WELLINGTON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 6 December 1851, Page 6

WELLINGTON.

We have this week, says the Wellington Spectator, to record the death, at the advanced age of 82 years, of Mr. Adam lieid, one of the first colonists of this settlement. Mr. Reid arrived in Wellington in the early part of 1840, in the Bengal Merchant, one of the ships which b.tought out the iivst body of settlers, and was a land purchaser in the Wanganui district.

His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief returned on the 26th of November from Nelson in the Government Brig-. Our extracts from the summary of Nelson news given by the Spectator will make our readers acquainted with His Excellency's proceedings there. The case Ferris v. The Canterbuhy Association (in which the plaintiff applied for a rule for an injunction to restrain the Canterbury Association from proceeding further, by suing out distress or otherwise, in a certain cause heard before two justices sitting for the Resident Magistrate, in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lyttelton, wherein the complainant was defendant, and the said Association plaintiff,) had been heard before Judge Chapman. Our readers have already been made acquainted with the facts upon which this appeal was grounded, by a letter of one of the parties interested in a precisely similar case, published in our paper of the 22nd ult. We need not" therefore enter into particulars. His Honour refused the injunction. We shall next week reprint the somewhat lengthy statement of his reasons for so doin°-.