CANTERBURY.

Colonist, Issue 95, 17 September 1858, Page 2

CANTERBURY.

A public meeting of the-residents of Lyttelton ' took place at the Town Hall, on Thursday evening, September 2, for the purpose of adopting a memorial on the subject of obtaining a Municipal Institution, when the following memorial was adopted:— " to vis iionok me suraraxTr-NDEST or the province OF OANTF.niJUUY. " The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of Lyttelto'i. humbly s-heweth, — "That tliore is at present no recognised body through whom the inhabitants can express their views and wishes as regaids the expenditure of public money in the making and maintaining the loads and streets and other public whys and water-coiir es.

" That there is no local authority for overseeing the local afiaiis of the community, for verifying the weights and measures, for arranging for the extinction of fires, the suppression of nuisances, and other matters of great importance. " The undersigned therefore pray that an honorary municipal board be established for, .Lyttelton and its . suburbs, to be chosen by. "annual election, from /the constituency, to which boaid shall be- confided the supervision of the expenditure of any sum voted by the Provincial Council for the purposes of'the town, and for the control of matters of local "interest;" v

On the subject of the "weather the Lytlelton Times says: —"Throughout the winter ha£ been worse than any yet experienced in this province by the ' oldest-inhabitants s .Xhcalmogt incessant - ■•." rain has damped tlie^spirits t bf:the,Wost-sanguine. , .. The cause of our '^Misfortunes >is 'not that a much greater quantity of rain'1 has fallen, thaii in other years, but that there has hce^ day "after day of drizzling wet w.eatlier n wj[th intermittent showers.. The sun has not'appeared'for any sufficient length ' oftjme to repair damages, and the, constant soakingt in of the water "has destroyed almost every. road in"the:-provine©." v ~«' • - '' «t v -- •■