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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 14, 8 November 1843, Page 2

I ! ,e . Thomas Lord arrived in our luuborn- on Monday evening last, li'mim Sidney, bunging |i„„. 1 vslr intelligence up lo the 30tli of June. In trade w as likely tu improve, and the dwindling into insignificance, A proposal had beer, mude to assassinate Daufel O’Cniinc 11, Esq. We are sorry to find that mallets were inn very unsei= > led (dareTOreland. From the Sydney Papers wc leant (hat (be following vessels are laid on for An< k land,—l'll. Diana, brig ; Lady of St, Kit,la, schooner Trini tad, ba.qtie ; City of Sydney, t„ig. The P, naves, -.hip, and the Tyrian, barque, for p, M l NirdioLon The Commercial affairs were still in a very depressed stale It i* reported by *omo of die Sydney Paper* lhat emigration, oil a large scale, was to b< ix-suim;d, to Now South Wales, We doubt i( as •hey are something like ourselves—short of money for such purposes* -Jin our columns wilt he found such extract as we deem of most importance. t he Bangalore was hourly expo ted in Sydney with our newly appointed Governor. The Government Bug Victoria, nriived yesterday from Port Nicholson, via N elnon, Passengers, Mis. Roberton, Dr. Wrigld, P. l). H o gg, E,,,'. and master Spain. Tile Nelson papers me up lo (let. 21st aud contain some very interesting matter, but as it was late yesterday evening betore we received them, our time will not admit of making extiacts until our next. We perceive that a meeting was held, and an Address adopted, which was numerously signed by the merchants and others of I 01 1 I\icholsou, to present a Congratulatory addiess to P. D. llogg, Esq. Collector of Customs, prior to his departure. ~5 C feral other meetings had been lately held i«

Wellington, one on the sth Oct/o the purpose of adopting a memorial to Captain Fitzroy, R. N, the newly appointed Governor, on the present state of the colony • sod a memorial to the Officer Administering the Government on the subject of the Land Claims, On Saturday evening, Oct. 14, a meeting was held at Barrett’s Hotel, to consider the pro* piiety of entering into a subscription, for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the memory of those who were slain at Ilia Wairua Massacre, A meeting of the working classes was also held, 011 helGthOct. to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the Agepj; of the New Zealand Compan y for employ on the roads. Business seems very bad indeed at Wellington. His Honor the Chief Justice, alter disposing of what cases were for tiial, le t Fort Nicholson, accompanied by the Registrar, Thomas Quthwait, Esq, on Oct. 13, for Auckland, to travel oyprland; they niay therefore be expected in a day or two. From our Nersop papers we find affairs in a very unsettled slate between the natives and Europeans. Some time since a memorial was »ent to the Governor of Van Ijjeipen’s Land, from the inhabit* mts of Nelson, praying that lie might send some of Ihe troops at his disposal to their assbtauce. Sir Eardley W 7 ilniot, in a manner highly honour* ible to [him. instantly chartered the Emerald Isle, which bad just nniyed in Hobart Town, and sent her off with 100 soldiery for our protection. The Emerald Isle anivecj in Bolton Roads on Vlonday evening, Oct. 23. The officer iu com* mand.hnd received instructions from Sii E. VVil<not‘, not to disembark J,is men, nor to remain •here, unless he found them in a siqte of actual collision with the n itivc-i. This not being the case, tie ft It himself bound fo proceed on his voyage to Sydney. 'i lie Mandarin, from London for Nelson, we believe witti immigrants, had arrived at Hobart Town when the Emerald Isle left, having put in for water, ~

The packet ship Syilnpy, .500 tons, was advertised in the Morning Chronicle of June 29, to sail for Wellington, Nelson, and Auckland. The time of sailing was not named. The cheap passage system is adopted; the terms being, chief cabin, £42 f tor cabin, £‘2o.