Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 432, 24 December 1856, Page 8

Local Intelligence.

Election.—John Hall, Esq. was re-elected member of the Provincial Council of this province for the Christeluirch Country District, on Sloinky last, at eleven cw-loek pr^ci«]v. Ebbatum.—Jame-s Green.* the nian whose tlcatb by drowning we reported last Saturday, had been a seaman oi the Sir Ed^vard Pasetl not of the Caroline Ag-nes>. as stst«L He was a destn.er irom the slsip.an«l pn^«i three months in Lyttelton Gaol in ccuswiaen^. Hazetj-e. —ln a Provincial Government * Gazette/ dated the 23th instant, the following correspondence is puVti^hetl:— Superiniendeafs OtEce. Christchuwh, Canterbury, Oct. U r 1850.

I have the honor to request that His Excellency will be pleas-d to prc-ckjjn the ' Resident yiajpsir&te* Conn Extension of Jurisdiction Of&mance, to come into operation for the Courts at Lyu*]k<n sml Christehurch. to extend over the whole Province of Canterbury. arA the K^sideiit-Mapstratti of Lvtteiton to be ihe presiding -Jud^e in both such "Courts. I have th. ; lion Jr. &<;., •'■ E. Fi-tz. Gehald. Ibe Hon. the Colonial Sc-cretarv. €<>bni;;l Sttrciary's Oilice. Auckland. Nov I 12. J.bOO. ' ' ' i "•'—•' - m '»\< lr Jl< 1,,, k Vfr ' l r i i"" -1/ r fjuftii !; 4 -^J 'i << ( out Ju.i 1 - t ' ' i » » , 3<H nr -,1 j ' ' *i i > t ' t!,, „ i J i > t in i,) \ d \ ' .ij r in ! '* JJvi! 'i r j. ii« f : - ' ' J^ )l Jt< ) 1 ( -« J i ,],.,,,'! to 'o < ) * i JU j . « j n i •!< i' ' i 'i ' * * t \" f J

the Jvakaia for (he use of Ferry; and the standing timber in the Wainiakmiri, Rnkaia, Ashburton and Rnngitata ; also the completion of the reserves at tattle Akaroa for a church and school, and at the Salt Water Creek for a ferry and House of accovnodatum. .further that John Cowoll Hoys, Esq., is np}K>inted an assistant Surveyor for the Proviuce of Canterbury. The Installation of the Bishop of Christ- i church will take place in Christdmrch on Christmas day (to-morrow). Skumoks and Oiuhkatiox by tttk Bishop of New Ziulajcix—A sermon in aid of the Melanosian Mission was preached in the temporary Church at-Lyttelton, on Sunday morning last, by the Lord Bishop of New Zealand. The eloquent discourse, interesting from the personal narrative of the Bishop's own exertions in the Missionary cause was rendered more impressive from the ceremony which followed of admitting j to priest's orders the Ilex. Leonard Williams, son of Archdeacon Win. Williams of Turanga, who with his brother, came to this country thirty years ago, the first ordained missionaries to the then savage New Zealanders. His Lordship remarked that Mr. Williams, the present candidate for ordination, was born in the same year in which the first conversion to Christianity occurred, fifteen years after the first efforts had been made for that end. He showed further how from that beginning the gospel had \ spread over* New Zealand,and from New Zealand 1a? a centre it might be expected to spread by native agency over the multitude of the Pacific Islands, even though the noxious climates and the diversified languages of the majority of them were fearful impediments in the way of a European. The Rev. L. Williams preached in .the evening for the same object; the two collections amount to £21. 3s. 3d. The Bishop of New Zealand preached at Governor's Bay in the afternoon.