Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 665, 23 March 1859, Page 5

Local Intelligence.

Yesterday afternoon the ship Regina, our second wool Tship of the season, hoisting her last bale on board ran it up to the yard-arm, hoisted her colours and fired a gun; She may be expected to leave for London about the end of this week. :

The Queen from Otago brings us a fortnight's papers from Dunedin. They contain no foreign news of later date than what, we have already received, and but little of local interest Among the latter in to be noticed as most prominent, a meeting at.lnvercargill, at which resolutions were paused blaming the Provincial Government roundly tor neglect in not expending the sum voted by the Council for the formation of roads in the southern district j and also requesting a further grant of. money. Another, resolution deprecated the casting of any slur on the harbour of the New River, in consequence of the North Star having gone ashore there. A third declared the conviction of the meeting that the New Provinces Act was the best possible remedy for the grievances of which the district of Murihiku had to. complain. A fourth reorganised the 'Committee of Separation'and declared the approval of the meeting of the steps taken by the Committee since its formation. Other resolutions referred to the practice in the central and district land-offices, the desirability of a visit from Dr. Hochstetter, and various other topics. An intention was stated of convening another meeting in about two months. In commenting upon the proceedings of the meeting both journals assert the impropriety of a change. The other piece of information which we gather is that on the 9th of March 60 town sections in Dunedin and Port Chalmers were sold by auction at an average of £15 3s, 4d. per quarter-acre.