LYTTELTON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 596, 19 April 1851, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

g| The Travancore has arrived and has discharged her living cargo of 161 souls upon hir shores. The immigrants are all in good lealth, and have had a prosperous voyage. They lave landed under more favourable circumstances than those from the Isabella Herin the beauty of an autumn summer, instead of a cold and merciless pelting rain. The immigration barracks which have been horougbly cleaned and whitewashed for their iccupation, are again filled. On Thursday the first ordinary Meeting of he Society of Land Purchaseis under the lew regulations, was held at the Land Office it Christchurch, and the report of the comnittee presented. This is the first meeting which has taken place at Christchurch, and iroves the desire of the colonists to make the tapital as far as possible the centre of busiless of the settlement. — Lyttelton Times, sth April. The arrival of the Gazelle from Van Diemen’s Land last Saturday, in addition to a ;argo of other useful commodities for a new settlement, brought some excellent horses, tfhich have sold for prices averaging, as we bear, forty pounds a head. On Tuesday, April 8, fifteen sections of land, each a quarSer of an acre in extent, forming part of the ®fty acres of Rural Land selected by the Rev. Dudley, on the west side of the town of jjLyttelton, and of the rural land with which She college is endowed, were put up to auc|jhQn hy Mr. Tulloch. Fourteen out of the Rfteen were sold at the average price of £lO, Bo that three acres and a half of the rural

j|aud in this choice, has realized almost the --whole price of the fifty acres, including the Rown sections attached. Me shall be curious see what the town sections themselves will gjletch at the auction which is to take place [next week, It appears from the advertiseBnent that a considerable number are to be offered for sale. k On Thursday morning we had a severe |gale of wind from the southward. It came Kn without much warning at an early hour, Bnd the small crafts which had not taken up Jierths at a sufficient distance from the jetty, |*ere in considerable danger. One cutter, the SWilliam and John, was laid on shore at high ■Water, having dragged her anchor so far that Bhe could not have ridden at low water. She ■escaped damage, being hauled up by the hands Bn the jetty. The Gazelle and the Wellington their anchors. The Wellington especially, although with three anchors down, pad a very narrow escape. We were astopished to see her however with 'topmasts and ■yards aloft, as if in fine weather. The Tkctpancore, with one good anchor and the seventy fathoms of cable which she let go on arri■VlnB> never moved from her berth. u gales of wind are not unfrequent ■ n t’ le winter months, it is evident of what ■great value good moorings would be to this ■ar our. The harbour is perfectly safe ; but ■ essels should not be tempted by the anxiety ■th? ! SCharge car S° speedily, to anchor so near | c i J ett y as Hot to allow room for paying out thn< e ’ ° r e ,tt’ n g go a second anchor before hey are April 12.