TOWN AND COUNTRY NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1092, 29 April 1863, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY NEWS.

Land Sales.—The total amount of land sold during the past week amounted to 4283 acres. Meeting in Lyttelton.—A numerously signed requisition lias been presented to the Resident Magistrate of Lyttelton, requesting him to call a meeting, to consider whether some alteration cannot be effected in the Public House Ordinance, as it affects the licensing system. The meeting is convened for this evening at the Town Hall. Errors of the ' Press.'—Several important errors have appeared lately in the ' Press,' which, we presume, purports to give correct intelligence. In reporting the proceedings of a late meeting at the Universal Hotel, it states that the meeting was held for the purpose of eliciting an expression of opinion respecting the loss of the license of that house. This was not the case. Again, the meeting was not held on Saturday evening, nor was Dr. Motley in the chair". In the shipping intelligence, it is stated that the Choice arrived at Lyttelton, via Dunedin, from Melbourne. This is incorrect. The Choice could not reach Dunedin at all, and had to run up the West Coast, making Lyttelton, via Cooks Straits. The cargo by that vessel is also imperfectly reported. Something Like an Hotel.—A Hint for Canterbury Publicans.—A hotel has just been completed in St. Louis, which is thus described :—lt is eight stories high, contains 515 rooms, 21 parlours 27 acres of plastering, 7 acres of flooring, 32 miles of bell-wire, 9 J miles of base board, 12 miles of gas, steam, and water-pipe, 1£ mile or 1,980 yards of hall, 810 windows, and 14,000 feet of painted imitation of cornice. The quantity of bricks used in the building is 8,000,000. In the basement there is a railway running the entire length, for the transportation of heavy articles, and above are two steam elevators for lifting fuel and baggage from the ground to the floors above."