. TEUSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1872.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 1481, 26 November 1872, Page 2

The Star. TEUSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1872.

<s> JBLIC squares nud parks have not su inapt!/ termed "tho Jungs of •iea," und iv dennc-dy populated cumuuilies they no <ioubb deserve thai •pellatioo. In earlier times not much ; . '.eiitioii was paid to preserve certain rlions of tbo cities 'and towns from ■iildiugs, oo that there might at le.islj some spots open for tbe free .circula -j ;a oi: air, uds vvUer<? the inhabitants j aid assemble for recreation oresero. Narrow, crowded streets, and the -.•lost total absence of anything like ; i..treßj . wore tho distinguishing iracfceristic3 of old cities and towns. . scientific knowledge became more ueral, and the true causes of many ihe diseases — which, uuder the name] " the plague," at one time threafcJ fco depopulate somo of the chief •33— became known, then it also was I •Kreut that, in order to ensure the ith of the inhabitants, wide streets -xt- supersede narrow ones, and per places unincumbered by buildd must be set apart ; and this, as far practicable, has had to be effected many of the cities of the old world. ose who laid oufc the plan of thei ly of Christchurch profiled by past cperienee, and hence several open inrea have been left. We have been lod to make tlie fore .-'fng' remarks, because at the public •eting hvld iv the Canterbury Music 1 „21' yesterday, a suggest iou, which | : hough it did not lake th. 'orm of a, • pioposi'.irn, was nevertheless •••oted, to the effect that the public kldinga v7.»ich it is contemplated erect, nhou'd be nlacd on the westy.\ side of dihedral Squuiv., -:.ucad<. f or. the eastern side, now • I aputt us the the fur a Calhekiil. If this Wtre done, and if at a •:*-.urD lime the CaiLwJ.J .vjrc Lull, "•?. wh. lo cf the square would be by buiidingH. and one of the kings of the Cisy" be destroyed. . r e trust ' hut this will never be done • \ the conf-rarv wf thf> ncrrolia us for tho lmrc.haHe of the r, "thonr,ii - to, which it is probaMe ere long will > re-op^ed, will ?*p br<--n'*;ht to a icc'eas?.:. i*<*ue. We are "perfectly vare of the frtct. thnt 'br* Synod has 1 ... more than one occasion refused to li the site, but we trust that the '.■juiberf. thereof will be induced to give favourable vo-eonsidpration to their inner decision, especially when the :*.probabi'i?y bf procuring sufficient -.ads for the erection of the Cathedral • r years I > come, is alao taken into uisidcra'ion, It is evidently the wish f a large aud influential portion : the eit •»»•!» i»f Christchurch that the 'übhedi-ai i-ite, instead of lying. waste, ",ould be u*ed as a site for public ■aiding- 1 , wt'i.'h the growing imporfc•ice of Canterbury has rendered neces:ry. No attempt is even suggested >• spoil the property of the Church, iithe contrary, a liberal price should o given for it, and we put ifc therefore > the members of the Synod whether key think Chat the interests of the 'hurch of England would be advanced, ..• subscriptions to build a Cathedral j made to flow in more freely, by a tfaist-ent opposition to what is clearly '.c will of the majority of fche people, en though the right of refusal iB .action' d by law ? ■ ii

MtisiOAL Society.— The final private researsal of the " Creation " will take place at ka Oddfellows' Hall, this evening, at halfast 7 o'clock, anel on Thursday evening the üblio rehearsal will be held. j