The New-Zealander. SATURDAY,JANUARY 9, 1847.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 84, 9 January 1847, Page 3

The New-Zealander. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1847.

lie just and fear not : Let all the ends thou nims't at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, and {.'ruth's.

WELLINGTON.

His Excellency the Governor returned from Wellington, ralher-unexpecttedly, on Saturday last, in H. ML Steamer Driver. Report says, that he found nothing particular to detain him there, and that being in expectation of important despatches fiom England, he leturned to Auckland to wait the event. The Hope •was at Nelson, The captain died on the passage, and the vessel had sprung a leak, which would cause some detention. Our correspondent informs us that the report was, thatßangihaeata had abandoned the thoughts of further acts of aggression, making up his mind to act only on the defensive : that he had stopped a party who were driving a flock of wether to Wanganui. «i , 'V? t'"i f th n y •" i :1 1 o food for the soldiers : — ■thnt upon being told they were for brc^fime-, he s>agaci usly obs"rvfd that th»y weie a»l wttlieis, an i wanted to know how the increase was to come : — but that he fin <lly suffered llie flock to pass on over the liatigetikei liver, upon payment of a fee of £6. The subjoined extract from, the Nelson Examiner, will account foi the rumours that have been current during 'he past week. We think the good peop<e nf Auckland are justly chargeable with folly for giving unlimited credit to every idle tale that is promulgated. All that we understand and believe concerning this matter is, that the Colony will, in all probability, be shortly divided into two distinct, if not independ"nt, Governments ; and that Wellington will be the seat of the Local Administration in Cook's Straits. But that the seat of Government will be removed from Auckland to Wellington, and the former be made subordinate to the latter, we do not believe. However much the present Ministry may be inclined to favov the.Company, we feel assured that they will not signalize their Administration by such an act of folly and injustice. We hail the probable establishment ot a Local Government, with extensive powers, at Wellington, with pleasure ; because, we believe that the interests of our fellow-colonists will be more efficiently fostered and protected, and because we think that they should have a resident Administration of more efficient character than that which they now possess. We shall not be injured, and they will be benefitted by the change. "The news from England which most immediately concerns the colony will be viewed differently, as the opinions and wishes of people incline them. Parliament has sanctioned the loan of £100,000 to tne New Zealand Company, piomised by the Government last year, stipulating howe\er that no part of it is to be applied to paying off their liabilities. The Company is likely, now that there is a Government favourable lo its views, to make another eflbit to carry on the woik of colonization. Lord Grey was about to bring in a bill to empower MimVers in the recess to remodel the Government of the coloir, ; and we hear that Mr. Bailer's proposition of last year, and Mr. Wakeh'eM's scheme, published by us \atd week, are to be made the basis. This leave.B ample" rootn for conjecture as to the nature of the new Government, and all we can say with any certainty of it is, that popular institutions, in tho m idest sense, arc to be {iiven to the colony. Whether it is intended to give the Company a proprietary chailur (a measure vi Inch would nol be received with favour by many people here), or simply to constitute it the colonising agent, we are unable to make out. The seat of Government, so we are told, is positively to be removed — to Wellington we suppose j but eventually the site is lo be determ ued by tliccolomats themselves. The new settlements at Otago and Wairarupa are to go forward as soon as the Government of the colony is settled. The Inflexible steamer, sent out, via the Cape, to relieve the J)ricer, left England about the same time as the Hope. The brig Nelson, from Liveipool to Wellington sailed two da)s before the Hope. The next ship lor the colony, the Gilbert Henderson, was to sail on the last day of September j by her ■we hope to receive more positive information of m bat is doing for us at home "