CANTERBURY.

Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1413, 20 March 1860, Page 5

CANTERBURY.

By the Airedale we have received papers from this Province to the 14th instant. •

Mr. Hall, the resident Magistrate, after a residence of eight years at Canterbury, was about to pay a visit to the mother country. Alluding to this event, the Lyttelton Times of the 14th Inst., says : —

. We are glad that Mr.. Hall has not left us without a marked leave taking ; and we are the more pleased that that leave taking has been of such a kind as to bear . evidence at once to the friendliness of a peculiar class of this community and to the faithful discharge of the? duties of his office by the gentleman to whom the farewell was given. Mr. Hall, who has been connected with our public affairs fn*m the earliest hour of our self-governing era, as not a man to be lost or forgotten ; he will be very much missed in the place which he- has left. Though we have given him the measure which is meeted out to every public man, we must at parting bear witness to his many good qualities ; he has been an admirable example to a community where laxity is the rule, of untiring devotion to his public duties, however various or arduous their character. Perhaps a better testimony to Mr. Hall's usefulness in the sphere iv which he has been cast could not be found than in the ad<k-9ss from the natives published in our columns to day. The address speaks for itself and needs no comment from us. Its quaint and simple language breathes a spirit of mingled confidence and attachment, and affords a proof that the Maories are not slow to appreciate the faithful discharge of the onerous trust which devolves on the administrator of justice.