Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 356, 2 April 1856, Page 7

Local Intelligence.

Resident Magistkatk's CouiiT. Monday, March olst, iS5(i. John Smith, labourer, \vas committed for trial for stealing1 1 pair trousers, 1 pair hoots, 2 cotton shirt?!, and one blue shirt, from Messrs. "Waitt and MeldrumV station, and 1 gun, pouch and flask, the property of C. R. Blakiston, Esq., from Mr. Young's residence at. Kaiapoi. When the prisoner was searched at the gaol at Lyttelton, a loaded pistol was found secreted in his clothes. No charges of violence or of threats were brought against the prisoner.

The Guardian of Dec. 5, makes the following comment on the settlement of the Canterbury Association's affairs. The paragraphs referred to are from our papers of June and July last; —"From some paragraphs in our colonial news it will be seen that the Canterbury association has attained its euthanasia, handed over its assets and liabilities to its already vigorous offspring, and peacefully expired. Young colonies are not apt to be grateful ; but the Canterbury settle! s acknowledge, with a cordial warmth which does them honour, their debt to their founders individually and collectively. They persist in being prosperous in spite of their detractors, and point very fairly to their prosperity as an answer to the attacks on those who created the colony. 'We who know them, appreciate their services'—' they'have made a home for the Englishman such as is not excelled in any other colony under the British Crown.' It is not immaterial to add that, though its property is not immediately realisable, the Asssociation dies solvent."

A General Government Gazette of Feb. 23rd, contains the following appointments by His Excellency the Governor—William John Warburton Hamilton, Esq., J.P. of this Province, to be a Resident Magistrate.

William Seed, Esq., sub-collector of Customs at Ahuriri, to be sub-Treasurer.

Charles Wybrow Ligar, Esq. to be a Commissioner under the Crown Titles Ordinance, [New Ulster], Session X, No. 4.

The name of Charles Logic, Esq., has been added to the Commission of Peace for the Province of Otago.

The following appointments appear in a Gazette of March Bth. A. T. Elles, Esq., to be Resident Magistrate and sub Collector of Customs, and Deputy Postmaster at the Blsff and New River in the Province of Otago.

Mr. John Monson to be second Landingwaiter and Deputy Postmaster at Port Chalmers.

The Right End of the Education Question. —The following is an extract from a ietier wnttftii by Lord Stanley, to Sir W. Jones, Bart., on the establishment of ;i library at Fakenham, Norfolk, dated Nov. 12th, 1855. '"You have a-ked me to put on paper a fey suggestions and remarks which I ventured to offer in our conversation of Saturday, respecting the educational project on which you and your friends at Fakenl'.am are enjrajyed. Ido so with great pleasure, feeling sure that you have col hold of Use rijvlit end of the education quotum, while politicians, both in ami out of Parliament, aye T for the most part, busying themselves with the wronj; one. It i.> idle to expect that persons wlio have no access to bocks, ami who, therefore, seldom or never read, will take pains to see that their children acquire the power of Teamn«r. Public libraries, whether wholly free or open to subscribers at a low rate, are tiie most effective instruments to create a demand lor more and better schools. That dune, tue supnlv will soon fellow."