The New-Zealander. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1847.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 133, 8 September 1847, Page 2

The New-Zealander. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1847.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aims't at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, and Truth's.

His Excellency Governor Grey embarked on Saturday morning last, accompanied by Lieut. Colonel Wynyard, and other officers, on board Her Majesty's war steamer Inflexible, which immediately got under weigh, and proceeded in the direction of Mauranghi, with the view, it is understood, of enabling the Governor to judge by a personal inspection, of the degree of eligibility of that place as a site for the location of the Pensioners who have arrived, and are expected. It is thought not unlikely, that His Excellency will extend his tour to the Biy of Islanls. Owing to the Governor's absence, the Meeting of Council stands adjourned to Thursday next.

There is no pleasanter duty than that of chronicling the progress and improvement going on in our colony. A statement of such facts speaks more to our friends in England, tlinn all the fabrications of those who wilfully strive to misrepresent our true position. It also encourages a laudable spirit of enterprise in our fellow-colonists, whose gicat aim ought to be, and whose best interest is, to produce as much as they can from their own resources within the colony. In addition to the w«U-ka"wn mineral productions of the Barrier and Knwau mines, we have in successful and profitable operation, a ltrge Rope Walk, in Mechanics' Bay. consuming our flax ; n Tanning and Currying Yard, in Hij-h Street ; Breweries, in one of wliieh Vinegar is also made, at Mount Eden, St, George's Hay, and in Use Town ; and lately a

Soap Boiling and Catvlle Making Establishment, belonging to Mr John Alexander Smith, has commenced operations. In the course of a few weeks, we shall no longer be quite dependant on our sister colony for these two articles of daily and universal consumption. From the nature of our climate, we can make better candles than can be manufactured in New South Wales ; and we doubt not that before long, Auckland made candles will, fiom their superior quality and m ke, command an export as well as a home trade. Would it not be well for some of our practical men to turn their attention to the manufacture of paper from flax ?

Mechanics' Bay.— This thriving locality presents a scene of quiet plodding industry well worthy of imitation. Up the v.illey stands the Water Mill,— lower down the Hope Factory now roofed in, — and along the margin of the Bay, Boat-builders and Shipwrights ply a busy trade. There are no«v three vessels on the stocks — none of them of any very considerable burthen. One vessel is intended for a schooner, competed, beiny caulked, pitched, painted, and all ready for launching. She measures about 18 tons— 33 feet in ihe keel, 11 feet some inches beam, and 6 feet in the hold, and is in the whole a neat model. Another, intended also to be fitted up as a schooner, has her outside planking half completed, and seems capable of carrying about 14 tons. The thiid is in frame, and intended for a cutter of 10 or 12 tons burthen. The finished craft waits to be named by the first purchaser. Boat l uilding and repairing is also going actively ahead* Mr. John Scott. — We are sorry to learn that it appears but too certain that Mr. Scott and his party who left town for Kawau on Sunday the 22nd Inst., have met with a watery grave. We have already said that H. M. S Racehorse had picked up their boat that was found floating keel up in the frith ; since then, his partner Mr. Davis sent off a boat, which after coasting hence to Kawau, and round that island, carefully examining every creek and inlet, has returned with the sole intelligence, that on the evening of the day on which they left this, they put into the Wade, where they remained until the following Wednesday. Mr. Campbell, the harbour pilot has also visited the islands in the Frith, on the same errand, but equally in vain. No doubt seems left that they had been taken in a sudden squall that upset their boat, and that thus all on board perished. The Thomas King dropped down to the ballast ground yesterday and will sail in the course of to-day or to-morrow morning, for Lima. The Barque Ganges, and brigs Maukin and Deborah may now be looked for from Sydney with the first fair wind. The Ganges will bring, most likely, a full cargo of coals via Newcastle.