NEW SOUTH WALES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 576, 12 May 1858, Page 4

NEW SOUTH WALES.

By the Comet we ha%-e Sydney papers to the 6th of April, and in the Wellington journals Aye find some items of information from that- colony to the 9th ult., which reached Nelson in the Ocean Queen. The dates between our previous advices, March 25. and the end of that month are absent, having been taken to Wellington in the Wanderer. The English mail of February had not arrived and Avas only just due at the departure of the Ocean Queen ;' but one day's later news from England had been received, and to about a month later from Calcutta, the particulars of which are given elsewhere. In Sydney, the rejection of the Panama route proposition of last year by the Royal Mail Company was still a theme of discussion. The 'Empire' exonerates both the Company and Mr. Wetton their agent from blame, and lays the fault to the Imperial Government in depriving the company of the power to fulfil their agreement. Tlie same paper recommends that assistance should be looked for from the United States to enable New South Wales and New Zealand to carry out the enterprise. The

i 77Hi regiment were about to embark from Sydney for Calcutta, taking with them the good wishes of the colonists. • , „ A new Electoral Bill had been introduced, by the provisions of which 'manhood suffrage and the ballot were to be established: the number of members was proposed to be enlarged and the representation to be better distributed. It was received with a good deal of favour. The Boonoo Boonoo diggings were attracting ' a rush.' The ' Empire' states that there are now hundreds of working men out of employment and suffering the miseries of that condition in S3'dney,andrecommendsthatGovernment should search for places in the interior where labour is required and furnish to the sufferers the means of proceeding thither.