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THE CATHEDRAL PULPIT. 



into the Court itself. To the right the eye rests upon a low, grim and castellated 

 building, flying a flag from its corner tower, and closer examination shows us that it is 

 the Barracks of the Salvation Army. To the 

 left-hand lie some of the scholastic buildings 

 with which the city is amply furnished. In no 

 other respect have the pioneers more convin- 

 cingly attested their wisdom and foresight than 

 in the splendid provision they made for second- 

 ary and higher education. At a time when 

 the Provincial Government was in receipt of 

 a princely revenue from its land fund, and 

 when the settlers of the North Island had to 

 struggle on as best they could without any 

 such wealth, no less than three hundred and 

 fifty thousand acres were set apart in this 

 favoured province as educational endowments, 

 while in 1873 fourteen thousand pounds were 

 voted for the erection of a Normal School 

 where teachers might be properly trained. The 

 Canterbury College, which now stands in Wor- 

 cester Street, at the western end of the city, is affiliated to the University of New Zea- 

 land, and boasts a long list of graduates. It is a building of the Gothic order, with a 



high clock-tower over the main en- 

 trance. And the Church of England 

 has not been one whit behindhand 

 in educational enterprise. It estab- 

 lished, in the very early days, the 

 still flourishing institution of Christ's 

 College, which is now equipped with a 

 large play-ground, a fives'-court, prac- 

 tice grounds for cricket and foot- 

 ball, and an ample swimming-bath. 

 In addition to these seats of learn- 

 ing, there are boys' and girls' high 

 schools, both richly endowed, six or 

 seven State primary schools, and a 

 well-endowed school of arts at the 

 corner of Hereford and Antigua 

 Streets. Nor must the Agricultural 

 College at Lincoln, thirteen miles 

 south of Christchurch, be forgotten. 

 A farm of six hundred acres is 

 attached to it, and lectures are regu- 

 THE WEST DOOR OF THE CATHEDRAL. larly given on agriculture, chemistry, 



