DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 34, 28 March 1844, Page 2

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Post Office.— We are sorry that there is another change taken place at the Post Office. Since our arrival in Auckland this department has been under tbe direction of some ten or a dozen various gentlemen, but in our opinion uo person whilst in charge of the Post Office has given that satisfaction to the pablic which was experienced whilst VV. VV. Barrow, Esq,, had the management, and we are heartily sorry he has left.

New Member of the Legislative Council. It is with no ordinary degree of pleasure that we have to inform our readers that His Excellency the Governor, has been pleased to offer the vacant seat in the Legislative Council, to oui highly respected townsman, Wm. Brown, Esq. of the firm of Brown and Campbell, which that Gentleman baa kindly accepted. We hope tosee Mr.B.ln the Council aa we have seen hint out of it, viz, a truly upright and conscientious citizen. Mechanics’ Institute.— We perceive this building is nearly completed, and we hope there will be no time lost on the part of the managing committee in announcing the Opening Lectnre. This lustia itition, if properly conducted, will afford mach instruction and amusement to the working classes. If the committee could prevail on Mr. Oulbwait to give the Opening Lecture we are sure the building would be well filled as we have heard many of the inhabitants express a wish to hear Mr. Outhwait give a second Lecture on Music.

Land Claims Commissioners. —By the Go= rernment Gazette of Tuesday last, we perceive that R. A. Fitzgerald, Esq. has been appointed an additional Commissioner for the investigation of the Land Claims, We are sure this appointment will give general satisfaction.*

Shortland Crescent. —We are glad to pera ceive that this public thoroughfare is being very' much improved by having broken stones laid down on it after being levelled. We would ask, one® more, when is the * Ligar Canal’ lobe covered over, or is it to remain as a trap for tbe unweary ? where it is most probable many lives may be lost when the wet weather sets in, if something is not immediate! y“done to put a stop to this Public Nuisance,

Leoislatitb Council .— In the Gazette of Tuesday last we perceive a notice of tbe further adjournment of the Legislative Council, from the 9th of April to Friday the 3rd of May, when the Council will meet and proceed to the dispatch of public business.

Annual Licensing Meeting. —A Genera Meeting of the Justices of tbe Peace for the Town and District of Auckland, will be held at the Police Office, Auckland, on Tuesday ine 16th of April next, for the purpose of granting Licenses for the sale of Spirituous and Ftrmented Liquors.

A Man Droitnbd. —On Sunday last three men left Auckland in a boat to go to Rangitoto (which place they readied within a quarter of a mile), when the boat npsel, two of the men stuck to ber hut die third, in attempting to swim in the shore, gut drowned, The body of the unfortunate man hos not yet been foandrf Royal Victoria Theatre. — According to announcement ibis place of amusement was opened on Monday evening when the * Seminal’ was produced in a very creditable manner. Our space will not admit of our entering into particus Ur*, but the piecee selected seemed to give faction, and the Theatre opens again this evening a« will be seen on reference to our advertising cr lurans. Notick to Mariners. — Harbour Master’s Office, Auckland, 7th Mareh, A Buoy painted Red. with a White Head, Las been placed abont a strip’* length to the Northwnd «f a sunken Rock lying shorn oue miU and a quarter to the Eastward of the Island * liri Tin Matangi.’ This Ruck lies nearly in a line between the Peaks of Rangitoto and the little Barrhr Island, and has abnut two fel water over it at low water’ A similar Buoy La« also been placed over the Rock lying to the N. N. Eastward of the North Head of this Harbour. This Rock has six feer of water over it at the lowest spring rides, and can easily be avoided by keeping towards mid-channel between tbe North Head and Rangitoto, or with a fair wind passing about midsway between the Buoy and the North Head. DAVID ROUGH, Harbour Master. Tbe whaling brig Clarence put into the Bay of Islands last week in distress, having lost her main, mast in a gale ot wind off the coast. The Woodlaik Captain Hoorv, a Whaler belonging to Sydney, and the Lancaster, an American whaling ship are now lying in the Harbour of Mungauui, Doubtless Bay. taking in Provisions. Ihe London Packet an American whaler, and Captain West, with a Urge American thip, have refitted there tbisstason. Captain Collins, Captain Tabor, and Captain Topham, with their ships are oraising off the coast, and are expected in tile above bat hour daily, having sent word to that effvot, and provisions are being stored for then). This fine harbour is now much frequented by the American whalers as they are not molested by the Custom Home gentry. A Jonathan. — A few days ago, we mentioned the fact ihai a painter in this city had readied an extraordinary degree of accomplishment in Iris trade. He painted a pine shingle, so exactly imitating tnsrble, that when he threw it into the river it in= stantly sunk to the bottom. The Philadelphia North American attempts to demo'ish our statement by the insertion, that a sigi) painter in Phil*delphia had painted a raw heel st> ak exquisitely, that the dogs wag their tails wishfully every time they pass the window. The Cincinnati Microscope, however, hsc rapped the climax, by describing die woikot an artist in that city, who painted upon a canvass a locomotive steam engine, which, as lie gave die finishing stioke, burst through tils wall, run down the street, river the lulls, aiulj,h.te not since been heard ot!— Picayune. A inau is supposed to be tolerably well occupied when be pas n wite on one arm, a baby on the other, earning a basket and a cane in Iris hands, a cigar inh s month, and a hopeful heir holding on to the $1 iits of pjs oat.

f Colonial Secretary's OJ/ice, Auckland , 26/A March f 1844 f Eis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to "direct the publication, for general information, of the following letter from Lord Stanley on the subject ©ffexcbanging Land. By Command, ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial^Secretary Downing" Street, 16th January, 1843 r* Sir,-—With reference»to yonr despatch, No. 20 of March last, 1 have to acquaint you that her Ala jesty’s Government have resolved to allow to settler generally the opportunity of exchanging their land in the more remote positions for grants nearer to th Town of Auckland. You" are therefore authorised toj allow to al Claimants, who have established their title* to land,? the option of takiDg land in exchange for it in the unoccupied portions of the District in which Auckland is situated :—especial reference being of course had to the proportionate values which have been established in the Colony for Town, Suburban, and Country Ailotmeots. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) STANLEY. PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency ROBERT TJTZROY, Esq., Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Nuty, and Governor and Communder-insChief in and over 1 Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its |f Dependencies,] and iVice Admiral of the same, %c., fyc., fife. In order that all claimants to land may be—as much as possible—on an equality with respect to opportunities of making exchanges of land with the Government—the following Regulations are made public, and will be strictly observed. regulations RESPECTING THE EXCCHANGE OF LAND. 1. No further exchange of land will be made by the Government previojs to the last week of next June. I 2. There will be nojrestriction as to the quantity of land, —whether Town, Suburban, or Country | given by the Government in exchange foi an equivalent value—or as much more as may be offered —in money, or iu other land not yet granted by the Crown, bat the claim to which has been recoin" mended to the Governor for a Grant. 3. Before a Crown Grant will be issued, the land tendered io exchange for Crown land must be Surveyed by Government; and, if found less in quantity than the amount staled, the part;, tendering will be required to make good the deficiency- in money, — or forego Ids intcoedd exchange. 4. Applications to exchange land will be re» Reived, till the fifteenth day of June next. 5. Each such application must specify ic quantity of land offered for exchange ; the looa >y of such land ; ilia number and letter (if any), f f he Land Claim ; and the Commissioner or Con i ltSioneis by whom it was investigated. 6. No grant will b> made out in favoor o i-oy person offering to exchange land at the end of,h ,ie next, whose applination shall not have been rec>. ved by the Government betoie the sixteenth month. 7. A considerable portion of Surveyed >n, Suburban, and Country land, will be put op to Auction during the last week of June next, of which due notice will he given; hut a sufficient quantity will he reserved for the Sales in the months of September, and December next; in order that other claimants whose claims may be then unsettled, may have fair opportunities of open compelitioujin extbange. 8. Book* will "be opened at the Treasury f ( r Land Claimants in order fhat they may have credit, in land only, to tile amount of the quantities contained in their respective approved claim*, which they may Hate their readiness to dispose of at the rate ol one pound sterlling per acie, in exchange tor an equivalent value of Government land. 4. TiansferrableJ notes"* will be given by the Treasli-y ; on which it will be distinctly specified that the acceptance of suce note*, by the Government, at the above-mentioned sales, in exchange for land only, will depend on the validity of the Claim they are intended to represent; and on their holder making good, in money, any deficiency in M jtbe quantity of land stated. Given under my Hand, aud under the Seal of the Colony, at Government House, \ (L. S.) Auckland, this 2fith day of Match, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fortyafour. ROBERI FIIZftOY, Governor. By Conmand, ANDREW S r NCLAIR, Colonial Secrelaty God Savs the Queen!