Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 629, 17 November 1858, Page 4

Local Intelligence.

At the second land sale of the season, held at the Northern Hotel, Kaiapoi, by Mr. Wylde, on Saturday, the 13th Nov., one half acre section in Sewell Street, sold for £120, and one of the same size in Peraki Street sold for-£55. No other sections were Bold, the attendance being small. The adjourned sitting of the Supreme Court will be held on Thursday, the Court opening at 11 a.m., for hearing the famous (?) libel cases from Wellington, and the painfully unpleasant assault case Schroder v. Baker. We perceive,^amongst the passengers from Auckland by the Gil Bias, Mr. Gustav Droege, the proprietor of the' German new«pnper in Adelaide, and late proprietor and editor of the ' Cosmopoliti,' (also a German Journal) in victoria. ■ - The 'Vienna Zeitung,' of the 3rd April, states that the Academy of Science and Fine Arts at Vienna had granted to this gentleman a diploma by which he is appointed an honorary member of that institution, for h*w having

published the first journal in the German language, in the Southern hemisphere. Pbovincial Council. —The following' was omitted from our report of the proceedings of Tuesday the 9th instant: — StTKVET OK BANK'S PENINSULA. According to notice, Mr. White asked the Government what steps were being taken as to the appoinment of a surveyor or surveyors for Bank's Peninsula. He took this opportunity of calling attention to the great inconvenience experienced by land purchasers in the Akaroa district for want of proper surveys; Sections in great numbers, more especially in Okain's Bay, had been purchased, sold and resold on a simple endorsement of the license to occupy, without any definition of the purchase. This had caused great dissatisfaction, more especially as—should any of such endorsers die-—no clear title could ever be given to the property^. He trusted the Government would lose no time in appointing surveyors for the district. Mr. Cass, in reply, begged to assure the honourable member that this want on the part of the inhabitants of the Peninsula had not been lost sight of. Mr. Shaw had been appointed as surveyor for the district, and was now at work on the northern side ; and contracts would be entered into immediately with Mr. Harman to work up all the sections at present unsurveyed on the southern side. When the maps were completed, he purposed sending a copy for public inspection to the town of Akaroa, in which all new purchases would be from time to time carefully plotted in.