COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 13, 4 June 1842, Page 52

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

We have received Sydney papers to the 30th of April. We have but little space this week for extracts : — The first cattle fair in New South Wales was held on the 26th of April, at Prospect. Fat sheep sold for 9s. each; springers for £6 ss. each, and eighty fat bullocks at £6 each. Higher prices were offered for very superior heifers, and refused; twenty pounds each was offered for yearling bulls, bred by David Johnson, esq., and refused. Some horses were sold by auction after the fair, which, as the first ' occasion of the kind, was well attended. Cape of Good Hope. — Cape papers to the begining of February came to hand yesterday, having, we believe, arrived by the Seahorse from Port Phillip. Extensive preparations were being made to subject the emigrant farmers at Port Natal to British rule, and the farmers, it was understood, were determined to push into the interior of foreign Africa to found a republic. Great expectations had been raised of the success which would attend the growth of wool, which the settlers anticipate will make the Cape colony one of the most flourishing appendages of the British empire. Two vessels had I>een dispatched to St. Helena for diafts of the liberated slaves. Exports to New Zealand. — Mr. Hurder who arrived lately in the James from the Cape, has purchased a flock of "sheep from Dr. Stewart, of the Goulburn, at 10s. 6d. a-head, and is shipping them to New Zealand. This is the first, we predict, of a series of lucrative and successful transactions between the two colonies, which, as times improve, will daily become more numerous. — Geelong Advertiser. Mechanics' Institute. —We are informed that the Mechanics' Institute recently organized in this - town, is progressing, and that the proceedings already adopted will be made public early in the presetfl month, when a meeting will be convened for the purpose, provided the promoters of this institution are actuated by disinterested motives, and have only the encouragement of a laudable desire for the diffusion of knowledge in view, their endeavours will prosper ; but if, as it is reported, the first object was to make a salary for certain individuals, and the attainment of that object is still desired, the Mechanics' Institute will a failure. — Launceston Chron.