TUESDAY'S PUBLIC MEETING AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 1 May 1852, Page 8

TUESDAY'S PUBLIC MEETING AT CHRISTCHURCH.

[From an " Eye Witness."] Quod vidimus testamur.

A little after noon, about half-a-dozen gentlemen, among whom the only member of the Council of Land Purchasers was Mr. Brittan, had assembled at the White Hart Inn. Mr. Packer and Mr. Brittan had some little conversation in public on the subject of the meeting, while waiting to see if others would arrive; and Mr. Brittan was heard to say that he was prepared to explain the views which had actuated the Council in dissolving the Land Purchaser's Society, although it was desirable that all further proceedings should originate with individuals not members of the Council. It was also asked repeatedly " who had called the meeting," as the notice cailing it had not a single name to it, but to this question no answer was given. After some little further consideration, however, but before any meeting had been constituted by the choice of a Chairman, Mr. Brittan vanished ; and his example was followed by several others. There were then five adults and a boy left in the room, and Mr. Packer was moved into the chair. Three others entered the room immediately afterwards, so that the meeting consisted of eight, including the chairman. Mr. Hart then proposed a resolution, to the effect that the time had now arrived for a general organization of the colonists, nearly in the words of advertisement. But a motion for adjournment, on the ground of the insufficient attendance, was made by Mr. E. J. Wakefield, who proposed to attempt at least to remedy the blunders made in calling this meeting, by inserting a requisition in the next paper for an eiening meeting on an early day ; such requisition to state the fact that the object of the •meeting was to consider the proposal of the Land Purchaser's Society for a more general organization of the inhabitants for public purposes, and to be signed by those present, and by as many others, of all classes of the community, who might be willing to do so, as should remove the suspicions unfortunately created by the nameless advertisement. This motion was seconded by Mr. Sutcliffe, and unanimously carried; Mr. Hart having withdrawn his motion. The requisition will, it is to be presumed, appear in the columns of the Lyttehon Times.