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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 82, 31 July 1852, Page 7

As occasional dissatisfaction is created by the personal and other effects of individuals being minutely searched at the Custom House at this port, it may be useful to state for the general information of those not engaged in mercantile pursuits, who are in the habit of receiving goods from England, that if their friends were careful always to forward by post a detailed account of the contents of each package, shewing also their cost price—the necessity of minute search would, in many instances, be obviated. This account (of which a duplicate should be placed in the top of the case when the things are all stowed in it) should be forwarded to the agent in Port. Much delay and inconvenience to all parties would be thus avoided, and goods would arrive at their ultimate destination much les.s disarranged than niust often now be the case. An Inquisition was taken on Thursday the 29th instant, on the body of Samuel Prosser, a lunatic, whose body was found floating at about three boats lengths from the end of the Jetty on the previous afternoon. It appeared from the evidence that the unfortunate lad had strayed away from the house where he was lodging, but no evidence of the means by which he came into the water was obtained. The jury, therefore, returned an open verdict. After some discussion the Jury agreed to address a letter to the Coroner, through their foreman, Mr. A. E. White, expressing a decided opinion that an asylum for lunatics with proper means of attention and treatment was indispensable. Simplicity on the Plains!—An incident which created some amusement, occurred last Saturday, when the 2nd edition of the Lyttelkm Times reached Christchurch. A Member of the proposed Athenaeum, whose downright, honest, unsophisticated simplicity is a proverb, on hearing of the change of 'Ministry, exclaimed "God bless me—yon do not mean to say that Mr. Brittan has resigned !" The proceedings in the Resident-Magistrate's Court at Christchurch and Lyttelnm preseni no matter of public interest this week.