TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2206, 16 January 1868, Page 2

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Cokbk's GABDBNs-This convoniont and agreeale pia Ce of resort was agaiSmina 0 Sp m-.1 a f musements . which were ot he usual descrlp ion, were very satishctonly carried out under the Sin n ■fence of Messrs Coker and Miner MAoißiKßiAu-Ywierd«y at the Mam's

charged with having attempted tu drown hinißolf In tho Avon, and whs remanded till Friday,

TIIH SIMONSBN CoNOBRTB.—Wo MO BOOT to say that tho attendance at tho Town Hall Inst evening whb tint nearly bo forgo its It OBsuredly ought to linvo beon; but, notwlthstanding all this discouragement, tho performances passed off. with tho greatest success. Tho troupe appears nt tho Hull to-night, and to-morrow for the lust time, and, for tho Biikoof tho good tuimo of Cliristchurch, wo hopo to seo bettor houses boforo MOll3. and Madame Simonson leuvo for the North. Narrow Hso'am from Drowning.— About nooii yesterday, a little boy named Robort Sutton, between Bovcn and eight years of ago, was playing on tho bench in Lyttclton, near Messrs Grubb and Allen 8 slip, when by some means or other ho was precipitated into tho water. A ninn named Jamcß Fisher, who had witnessed tho accident went to the assistance of the littlo fellow, but being unable to swim, and it being high water at tho time, could not rescue him. Fortunately, however, assistance was at hand, and a man named McDonald swam in, and succeeded in saving the boy, who was nearly exhausted, having sunk twice before ho Was rescued.

Supreme Court.—The following is a list of the petitions to come on forbearing, before Mr Justice Grcsion, at eleven o'clock, to-day:—Adjourned First Hearings.—Henry Dunsford, Maefarlan; Henry Wnlden, Cottrell; Josepli Tliirwell Dixon, Joynt ; John Fißher, joynt; George Alexander, Slater; Wm. Olliver, Maefarlan; Edward Jas, Pardew, Cottrell; George Corser Saxton, on petition of William Mardon, creditor, Joynt; Edward Scrivcnor, Maefarlan, Final Hearings.—Charles Cecil Bookcs, (adjourned), Slater; Charles Walter Scott Pnrdie, Joynt; Donald Grant, Joynt; loftui Heury Bobbins, W. Williams; Henry Tankard, W. Williams.

The Avon—About half-past 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, the Avon began to riso again, but during the ni«ht the fresh received a check, and the waier was not so high eirly yesterday morning as it was when we last observed it overnight, at which time it had risen about eight ineli s. During ye3terda> forenoon it began to rise again and continued to rise fast until the middle of the day, when it attained a depth of about fourteen inches beyond that of its ordinary condition. Towards evening it began to fall again, and at seven o'clock had fallen an inch and a half, and was still falling. The source of the fresh is, as usual, the Waimakariri, which has again come over at the embankment. But although the North road is flooded, there is not much water in the north and south branches of the river j and the discolouration of the Avon is so great for bo moderate a fresh, that grave suspicions are entertained that there is something wrong with the Waimakariri higher up.