JOURNAL OF THE WEEK.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 10, 15 March 1851, Page 5

JOURNAL OF THE WEEK.

Our account of the past week's proceedings must be principally occupied with that most English subject, the weather. ISot that the dwellers in England have often seen such severe or continued rain as we have had since Tuesday last. The older inhabitants of Lyttelton say that no such rain occurred during the whole of last winter. The roads in the Town have again been considerably injured. One small house built on the edge of the gully was washed down. The new gaol, the walls of which are almost completed, appeai's to have suffered some damage; one of the cornel-shaving been settled. We have heard of no other injury of any consequence ; although few of the lately arrived have escaped without much inconvenience. |The weather has however again changed,and we may still hope^'for a month or six weeks fair before the winter rains fairly set in.

Those who have come in from the plains, tell us that the water is out over considerable tracts of the country; and the bridge over the Heathcote is carried away, so that, the only communication now is over the Ferry, and along the new road. The ditches along the latter, are full of water,

and the works have been suspended for a day or two in several places, but we understand that the road is passable in those parts which have been completed. On Thursday, a savage of the name of Hayes, distinguished himself by setting his dogs on a pig of Mr. Richards } and afterwards by committing a brutal assault on Mr. and Mrs. Cox, who keep a coffee shop near the Land Offices; he was arrested under a summons, and tried at Lyttelton yesterday, before the bench of Magistrates, and fortunately in addition to a fine of five pounds, he forfeits recognisances to the amount of one hundred and twenty pounds for himself, and two sureties, .under which he had been bound in consequence of some former outrage. The fall of bread, two pence a loaf, is so much a matter for congratulation as to be worth recording. The first holiday to the school children of Lyttelton, is also worthy of notice; we have been favoured with an account of the festivities, which will be found in another colum.