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Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 657, 23 February 1859, Page 5

I m A meeting1 of the, Christchiirch Cricket || Club was held on Saturday at Mr. Stringer's, i; |; pursuant to notice—Mr. C. C. Bowen in the ff< chair. Mr. T. W. Maude was elected hon. |,'Secretary, Messrs. Croft and Ward having gfjpsigned. A committee was appointed to Xilalce immediate steps towards forming a good | || ground on Hagley Park, and building- a ": | cricket house, &c. ; upwards of fifty names I on the list of members, and sixteen I j'fjrentlemen were proposed for election on H .^Saturday next, to-which day the meeting f <b|has adjourned. , There appears every prospect i|pf good cricketing on the club ground next Reason. -The second' Christchurch club, the , :*r Albion," is in full vigour, besides the ,club J Mr. Brittan's ground at Avonside; so that 1 game is not likely to die out for want of demulation. v jI1 Collections are going on at Christchurch in ;<aid of the portion allotted out of the Goyern- , 1 nient grant for- the enlargement of the present churchj and the building of a new [district church on the church reserve in Man'^Chester Street, on the northern. side of the driver. Enough money has been subscribed kto cai'ry out both these objects. We that a considerable sum has also P been subscribed for the proposed cathedral, in $?*, addition to £1000 allotted, to that building *$ out of the grant. ."■: . : p On Monday a maori boat came up to port I'1 from the fishing grounds off Port Levy X' loaded with hapuka, of which fish there could . if, not have been less than a ton weight in the <$~boat. The natives, having such a quantity, If'at first -offered the fish at 4s. each, but as

I piu*chasers surrounded them in numbers the f Tpriee soon rose to 55., then 6s. and 75., and ' the whole cargo was. quitted in the course of I the afternoon, the last on hand realising, we unI -derstand, no less than 10s. each. Several I were despatched the next morning to Christ--1 church by the cart.: The fish is' favourably I known for its excellent table qualities, and it ft is time that its abundance near our shores was 'if more generally made known, that our house|f keepers may have a change from ordinary beef [rand mutton to lay upon the table. • I The news from the North, by; the White Swan is scanty. The Governor intends to come' South ni the Iris, which was in the Auckland waters ; his visit it is said will shortly take place. The Bishop of Wellington was coming to Auckland in the John Scott. The native land purchase question is enforcing attention. The Provincial Government is in the market for a loan of £40,000

I for harbour and city improvements. Dr. [ Hochstetter was fully employed. The SydI ney report on tie coal is not satisfactory. In I Nelson 216 dunces of gold had been received 1 from the1 diggings,/,: In-/Wellington the l application to the Supreme Court for an injunction to restrain the Superintendent from I spending money was dismissed with costs. f These items, as well as the English and other 1* news which we give elsewhere, we gather from papers handed to us by the officers and one of the passengers by the White Swan, to whom we must express our obligations.