LYTTELTON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 581, 26 February 1851, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

® [From the Lyttelton Times, February 15.] The workmen have commenced macadamizing the streets ; a most important work, not only to save the inhabitants from the .clouds of dust, which prove so great an annoyance at present, but also to save the roads, the surface of which is now composed only of clay, from being cut up by the heavy rains in the winter. B The road from the ferry - over the Heathcote to Christchurch is commenced in earnest. (Sixty Englishmen and forty Maories are at work, the whole road is to be completed by the 15th of April. The works have been opened in six places at once. A deep trench is dug on each side, and the earth thrown up gu the middle, forming an embankment on the top of which the road rur\s. The ditch on either side forms an effectual fence to the Hands selected on either side ; and the earth [thrown up in many places proves the richness and fertility of the soil. J Those who have visited the roads speak well of the progress made in the first week, and are highly pleased with the manner iu which the work is performed. ■ Our harbour has lost its busy appearance iJo-day, a fair wind having tempted many of the craft to sail. Voyage of the “Castle Eden.”— The Castle Eden 930 tons, Commander Timothy Thornhill, J. B. Haylock, SurgeonrSuperintendent, sailed from Gravesend on jSept. 28th, and from Plymouth on Oct. 3, having on board 27 cabin passengers, amongst whom were Dr. Jackson, the Bishop Designate of Lyttelton, with bis wife and family, Lord Frederic Montague, and several other find-purchasers. She also brought 32 iorecabin, and 145 steerage passengers. After laving Plymouth she met heavy weather for two days, which compelled her to return to the Sound, from which she finally sailed on the Bth. During the first month no incident ef any importance occurred to vary the monotony of a voyage, the usual amount of Ra-sickness occasioned the usual amount of discomfort, and some more serious illness. ■When off the Cape de Verde Islands, symptoms of the hooping cough appeared amongst ■

the steerage passengers, which must have '&en caught from a child who came on board a party of visitors when the vessel was "lying in the docks, and who was immediately twined out when his disorder was discovered hy the Surgeon-Superintendent. The heat iti the tropics was very great, the number of •ick increased, and on Nov. 1, one of the jjeerage passengers died. “The line” was Jtssed on the 12th November, with less rifbrous observance of the rites of Neptune |&n are frequently permitted. Shortly after entering the S.E. trades, the Surgeon-Super-intendent came to the conclusion that, in conHquence of the general state of the health of We passengers, and the condition of the protons, it would be advisable to touch at the gape of Good Hope, or at some port in South gnienca. The hooping cough became preWent; several cases of fever occurred, and We medicine-chest required replenishing. On w 39th November the course of the vessel altered, and on the 12th December the was mt- - *■ wao MBWpt'GU uh vapG JLUWII. A 118 Sgstle Eden sailed again on the 21stDecem■r passengers having greatly benefited rest and by the supply of fresh provi- ’ and uuer a tolerably favourable run >nd the southward of Stewart’s Island, the ■gh land of Bank’s Peninsula was seen on J| e 3rd of February. Contrary and strong s detained the ship beating off the end ■ ,le Peninsula, until Friday, the 7th inst., — en she anchored in Port Victoria. One of || passengers, Mr. Leslie, who had been sinkKi °i" S °r rae t ’ me ’ th 6 morning after the ° le Three births, three a ls , and three marriages, occurred during |g °jage ; and had it not been for the ne-

cesMty of putting into the Cape, the voyage of the Castle Eden would have been probably as exped.tious as that of the other ships chartered by the Association.