Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 627, 10 November 1858, Page 6

Local Intelligence.

, Mr. Wylde held a land sale at Kaiapoi. on Saturday, October 30th, which was well attended. Two quarter-acre sections, with frontage to Charles Street, sold for £105 each. One small section with 27 feet frontage to Charles Street, situated between the bridge and the river, sold also for £105; or at the rate of about £1800 per acre.

The Supreme Court held a sitting proformd yesterday morning, that being the day appointed for the commencement of the sitting on the civil side. Mr. H. J. LeCren was admitted to make an apology for his absence when summoned as d grand juror at the late criminal sittings, and was discharged on payment of costs. Further than this there was no business transacted, and the court adjourned till Tuesday next, unless parties and witnesses should sooner arrive from Wellington.

The inquest on" the body of the man who was^ found dead after exposure to the weather during the night of a sou-wester, near Mount Grey, was held on Saturday last, at the Lion Hotel, Bangiora, before Dr. Dudley, J. P., and a respectable jury of whom Mr. George Thomson was foreman. The evidence was complete as far as it went; showing that a large party had started from Double Corner late in the evening, Boirie: of whom went to the Saltwater Creek, and others to Mount Grey. Within a short distance of the latter place the deceased gave up, unstrapped his blankets and prepared to camp. His two companions went on, and returning in the morning found him stretched on his back with his arms spread out, quite dead. A little tobacco was found in his hand, cut up.'as if he had been, overcome when about to comfort himself with a smoke. It appears that the name of the unfortunate man was James Perceval, and that he had been packer at the Double Corner shearing, a labour which no doubt rendered him less fit for a journey. The verdict was in accordance with the evidence, ' Death from exhaustion, followed by exposure;' and the jury added the following note to the finding: "The jury cannot separate without expressing their opinion that had ordinary assistance been afforded by his companions after thoir arrival at the Mount Grey station, the death of the deceased might have been averted." The wool clip is beginning to come down rapidly. Some quantity ia already in LytteHon, and the Btores at Kaiapoi and on the Heathcote are filling gradually. Them are about 250 baleu at tho former place,