COLONIAL SUMMARY.

Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 41, 24 September 1857, Page 3

COLONIAL SUMMARY.

Our Colonial advices have been lately most discouraging. Disaster upon disaster has been the unfortunate report of our New South Wales exchanges, and as a climax they finish with a third, and more unfortunate flood, at Maitland, Bathurst, and all the district adjacent to the Hunter and Hawkesbury. A fearful amount of property has been destroyed, and in my lives have been lost. On the Will Dims river, a family of the name of Ross, consisting of father, mother, and five children, were swept away. The wheat crops, have been completely destroyed. The fearful loss of life consequent upon the loss of the Dunbar at Sydney heads, and running down of the Champion steamer off Cape Otway, we hope will lead to some suggestion for establishing a Colonial Trinity Board, also a small beacon on the North head of Sydney. We know no port more easy of access than Port Jackson, yet in spite of all advantages, a splendid clipper ship with

a sober steady Captain and crew, is cast ashore within almost hailing distance of the lighthouse. A universal expression of regret by the inhabitants of -Sydney has cast a gloom over all classes of society. We can recommend to our Provincial Government two steamers advertized in the Hobart Town Mercury, The only objection to their being brought into our Colonial service is—-as the Auctioneer says— that “ they speak forthemselves.” Steamers are given to “ puffing,” but not to “ speaking a quality which we think is not in harmony with our “ good of the Province” constituency. We wish that our men may be like their steamers, and “ speak for tlieinselves” also at the forthcoming. elections.