LYTTELTON.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 637, 10 September 1851, Page 3

LYTTELTON.

Our readers will learn with deep regret that the English news of this week records the secession of Mr. Simeon to the church of Rome. Mr. Simeon has resigned his seat in Parliament, and of course has ceased to be a member of the Canterbury Association. Little as we or any of our readers sympathize with Mr. Simeon in this step, it is impossible that we can forget the warm and steady interest which he always took in the affairs of the Association, and his generous and friendly attention to the colonists ; or that we can regard otherwise than with most painful regret, the fatal error into which he has fallen. It is pleasing to us to be able to add that Capt. Simeon, who has been the chairman of the colonists since the first ships sailed, and who may shortly be expected in the colony, disapproves as strongly as any of ourselves of this step on the part of his brother, and does not in any degree share the opinions which led to it. Lyttelton Times.

A fine vessel of 900 tons was christened Canterbury, by Lady Lyttelton, in May last. She is one of the fleet shortly to be due* The ceremony took place after a public breakfast given at the East India Docks to the first portion of the main body.— lbid.