The New-Zealander

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 217, 28 June 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander

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WEDNESDAY, JUNK 28, 1848.

]1 M. .Ship "C\morF, M Captain Edward Stanify, came ituo haibour Cioiii the Bay of Islands, on Sunday evening, after a liairassing ciuise of six and twenty days, during which time she encounteied a succession of gales and tempestuous weather. On the outwaid passage, whilst endeavouring to fetch into Koro ranka, she was blown eighty miles to seaward, off Cape Brett, making a piolractcd passage of nearly eight days. All was in a state of perfect quietude at the Bay of Islands ; the lccent tour of his Excellency, the Go\einor-in-Claof, Jo that <ju;ntcr, having been pioductnc of the most adxantageous consequences, — tending, as it has done, to conciliate the natnc mind. — to disabuse it of false impiessions, and to give a salu tai y check to indued and undue influences. Thcie is a whisper that some of the chiefs of "the Northern Confederacy," June been revising ceitain ancient accounts " of our old Euiopeans,Avho dwell in our midot, upon places that have been ghen to them,'' — not without " a consideration,"' — such considciation, being inter alia, certain pounds weight of tobacco, meted out to the </fecrs,aUhc 1 ate, it is alleged, of from ten to twehc figs to the pound. Now this astute confederacy, it is said, haung gone over the accounts cunent of the good old days, Jiave, by the aid of modern illumination, detected one or two tiivial inaccuracies ; such for example, as from four to six figs minus the covenanted pound, and upon which they demand the customaiy commercial piivilegeof R and 0. E. : — a deficit involving no inconsideiable amount of native claim, has thus accrued but whether entailing a further claim of interest until paid, we have yet to lcani. Time, liowever, will no doubt fully " pluck out the Lcaitof a mystery," to which we can only as yet thus cursorily advert. The Calliope, on her return passage, was at one time, in imminent jeopaidy. On Monday, the 19th instant, at 9 p.m., when a bhort distance fioin the lien and Chickens, the fiigate was struck by a heavy squall, which split her main-topsail, and compelled her to reduce her canvas. At 4, 50, a.m. of the 20th, the ship had been dm en to the noithward, the Poor Knights being in sight ; and at day -break she was discovered to be completely embayed. To weather Cape Tewara, (or Bieam Head) "became a matter of extreme anxiety, as upon the success of that manceuvie the salvation of the ship and creiv depended, there being no Toom to wear and attempt to claw off shoic on the opposite tack. It was a moment to try the nerve and to demand the skill of the accomplished seaman ; and foitunately, in neither quality is Captain Sr\MEY in the slightest degiee deficient. The gallant little fngate was made to cairy the heaucst press of sail, beneath which she could safely stagger, iintil with indomitable peiseveiance, and favouiedbythe tide, the difficulty was happily suimounted, and Cape Tewaia passed. Captain Stanley then boie up foi Wangavi, u beautiful and capacious haiboiu, with excellent holding ground, pei feet sheltei, and a line and fertile neighboiuing countiy. In running in, the ship tailedon a shoal of mud and sand, (not bid down in the chait), but so gently — the water being smooth as that of a null pond, —that her grounding was unknown until her way was perceived to be stopped. It a\ as about lialf ebb, when the frigate giounded, so that at low water, she heeled o\et at c\n angle of 23 ° , and had in consequence, to be shoied up with rough spars and top- gallant mastf| previously sent on deck. In this emergency, 40 tons of watei were started, and her poit guns run in, and shot shifted to w indward. A stream cable and anchor having been laid out astern, at 7, 50 ? the ship was hove off, and ran in safety, up thehaiboui. bunging to with hei liest bower, in twelve fathoms, at B>,p. m. [During these trying operations, the beautiful little ship behaved admirably, and did she only possess two feet moie of beam, she would, in the opinion of her gallant Captain, be perfection. Dining the stay of the Callioph at the Bay of Islands, Captain Stanley brought a claim foi .Siihrnyof the stoics and cargo of the Amelican whaloi Uoir, ;>eLie the UesuViil Magistracy, wh'i declined tv in ih^ rt.> jvv.^rd, — the Cay iVjfc-oie. will m bi'ughi v; >i cor"idej'P/iio.i of th" SuDicpie C'yiiiL duiHig its next session. Mnjru BnuKii, ">oth, aiut hi^ K\{\. mut ii 1 }. pa^cnge'jin the Cui-iofij.

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Wellington, thai the Olago m-mi Mr, is viewed by many of the knowing ones, as Iml a inly de> ice of the New Zealand Company to gne an indued impetus to then ah cad y established .settlements. They, the Compain, as nm ronnnuimnnt avcis, ha\e not kept faith with the Fiee Chinch of Scotland emigunls. w ho A\eie to find hou-cs ready for then lcccption, and to be supplied with rations at coM pi ice, foi the Jiisf tlnec month 1 ?. An i\ iti£? at then (lestmation, m the mkhi of a New Zealand winter, (was this p,ul and parcel nl a preconcei tod "dodge?") and seeing no sheeling to piotect them fioni ihe inclemency of the season, the pas.^engcis by the Pnn.n» Lainc, manfully ie,sol\ed to stick to the ship. No friend, it is said, is equal to the friend in need, and just at this peculiar juncture, the Company's agent is reported to have proferied the malcontents a passage to the nourishing town of Wellington. If this be true, howe\er advantageous the transfer to the emigrants themselves, what can be said in exculpation of the immaculate Company 2 We ti ust Mr. Aglionby its champion will vouchsafe to explain.

The CiinaMi. came into puil yesleiday foienoon, from Sydney, having sailed on the l Oth and bringing intelligence to the 9th instant. Want of space compels us to defei ota customary summary. H.M.S, Di no reached Sydney on the sth. The HriiAi.n pointedly observes they could only notice her arrival, her Captain having refused to impait any information. Captain Maxwell appears determined to keep his own counsel in all things, gieat or small. The Tasmania had arrived on the 3rd. We have received the two first numbers of the Sydney D<uly Advertiser, a journal produced, it is said, under the auspices of Mr. Moore, of jjthe Labour Bazaar. In dimensions it equals the Herald, but in typogiaphy and arrangement is greatly inferior to its old established diurnal rival. The only vessel w r e observe advertised for this port is the Maid ok Erin — the brig William Hill having sailed on the same day as the Ciieerfll. Flour has advanced 40s. per ton, and with eveiy probability of a fuither rise. The schooner Thetis Avas wrecked off Port Phillip Heads, with a loss of four lives, passengers just come out in the Sabraon. The Ganges came in from Newcastle w ith coals last night. She left the Fanny waiting her stock.

The Governor issued a Supplementary Gazette on Saturday, for the express purpose of thanking the inhabitants of Auckland for theii acthe endeavours to assist in saving his Excellency's and the public propeity on the unfortunate occasion of the lecent fue. Rumour assigns many dwellings as the tcmpoiaiy lesting place of his Excellency, but we believe ue' are correct in stating the domicile of the Private Secretary as the shelter determined on. An addiess of sympathy is in progress, which, we have no doubt, will be universally icsponded to. Whilst on this topic, up hasten to make the amende to the Royal Sappers and Miners, whose commendable exeitions we inadvertently passed by in our hasty notice of the luckless conflagration. The following is the Gazette notice alluded to :—: —

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 24/ A June, IS4B. Many of the Inhabitants of Auckland having, from the very commencement of the file at Government House, on the 23ul instant, until its conclusion, rendered themselves conspicuous by the most prompt and zealous excitions to save both public and pmate property, and having by those exertions greatly contributed to save the large amount of property which was rescued fiom the fire, His Excellency the Govcrnoi -inChief avails himself of this mode of thanking them in his public capacity for their assistance in sa\ing the public properly, and of leturning them his own most grateful thanks for the benefit he received, as a prhate individual, from their excitions, and most ad mirable conduct upon this unfortunate occasion. By His Excellency's command, Anjwuw Sinclmr, Colonial Secret;/) v