Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 428, 10 December 1856, Page 6

Local Intelligence.

Aitoixtmexts —By a Provincial Gazette, dated the 29th nil;., which we have only now received, we find that, Mr. Joseph Brittan has been appointed Keeper of the Public Records, in the room of Mr. Tancred, resigned. Mr. Tancreds resignation of the appointments of Resident Magistrate for Lyttelton, Sheriff of the Province of Canterbury, and Commissioner of Police, is also notified, and Mr. Hall is gazetted as his successor in all three ; for the two former, provisionally, waiting the confirmation of the Governor. In the same Gazette are published the prorogation of the Provincial Council till March sth, 1851, and his Honor the Superintendent's address on the occasion. Fatal Accident at Ajiurt.—The schooner 'Caledonia' has just arrived from A muri without her master and one of her men. It appears that in bringing two bales of wool from the shore, with three hands in the boat, the wool rolled with a lurch and upset them. One of the men swam to the schooner; Kandal, the master, and Marsh were drowned in the surf. The survivor, the only man remaining in the schooner, attempted to bring her to port, alone ; and, fortunateh* falling in with the Hannah, received assistance from her, and reached Lyttelton in safety. Randal has been well known and much esteemed in tins town since its first existence, having been one of the crew of the ship ' Charlotte Jane.' His loss is severely felt by all who knew him.