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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 10, 27 June 1848, Page 2

The Government House is gone at last. The stumps of a few chimneys and a little wood ash is all that remains of a building though which Auckland claimed her title of the New Zealand capital. If the tein. of it-, duration he measuied by yeais, it Has but slum , if by the iiumlici of lis siuiessiu- tenants— It id hale been leased for thlee [inlitic.il llles u .nay lie said to li.ne lasted nell < miiiiili. As a [iiece of neiis. it ha-, liecuuie stile , tuo delailr i accounts of the h.ne ~1 leady a[.peared, and a thud culd !..■ nollum; lii-ie than a ic-iintm:; .if ulut .mi leader-, nil.st h.,veHhe.id\ seen ; it suffices m.-ieU to ilnoimletlieeie,',! b'.lt lU' 1111 l Hot ;l(illl llli- ii[.Ji.llt..lllly to

pass without expressing our sympathy ami regret to the Governor and Mrs. Urfy for the inconvenience which they still suffer, ami the loss they have sustained. And in this our fel-low-colonists heartily join. The mere pecuniary los-;. if Mich a mailer he north speaking of. is supposed not to he great ; but many things have perished, winch cannot he replaced ; \allied perhaps for other considerations thin their own intrinsic worth. The magnificent collection of Sloa bones, which Captain Gitrrv' had been at such pains to form, during hi? last'visil to the South, is totally destroyed ; which His Excellency is believed to regret the more, that the loss is more of a public, than of a private nature, being a real calamity to the j scientific world. ' Nothing is yet decided as to the erection of n I second vice-regal hall. One of Her Majesty's I ships of war may perhaps be the seat of Government for some time yet to come. Hut whenever, or wherever, such rebuilding shall be determined upon, it is to be hoped that the New Government House will be upon a scale commensurate to the future, rather than to the present importance of this Colony. There is no necessity to build the whole at once ; our resources do not justify us as yet in incurring so heavy an expense; the body of the mansion, even a single wing, might serve all purposes for several years to come ; but it is to be hoped that unity of design will be secured from the beginning. And the plans should be sent for to England. Good sense and ability may be plenty in the colonies; but good taste in the fine arts, or keen perception of the beautiful, is only too seldom to be found. Auckland has already suffered too much from inattention to matters such as these.