JOURNAL OF THE WEEK.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 30, 2 August 1851, Page 5

JOURNAL OF THE WEEK.

A slight shock, very probably occasioned by the almost spent force of a distant earthquake, was experienced- both at Lyttelton and Christchurch on Sunday morning last, about nine o'clock. It was not, we learn, generally noticed, being felt chiefly by persons passive at the time.

The week has been an unpleasant one, from the almost continuous rain, and that lowering aspect, called by old settlers " earthquake weather." The gathering, for all that, at Christchurch on Monday, was tolerably numerous ; the business that was then transacted, made the day perhaps one of the most memorable for some time past. Scarcely any subject could have a more direct bearing upon the prosperity of this settlement, than that canvassed at the meeting referred to, and which we report in full in the body of this paper.

With respect to this town, a strange anomaly calls for notice. It is that the roadway in front of Norwich Quay, the scene of the greatest traffic, should be such an accumulation of mud and water, as it has been this week. "We know not with whom the matter rests, but would suggest that it should be the first to come under macadamizing1 operations. „

It is matter of congatulation that bread, which has for some weeks been at lOd. the 2 lb. loaf, has this week fallen to 7d, although flour still remains at £50. per ton. Our readers will see, from an advertisement in this week's paper, that the Sermon delivered by the Rev. H. Jacobs, at the opening of the new Church on the plains, is about to be printed.