Untitled

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 188, 16 August 1854, Page 2

Lyttelton Colonists' Society.—At a general meeting of the above Society on Tuesday evening last, Mr. Alport introduced his motion, advertised in our last week's paper, on " The propriety of establishing a Defensive Corps for the Province of Canterbury." After some discussion, in which Messrs. Alport, Porter, Beeby, and Graham, took part, the following resolution was adopted :—

" That a committee be formed to draw up a memorial to the Provincial Government, praying that defensive corps for this province may be forthwith organised: such memorial to be signed by the inhabitants of this town. And that Messrs. Porter, Beeby, Fyfe, J. Shrimpton, and Alport, do form said committee."

Several interesting statements, illustrating the method of training adopted by the inhabitants of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, were given by Mr. Porter.

Resident Magistrate's Court/ Lyttelton, Aug. 11.— Congreve v . De Moulin. This was an action brought by Sir W. Congreve, Inspector of Sheep, against William De Moulin, for having scabby sheep in his charge after the Ist of June, under the 12th clause of the Provincial Scab and Catarrh Ordinance. The Inspector did not wish to press, the case beyond making the defendant enter into 'a bond, according to the provisions of the Ordinance, to pay the penalty imposed in two months unless the sheep should be previously cleaned. Mr. De Moulin admitted that the sheep were scabby: evidence was brought to prove that they fjwevei-cleaiy about a month before" the date of the inspection.—The Resident Magistrate ordered that a bond "should be entered into by defendant for £25, (500 sheep at Is. per sheep,) to be cancelled in two months if the sheep should be clean.