The Auckland Chronicle. Thursday, August 22, 1844.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 55, 22 August 1844, Page 2

The Auckland Chronicle. Thursday, August 22, 1844.

The Sydney, Captain "White, which was despatched by his Excellency the Gover_ nor for troops to New South Wales, has returned to the Bay of Islands, bringing 160-Soldiers who are now waiting there fdf Further instructions how to proceed. The Sydney, brought a mail form Syds ney and we are sorry to find that matters are in ft very depressed state. The Legislative Council were still setting, and on Wednesday July 24th, we find that «' Mr. Darvall, who had been appointed by His Excellency the Governor, to a seat in the Council in place of Hastings Elwin, Esq., resigned, was introduced by the Colonial Secretary and the Attorney General, and took the prescribed oath of office. The Speaker informed the Couns cil that the Attorney General would undertake, in compliance with the request of the house, to more in the Supreme Court for a criminal information against Messrs* Macdermott, Macfarlane and Moore. Mr. Windeyergave notice of his intention to' move on to-morrow, (Thursday) that the Speaker do take' the necessary steps in connexion with the Attorney General, to carry into effect the prosecution of the parties just named. Dr. Bland presented a petition from a number of mechanics employed by the government in Sydney, praying for relief' Their petition set forth, that they had been employed by the government at wages from 18s to 12s per week ; but they were liable to reduction from bad weather and other causes j : and that they were not sufficient to provide food, clothing, and education for their families, and the requisite fools for their work. The petition was read, and on the motion that it be received, the Colonial Secretary said, he did not intend to oppose the motion. The council had last session, voted a sum of money for relieving the unemployed, by engaging them on some work ; but the principle on which they -vcted was, to give employment on the public works to as many as possible, but at a low rate of wages, in order to induce she distressed in Sydney to go into the interior of the country, where they would be able to provide better for themselves and families, than they would by remaining here in town. And whether they were mechanics or labourers, he believed they would provide more adgantageously for themselves, by taking engagements in the country than they would here in Sydney. With respect to absolute distress, he would state that the government had put itself in communication with the committee of the Beuevolent Asylum, and that through that institution relief bad been afforded in the shape of rations of bread arid meat, ta those who were so distressed as to require it. The petition was then received." We see nothing further worth noticing until our next*

The brig Bee which arrived on Tuesday evening from Wellington, (which port she left on the 11th inst,,) brings us files of the "Gazette" to the 7th instant, by which we learn tha* " The Carbon arrived on the 2nd of August from Otago, and we hear that the purchase of the land there had been satisfactorily arranged. The signatures of the chiefs were to be obtained and the payment for the land to be made on the day after the Carbon sailed. We have not heard positively who have obtained the contracts for the survey of the land, but it is reported that Mr. Park was one of the contractors. The Deborah, with Mr. Spain and Colonel Wakefield, was to leave Otago for Nelson on the 30th of July, and would land Messrs. Park and Thomas at Cloudy Bay on her way to the Straits." The Bee has brought a few passengers, and will proceed to Sydney in the course of a few days.