unexpected 'new' (T_NEW) in /usr/share/php/HTTP/Client.php on line 179

[Patrick]

Hi,
On a newly installed Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS, Release: 16.04

With PHP 7.0.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (cli) ( NTS )
 Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies,

apt-cache policy php:
  Installed: 1:7.0+35ubuntu6
  Candidate: 1:7.0+35ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.0+35ubuntu6 500
        500 http://mirrors.online.net/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirrors.online.net/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

and php7.0-fpm:
apt-cache policy php7.0-fpm :
  Installed: 7.0.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Candidate: 7.0.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 7.0.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 500
        500 http://mirrors.online.net/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
     7.0.4-7ubuntu2 500
        500 http://mirrors.online.net/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

and with php-pear 1.10.1+submodules+notgz-4
apt-cache policy php-pear
php-pear:
  Installed: 1:1.10.1+submodules+notgz-6
  Candidate: 1:1.10.1+submodules+notgz-6
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.10.1+submodules+notgz-6 500
        500 http://mirrors.online.net/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirrors.online.net/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I got thid error :

[Tue Jul 04 12:57:12.592765 2017] [proxy_fcgi:error] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'new' (T_NEW) in /usr/share/php/HTTP/Client.php on line 179'