Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 440, 21 January 1857, Page 7

Local Intelligence.

A special meeting of Justices of the Peace was held at the Police Office, in Lyttelton, on the 13th instant, to consider the propriety of removing the slaughterhouse from its present very objectionable situation in Dampier's Bay. A memorial, very numerously and respectably signed, complaining of the present slaughter-house as a nuisa cc and injurious to the public health, was taken into consideration, and it was decided not to renew the license, but to allow the existing premises to be used for one month from that date. In the meantime we understand that the Justices will be prepared to entertain any application for a license to slaughter in a suitable locality." Application has also been made to the Provincial Government to ascertain' if a proper site can be obtained out of the Waste Lands in the vicinity of the Town of Lyttelton. A Provincial Government Gazette of the Bth inst. notifies that Mr. Charles Lagden Haylock has been elected Way warden for th" Akaroa District. By a Gazette of the 15th inst., we find that Joseph Brit tan Esq.' has been appointed Acting-Treasurer during the temporary absence of the Provincial Treasurer.' "• Desertkr Ca-PTxtked. —One of the. seamen who deserted from the' French whaling vessel Elizabeth was apprehended in Chrislchurch on Thursday' last.'1 The boat which these men took from the ship was, abandoned on the s!pit at Sumner; it was recovered by the Captain and ci^V of the

Uira, and is now in the custody of the police. Sudden Death.—An affecting incident occurred on Monday last, in tyttelton. Mr. Herbert Ferrers Knyvett, who has been for the last two or three months in declining health, was brought to Lyttelton for the benefit of medical advice, in the schooner ! Hannah, which arrived just before midnight, and early in the morning, as Mr. Knyvett was being carried on a litter from the jetty, he expired without even a sigh. Death fkom Btxkning. —We have this week to record another fatal casualty. One of the children of Mr. William Parrish, farmer, on the Ferry Road, was unfortunately so severely,burnt by the accidental ignition of his clothes that death ensued in a a few hours. The inquest is fixed for 11 o'clock this day.