Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 567, 10 April 1858, Page 4

Local Intelligence.

The GHentanner sailed for London on Thursday c v ening, with a fair wind, having on board a cai'go of solely Canterbury produce valued at close to £45,000. The Oriental has cleared with another cargo of solely Canterbury produce which is valued at over £35,000, and she will leave this port on Monday. Thus within a week we are dispatching the produce of this settlement to London to the amount: of nearly £80,000. This fact is the one great'record for the year of our progress. The William and Jane woolship of 1856, the Belisama .and half the Oliver Lang of 1857, the Oriental and Glentanner with part of the Westminster to follow for 1858, are respectively in their tonnage representatives of our income for each year. The exports for the current half-year will be a large increase upon the corresponding half-year of 1857, which amounted to £50,793. Already, in the beginning of the second quarter we have exported above £85,000. The wool alone remaining for shipment during the quarter would be much under-estimated at £15,000, by the addition of which the half-year's exports will become double those of the corresponding half of last year. We compare not less than half-a-year, because our large exports are sometime* in one of the component quarters, sometimes in the other. May our import of labour increase proportionately with our export of produce! ; 1 :

His Honor the Judge arrived overland From Ofcago on Wednesday last, having been absent from Christchurch three weeks on the southern tircuit. There was only one case for trial at Dunedin. One Crawford, indicted for murder, was found guilty of manslaughter, arid sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor. The term of imprisonment which he had already suffered {enjoyed would perhaps be a more correct term for a residence amid the good-fellow-ship of the Otago gaol,) was taken into account in the sentence. The Court sat upon the 25th ult., the day on which the jurors were summoned to attend, a rare occurrence in the southern provinces. There is no other news of interest from Otago. A remarkable sight was witnessed in the streets of Lyttelton yesterday in the funeral of a Maori youth, according to the practice of our country people, and the rites, of the Church of England. The deceased was Te Hone Meki (in English John Mason), about ten years of age, and, when living, a resident of Port Levy. His relations, one of whom is the Native preacher in that bay, with a large concourse of friends, attended the funeral in the English fashion, walking arm in arm behind the coffin from the pah lo the church and thence to the cemeteiy. A similar sight has never before been witnessed in Lyttelton.

The Liverpool and London Fire Insurance Company have sent down to Messrs. Cookson, Bowler, and Co., their agents in this town, a fire engine, with all the apparatus, and a bell. Another bell is destined for Christchurch. The engine is well adapted for this town, the hose being sufficient to reach from the sea to TSxeterstreet. The agents of the Company have arranged to construct an engine house beside their premises, close to the water, and so as to be readily accessible; they will provide for the proper management of the engine in case of its being required, so that on an emergency volunteer help will only be required to the extent that can be readily supplied without the formation of a volunteer corps. The forethought of the Company and their agents deserves our thanks, though we sincerely trust that it may be long before their resources are tested.

Mrs. Foley, whose talents have rendered her as popular an actress throughout New Zealand as she was in Australia, takes her departure today from our shores for Wellington. Even if the inhabitants of the'sister province'were unacquainted with Mrs. Foley's dramatic ability, we could promise that there as elsewhere she would gain golden opinions; but in this case no prediction is necessary; the theatre-goin"1 public of Wellington are, we know, the lady's well tried friends, and will give her warm greeting from the moment of her landing.