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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 251, 22 February 1878, Page 7

STBA8BOUB& Cathedral is undergoing a complete reparation, and German hands are bent on effacing the memories of destruction by German shells. Advantage has been taken of this proceeding to replace, or, as we should call it, to " restore," the slower injuries of time, so that a good deal more has been added than was knocked down in August, 1870. Sculpture and pinnacles, canopies and pedestals, the statues of Emperors having, as one might expect, a considerable prominence, are being replaced or erected in positions which may never before have been occupied. Most of the imperial.statues are on horseback. Dean Milman's ghost must be troubled by this. According to that dignitary it was an. ecclesiastical offence to introduce the effigy of a horse in a church - t outside or inside could make no difference, — AtJfenatim,