WELLINGTON.
(From the Kete Zealand Spectator. Dec. 13.) The following answer has been received to the memorial on the subject of postal communication, forwarded from Wellington to the Governor by the steamer last month. It is an apt illustration to the " I have the honour to be/ r —-do nothing- system. We are glad to find from the * Lyttelton Times' that the views of the merchants and settlers of Canterbury- coincide with those of Wellington on this important question, and that a similar memorial on postal communication will be proposed and forwarded by them to the General Government, Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 4th December. 385 G. Sir.—l am directed by the Colonial Secretary to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21th ultimo, covering two memorials to the Governor, relative to the contemplated Postal arrangements, and to inform you that the name have been laid before his Excellency. 1 hV?>. a.^tl»e same time, to express the repet oi hw Jixwlk'ncy's Government that owine to me early departure of the ' Zingari' it has been impossible from the variety of .subjects re/imnng consideration, to afford by this mail such explanations as vrould.it is believed, remove such misconception on the part of thr- Memorialpls oi the views of the Government on this subject, win respect to which a further commmueahon will be made by the first opportuMu3 r. x - I have- the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, Ttt n x' r -«. k'ude*>Secretary. Wtllsnyton.
Nkw Bisnoi'iuc yon Wellington.—Wo are informed by a correspondent, on whom wo can rely, in a letter which ivached us by tho ' ZiugariV that oflicial despatches lately received at Auckland announce iho creation of a new Bishopric to include the Provinces of Wellington and Nelson ; and that Archdeacon Hadiiehl is designated to the new See. Our satisfaction at the news is materially qualified by the opposition of Churchmen at Nelson to the union of the provinces in a common diocese, which we fear may obstruct or embarrass the proposed arrangement; and by tho annexation ot a condition, for which we were not prepared, and against which we feel sure the churchmen of both provinces will unite iv a cordial remonstrance, namely, that the new Bishops (including the one ibr Ohristchurch) are to stand in the relation of sutiragans, not to the Bishop of New Zealand, but to the Bishop of Sydney : a consideration which must indefinitely postpone our hopes—nearly realized—of a general convention., besides being objectionable on other grounds. We shall shortly recur to this subject." and to the question of the Bishopric, which we are aware has been engaging the attention of our Archdeaconry Board, and we only waited for some settlement of the important business now under discussion by its members, before laying the result, of their deliberations before the public, — Ibid.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 432, 24 December 1856, Page 6
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