Correspondence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 425, 29 November 1856, Page 7

Correspondence.

To the^JEditorof tJie Lyttelton Times. Dear Sir,—Permit me to request youio correct a mis-report, which appeared inithe Jjytielton Times of Saturday, of one of the resolutions which I submitted to the Provincial Council on the Thursday previous. As this resolution was adopted by the Council, it is very desirable that it shoulchbe correctly given. The resolution was as follows:— " That this .Council taking into consideration the various plans which have been proposed for the opening such land communication, and regarding the resolutions repeatedly adopted'in former sessions in favour of the line of road now in course of construction by way of Sumner, is of opinion that that road ought not to be abandoned as the permanent line of land communication between Lyttelton and Christchurch, and that the works thereon should be carried on with as much expedition as possible by means of prison labour." , - ; The error consists in your having substituted the words "as little .expenditure as possible'?'for those which I have ,italieis,ed. I am »3ir, ' Yours truly, ' Joseph Beit^ast. Christchurch,-Nov. 22nd, 1556; " " " ' [Mr. Brittan's letter should have .appeaxed in our issue of Wednesday last, but .was accidentally mislaid. Ed. L. T.] J " "'"

_— _ To the Editor of the Lytteltpn Times. \ Sir,—rj ,haye to .state, in answer to T a j:e,m,ark j of your correspondent " Amateur/ ,that ■" Busy i rumour" must be better ;nfor.me.d .about ,ibhe affairs.pf thejChqral jSopiety than its,cominittee. ' The committee .are not ayyare .that there is any " possibility" or probability of a " bre^ak up ' of the Choral Society." I rema|n, yours ,&c, James -D/.Gaewood, Hon. Sec, Lytteltbn-CliQral Society.

To the Editor of the LgUelton Times. Sir, —The following sentence appears in a letter inserted in the -/(Lyt^elton* Times' of Wednesday last, k signed \R. JDavis.:— " Also the ' Canterbury Standard' of Thursday last published the report of a division"l on ' the subject [a Pilot Station in Little Port Cooper, and the erection of a Flag Staff on Adderley Head] ; the imaginary numbers being 15 for and 3 against it. Sir. as no division took place, lam anxious to Correct this statement of the ' Standard' " &c. Sir, by the courtesy of the clerk of the • House, I have been permitted to refer to the j Minutes of Council, and to make the following j extract. * j " Motion made and question proposed, ;' ' That his Honor the Superintendent be re-1 quested to place on the estimates a sum of! money to establish a Pilot Station, in 'Little j Port Cooper,.also to place,on the estimates a i sum of money for a Flag £>taft^ on Adderley, Head.' I Council divided, Noes ( l3. Ayes 3. No: Messrs. Barker, Blakiston, Bray,Brittan, Cookson, Fooks, Hamilton, Moovhouse, Morgan, Olliviev, Bhpdes, Tancred,iWestenra. Aye : Messrs, Dampi,er,< Davis, Wes.tenra, 1 I leave it, Sir,.to your readers to.form an i ,opinioavOf wliatimust have been the state of j Mi\ Pavis's mind.and.the. AVQrth.«ofihis,.state-

mentis, when, after he had tjjpught forward "*a motion and divided the Council'up, pn it,' with the result shewn ahpve, he could and sjata that —"no d\ision took place." I am, Sjr, Tfours obe^entljf,