The Lyttelton Times.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 582, 2 June 1858, Page 5

The Lyttelton Times.

Wednesday, Ju/ie, 2nd. Letters from Auckland describe the con-; dition of things ■ there as being most agreeable for the • few stranger Members of Assembly who'had: been so fortunate as to arrive there at. the commencement of 'the Session.: "Balls arid parties were; numerous and every form of hospitality was; exhibited fey the residents .of the - city to. their honorable guests. Under these circumstances.we can imagine that the patience of our representatives would not soon be exhausted j delays from southern policy or southern winds, woidd he. borne with exempl &ry resignation for at least a little tiriie; it wouid bWwithout aiiy serious display (6f annoyaiice: that honorable gentlemen w.puld consent, >s;' we learn they had .doii'e, to. days a,'week! And then; for, the busy r minded ones there \vould be plenty of work on committees, or the opportunity would be seized for investigation into the. geography, social state, and politics proper of the province of Auckland.7 But this could hot last very long: two months of comparativetrifling would certainly weary '" out; all 'patience. By this time members are loathing the weak diet of the routine and unimportant business which was to engage their attention till the representation should be completed from all quarters, and are yearning for the hard meat of the Session. The southern gentlemen begin to remember that it is two months and more since they left their homes, and are anxious to get through the work and be done with it.

Ministers too will no doubt consider that while the House is. in good humour and the disposition of its members is known, it would be as wellto get their pet ideas Perfected, and will not refuse to bringdown their measures of importance if success is certain and a good excuse is presented. That good excuse we fear is already offered them. • ;

Let us see what will form their grounds

of calculation. Two members from Otago and two from. Canterbury may bes expected to arrive, but not till the end of the third mprith: of the session: News will have been received from Wellington that the writs were .received "tliere only seven 'days instead of fifteen before they were returnable, and were-therefore void. New, writs f and a,postponed, election will take about two, months loiiger • and'the Wellington members, might be up about the middle of. if i;hey go; but the probabiUtyis that they will not go,at all. , The Nelsoners hayeVorie, "man, ready (Mr. Domet^),' and';three candidates for the vacaneiesj two of whona (Messrs. Weld and Monro) will not promise to attend: the third does not say anything on the subject. New Plymouth we will suppose has been filled up, byjthis ; time. Will it then be considered worth : while to wait for the Southern members before commencing the most important business. We rather think lit will be found that the Assembly has gone to work in utter despair,,ahd its members will be met by the new arrivals, just returning to private life, haggard and exhausted fi;oln the debates, in place of sporting in. gaiety and pleasure as they are now ''described. ■••.<:..