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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 84, 14 August 1852, Page 7

We understand that Mr. Godley is preparing to take his departure for England in a few weeks. Our readers will remember that after the arrival of the " Stag," bringing intelligence that the Association intended to transfer their functions to the Local Government by means of an Act of Parliament to be obtained during the session of 1852, he expressed his determination to remain for the purpose of assisting to carry that transfer into effect. But as late events in England seem to preclude the possibility of getting such an act passed this year, the reason assigned by Mr. Godley for prolonging his stay has ceased to exist, and we believe he is now anxious to be in London, if possible, before the introduction of the proposed measure. We have reason to believe, further, that, in the event of Mr. Godley's departure, the Association have nominated Captain Simeon to succeed him in the Agency. An Inquisition was held on Thursday on the remains of a man found cast up on the shore of the Little Sandy Bay, next Rhodes' Bay, in this harbour. From the advanced state of decomposition, it was at first thought recognition would be impossible, but the boots, the remains of a pair of trousers, and a leather belt, all that remained of his clothes, enabled James Mackenzie to identify the remains as those of his brother, John Mackenzie, who was drowned by the capsizing: of a boat on his way to Governor's Bay, in company with the unfortunate George Shute, who, our"readers will recollect, was lost on his return from his wedding trip about ten weeks ago. Verdict, accidentally drowned. Mr. Wakley, M. P. for Finsbury, has pronounced in favour of extending the franchise to Woman. At a recent meeting he said : "what was the object of the suffrage ? The object was to obtain g;ood government; and what was the object of g:ood government ? A happy home. (Cheers.) And who so interested in a happy home as the women ? They were the parties, therefore, who would give honest votes —and if husbands did not comply with their requests, they would have rather;an"uhcomfortable time of it." (Cheers and laughter.) If there are any Wakleys in the Settlement, now is the time for them to moot the question in the Colonist Societies. We are informed that a Gentleman recently arrived from Melbourne, advertised, previous to his departure, for a female servant, and had no less than 6 applications in the course of a week, the state of Society being so repugnant to the feelings of many, as to 'induce them to quit that city. Melbourne is represented as being m a very lawless state, robberies taking place openly m the day time, and the police quite ineffectual to repress them, or to take offenders into custody. It is fair, how-ver. io add that tins state of affairs is confined to the City and suburbs, the diggings being comparatively free from crime. Wages are enormously high, and provisions, and especially houst- revs Equally so, but little preparations having been made to meet the great influx of population. Motheu Asn Child are doing well.— Ihe following- mot of the Due de Brno-lie is going the round of the Salons of Pans; its wisdom is equal to its wit-.—» L'anarchie est accouchee de Despotisme— la mere et I'Enfant se portent bieu."

A Strange Conjunction.—An Irish journal publishes a letter from \ a Canterbury Colonist, in which amongst other heterogeneous, statements, he writes that " Pine Apples grow, in the open air, and is universally'liked in the Settlement." This Siamese cohesion of fie-, tion and fact is so strikingly droll, that we deem it worthy of emhalmation by being recorded in our columns.