Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 474, 20 May 1857, Page 8

Local Intelligence.

-.The disconfcinuance of the sittings .of' the Council for a short time abstracts so (Considerably fronvthe amount of weekly intelligence to belaid before our readers, that we look forward with a shudder to the; Wackaess of the comirlg days,: when the .Council shall ait no;longei.,That day-gives no=promise. of its early arrival/; nor dare we make any prophecy as ito the length;of the session* Tjie Council,goes unevenly, or, us $ ! Scots housewife ini§ht say,. f.feckies^ly,';abottt j itsJWOrk; ■ •.■:■ „ .-,:! t :i; •■:><:.■';;.•. '■\V> .;:>■;. And like a wounded snake, dtags its'bVqw length alongj ; with the ' wriggling" action of an••'-v eel with its -head oftV 'and ': peradventure:"' for> the same reason.v^On Saturday we shall have to re: port the deliberations of the House on the cation question.? •' "•■ ■.:■'■■■■'v<> ■■'..->'■.•!.■. .-;'] ' The Belisama has cleared; -and gonej with a short 'cargo of 759 > bales wool, valuedi op i• an average of"abouteighteenipence per, lb.,at above £-18,000. She Belisama has; been in'harbour exactly three months, a»d -has ;been. very busily engaged;'during that time- discharging-n very full cargo from "London -and loading? with produce as above. "With the Oliver!' iiang, * the Melpomenejafld the Monsooii/this cargo-'maiksa a total of above' -6000 ibales sent to London direct from three of * the' SoutKem'--provinces of New: Zealand durihg- this- seasbn. Our harbour does not. now;, Qontain, x a t single; besides some h'alf^dqzen river craft.: : 'The ResidentlM^gtstrateV-'Cburt '^at yesterday in Bytteltoii, in ! iisMsesp6hd session yuhd^r the Extfended -"ffarisdiction' ' 'Act/; There were Several causes (oh the' list, 'almost' all debt'cases; none of them were iried" with a 'juttf: Onfei or two.pases that seemed of, some importance were •postpqned. ■ 1 TKe IBasin^si; 6'f'wHicii 1 we give a report elsewbere/^as comfortably settled'iW "one day, andi: the €6uft adjburried to' sit| again- at Christckurqli on the 10th of '3iine. ■ ;' r' ■ / ' ;■'! The weather is cdldrWet/attd blustering';!too ; touch-so for 6iir friends? of -Circus; iJ whpiave been obliged' vtdpo3fcp6nie'proceedings ■'from the I violence of .the weather, An'entertdnineiat is projectedtomortbw'eVeniis*,t6bethe'lastnight's ! pei'tbrmftrice but'tthe;ff6r the benefit '\ of'tMaster Bird and others df "the dompany.:' Jtn 'becasion ! like-this is likely t6 draw:a;go6d''atteiidance]!es'- i pecially as the* programme of the perfbrmUnee / contains some very agreeable items. We under- j stand that after this week'tlfe company' divides"; * s6me going perhaps to Akaroa.for a.'sftbrt'tim'e, , and then southwards to Otago, sure to brighten 1 the faces of the settieV-s wftei-evei4 they':g6; '