Correspondence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 473, 16 May 1857, Page 6

Correspondence.

To the Editor qfthel^ttelton Time*.

Sib,—The pleasure that your readers would doubtlessly feel from the perusal of your weekly summary of "local intelligence" would be considerably increased, could they but take for granted that all therein was worth as much as it read for, and that the usual amount of cau^ tious enquiry-;—so necessary in the absence of direct proof—had been instituted by the contributing Liocologistx ere his remarks had the approved sanction of the'leading press of the province. - In your Saturday's issue, under the above head, and while noticing the Governor's Bat Boad, he writes:—" That the road was laid out; by the desire of the inhabitants;" and agaiu that—-'* that very road was made at their own earnest desire, and has been of immeasurable benefit to themselves, and to few but themselves at present." Now, Sir, permit me to add that, as to the first assertion, the real fact is just the contrary; for I have made it nay business, a»_ Beturnihg Officer of the district, to question fully two-thirds of the inhabitants thereof, and in not even a solitaryinstance did I receive an answer <36nfirmatory of such, but, in fact, th« reverse; and that'neither their convenience was consulted, nor land treated for, when both might a»4 should have been. And, a? tq the ?econ<J assertion-—of the road being but' of small benefit; to others, save themselves, t beg to repeat that I am prepared to prove, a$ any time that the trafl^c pf 'the.ljays \n atthis present time—as it has beenl —entirely donei by boats, and that, as for both foot and horse passengers, those availing themselves of the rciad and living out of the district have been three tfl> one or more, and they principally Port people, with <»n occasional Christchurch man. Feelingj Sirj that this letter is no more than called for, from

the statement in question, : l ' T " I remain',! Sjr> Your very ob'Mient servant, ' ; WEStBt'H. PERCiyAL Brooklands, Governor's Bay, ' May 11th, 1857. '