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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 641, 24 September 1851, Page 3

The Government brig arrived on Sunday from Lyttelton with four prisoners for trial. It is reported that owing to some irregularity or omission on the part of Mr. Godley, Resident Magistrate at Canterbury, they have been sent without any committal. In the Lyttelton Times of Sept. 13, (received by the Bangalore} a notice appears of the first public ball in the Canterbury settlement, which was given by the Canterbury bachelors at the Mitre Hotel. In the same paper is published the Report from the Committee of Management to the Canterbury Association, London, dated April 25, 1851, from which we learn that 17,500 acres of land had been sold in all up to the Ist March by the Association; that the sum of £lO,OOO had been invested with the Trustees of the Colonial Bishopric’s Fund as an endowment for the proposed new See of Lyttelton ; and that they were under the confident expectation of being able to carry a bill through Parliament during the present session to enable them to obtain a loan for completing the road from Lyttelton to the Plains and other works The previous number of the Lyttelton Times contains a review of Mr, J. Wakefield’s letter to Sir G. Grey. We intend taking an opportunity shortly of noticing this production.