The Lyttelton Times.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 478, 3 June 1857, Page 6

The Lyttelton Times.

ipMneid-dy, June 3f#."

. Wf desire to direct our.:Ceaders' -attention to; the two letters which-appear elsew.bere inj imr columus "to-day, written to hifc Hqajor| "the^ Superintendent" ; Uy the,, caplaiiis; pf'; two ;of the ilarger;.class of ■cpusrmg'^s^els tl;iat. • <; -igiatt ours' o\-es,:in >:jm swer to 3. regu^st for; : jti'forma^p'i'as'tq'thp capabilitiesipf Tiiijanuj *as a rOad^teiaU 'andlandji^^lace.I: ■'- ' It ;is ,jyi|;h. np ,smail,'sntigf4b'tion that, on the perusal these^piinaiisi, iii:om.seameij ; ■: of experience, 'we come: to: the cquclusiyn 'that thetprovlfice -possesrses an additional laruiing p'l.ace.'if not a hiirHorin J on its line.of ; jpoast; and that in aposHfol) "lo.be of i tin .;rnense service to a-jajcge. aivd,,^aluablie.por-; Jtion of the province. ' The-merUs.of/the 'X'h/fM' 11 roadstead have been often urged, Jcinf hfthertq not puch lielieyed -'in. ' fl?he .Jetters we. refer ; to, ,ljow«yer, itiinst plfice -theip beyond.cjuestionjpso much.sp, thattbe •«nj:i r pipat oij .pf'ojjr Superiutendentji pxpress&s iji pppniug the pfesent session, jpf >immi- ; grjanli/.tp be lan.ded there front Englhnd iflirrpi, in-the ',ep,iirs f e of : n.ext .je.ar,.nee'd not be1 now a- .visio»; 'We pbserive •fchat'heavy :nporings have been: ppoyided for '%y ihe.'Go'iincil, for the . roiiidstea4, as'abo a /pilc^fiftd aiEeßi4^F)^.M.agißtefe;|yr the disstrigt,: :t«r,O;piractical steps towards leiiioying /obstacles'from the wayiof ourisettiers.