[From the Nelson Examiner, May 8.]

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 114, 3 July 1847, Page 3

[From the Nelson Examiner, May B.]

Mr. liyre, whose appoimifnent as LieutenantGovernor of New Zealand, under Capt. Grey, we have ahead}' noticed, 13 favourably known as an explorer in 8011 th Australia, in which colony lie also held an appointment as resident magistrate in a district where the blacks were very troublesome, and in the execution of which office he displayed much energy and ability. He is very favourably mentioned in Mr. F. Button's new work on South Australia, and the author expresses a hope that government would find him some more important colonial appointment than that which he held there. We may therefore expect that he will prove himself equal to the responsible post to which he has been appointed. It is hardly necessary to express our satisfaction at ti.e intention on the pact of the Colonial Minister, — news of which has been received by private letter,— to leave it to Capt. Grey to decide which of the two districts shall be placed under the authority of the Lieutenant-Governor. However much inclined we may be, as we have just said, In think well of the latter gentleman, Y e are confident we may declare it to be the

•tiong and unanimous desire of the settlers of these parts of New Zealand that Captain Grey should take the southern district into his own charge. Without attempting in any way to depreciate the absolute importance of the northern district, we cannot but maintain that it is relatively, very in feiior, as a commune], to the southern. The latter contains the settlements of Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson The projected settlement of New Edinburgh is tolerably sure, ere long, to be established. The Wai ran district, at the seaport of which a town must spring up, will be, in fact, a sixth settlement ; and every thing foreiels that colonization will go on with the greatest rapidity, if not solely for some lime, in the southern pait of this island. The Governor of the southern district will have therefore, six thriving settlements under* his charge j about four- fifths of the whole evtent of the islands of New Zealand, the greatei part of thepiesent European population, and the almost certainty of that which is to follow it from England. The northern Governor will have the one settlement of Auckland on its isthmus, and its small mountainous peninsula northward, with its yet settlement of Russell, only partially resuscitated. As the LieutenantGovernor is not to be a mock one, — another edition of the Southern Superintendent, — but reall) to regulate the whole internal affairs of the district be commands ; if Captain Grey should choose the northern district for himself, he will be virtually shelved. It will be a kind of political suicide, of which we cannot think it possible he would be guilty.