Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 494, 29 July 1857, Page 5

Local Intelligence.

■phe Provincial Council of Canterbury is at Bt dead: it has been dead now for a fortnight; Kre is no ' honourable house' in existence; Bre is not an M-P.Q. in the province; there; B not even electors, for the very fact of the ; ■solution of the Council in this case renders B electoral roll null and void for the election ■mother house, and every thing is to be begun Bnovo. Eegistration, election, representation ■ three ascending steps to legislation, and we B at the present moment at the bottom of all. HI shall publish the provisions of the ' Reform' Blinance of last session as soon as we have got Hof the first press of English news. We ■Ist beg our readers to pay particular attention Hits provisions. ijrhe ceremony of laying the foundation of Hrist's College was performed on. Friday Brning last. After morning prayers in the ■prch,at which there was a large attendance, the wrden, Sub-Warden, and Fellows of the H|lege formed in procession and walked to the H of the intended building, in a bend of the ■|v Avon, forming the boundary of the Bwernment domain. The weather was beau■nl and most suited to the occasion, there being ■pßher wind nor hot sun to hurt the uncovered P*M. The ceremony was opened by the choir, peer the direction of Mr. Merton, singing • palm, after which the forms of prayer, gjieation^ itc. were gone through, and the act iTfoundation was performed by his Lordship, Pi Bi&hop of Christchurch, Warden of the l™6^', A. psalm of "praise concluded the Pftmonial service, which was simple but striP™jj?> and, as the harbinger of many and good P*ks to be performed through the same inF*nenta%, bore a deep significance to the PjJHfew- The site is beautifully chosen, in a r"» ot the river which flows past on the sunny Ft; ™6 college buildings are to form a handF"jfe quadrangle with the principal front togwis th e towO) from wh - ch Land-office) F* dwtant about half-a-mile. L2 n Saturday, a meeting largely attended by glgsentatives of the different interests in the E^mce was held at the Royal Hotel in IgtchurcL The object of the meeting is Epwu^bythe subjoined resolutions, which Mivem their simplicity; though we could E&J\? eh on the subject, we are sure that PWeuow-settlers need but to know the proEfeii •3 °m in {t with all tteir hearts. F £ S°7 lng are ih. e "solutions :— tefij: "5* a committee be appointed to raise gppwons for a testimonial to James Edward WS 17^" SuPermterident of Canterbury. committee shall wait upon His ZiT" w> ascertain his wishes as to the approSJg n h of BUch tpstimonial, and that the comjjV. oe empowered to appropriate it accordfionor ? a| a puUic brealcfast be given to His yWnVK baP. eni»tendent and Mrs. FitzGerald, Khrl° CCasion the testimonial be presented. *Part?of(S mittee .consistin& of residents in Ht.'C R tm6! P rovince was appointed, and ••i'Tres.,,", • Blak, lst? n named as Secretary X f «u«sv ;h e and all the committee will

be most happy to receive subscriptions for the proposed object. We may add that about £180 was collected m the room itself, on Saturday The committee have appointed to sit at the Royal Hotel on Saturday next at 12 o'clock, and there will be a public meeting convened at the same place in about three weeks' time, to receive the report of the committee, of which due notice will I c given. We beg our Lyttelton readers to notice an advertisement in our columns to-day calling a meeting at the Town Hall on Saturday, to arrange for the formation of a school of Instrumental Music. The constitution of the Choral Society, the now eminent school of vocal music, is the pleasant result of a similar application to the public.

The weather until Monday was most lovely: somethingtoo fine to last long ; and accordingly on Monday it began to blow hard from the south-west; and on that night and yesterday morning an amount of snow fell, such as we in Lyttelton are quite unused to. The weather of course was exceedingly cold,buthas now changed to fine again, proving that the sum of a few ' bursters' which blow from time to time, and at long intervals, is our real winter; that, as a season, we have scarcely one to be be called."