Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 546, 27 January 1858, Page 5

Local Intelli gence.

Theatre ROYAiuM^The -performances on Friday evening last were a revival of the ' Lady of Lyons,' and a' repetition of ' How to Settle Accounts jWithj y.our r iiaupdress..! , The ■ house was rather thin ly : attended/* In the Lady of? Lyons the .scenery,anil appliancesHvhieh havte been added to' the- sta^e1 'since'the last representation of the piece removed the unpleasant delays which then occurred b*etween every scene, and, ;so fiir, ; an improvement, was manifest. We were imuch pleased on whole with this reproduc- ' tion'of :6uf favourite'-^lky, only regretting that forgef fulness of parts by some of the performers interfered so mtich with .theothers. . The farce was enormously improved .on i Eriday. - Such laughter,we have, nev.er[heard,>.among any audience, as greeted it;.throughout its, whole course. Everyi.one of the :perfqrmers therein deserves special, praise. The GovERiqBENT.—Mr. Harman. resigns his seat in the Executive' Council. ■ ■"■ Frost.—One morning last week, a frost of sufficient severity' to injure the potato tops, lay • bn the ground; in the neighbourhood; of Kaiapoi. ( The Bishopric ,os| Neiison.— -Referring to a ■. paragraph above 'quoted, "respecting, the five Bishopricsl' of :New.? Zealand, .we ' find by the latest accounts," that instead1 of the Yen. C. J. Abraham,,the.Rev. E.;Hobhouse.'B.D., Fellow I Of Mertoii College;' Oxford, has -been nominated Ito the of :Nels6rt, and will be consetsrate'd:':by? the Archbishop of Canterbury, so soon as the necessary legal, formalities can be completed.