[From the Nelson Examiner, May 27]

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 224, 22 July 1848, Page 2 (Supplement)

[From the Nelson Examiner, May 27 ]

By the Supply, from Manuka'i, we have received Auckland papers lo the 2Cth of Apiil. The news of the suspension of the dinner had jest been received, iind as mi!<lit be c\poc ed, was the cause of much exultation in the journals. It appears to us however, that our contemporaries have jumped too hastily to the conclusion that in the Southern as well as in the Noithem hovwee, icpresentative institutions arc to be withheld i'or five ye>irs. "We believe the contrary will be the case— for we ea mot fcai tlmt ("apt. Grey, after the sentiments he ivas CNprcssed towards us in his despatches, will withhold from us the exercise of tli<Ke rights wh cli 1 o admits we aie in I'Very way qua ified to exeicise. The Southern Cross continues its attacks on liio Govtnior, with increased rancor, and we ihi»k goes beyond the bounds of fair Newspaper ton - irent. For instance, in an article on the Gtvcrmrs despatches on the 15lh of Apiil, it is atteinp<ed lo be thown that Capt. Guy has been a systematic dctructir of the chaneter of all those who have filled a position in any way likely to lesson or eclipse his own fnmr, or Iwve stood* in the way of his own advancement V\c make om? bioctextiact as a specimen ol the tpuit tf j the article :—: — I " Captain Grey, we believe, cspeiienccd for along period, the hospitalities of Governor Gawlei, in nmiMi Australia. His sojourn, we have heard, proved as fatal to the host, as successful to the guest ; for mi on aitci the mturn ot Captain Grey to England, he was hj>pointed to the government of South Australia, and Colonel Gawler, to the deep relict of the colonists, was recalled ; ami so blighting was the unseen influence which hurled him Irom Ins seat, that he has never since been re-em ployed-" Now wo happen to know thalour contemporary has here tiavc led wide of the truth, lor the lust intelligence which greeted Captain Giey and bis fellow passengcis on their arrival in England, in Sept em! c , 1840, was the rucal ot Uovernoi Oawlcr from South Australia, on account chii'lly ot his cUiava^aut goveinnient expenditure, -which had then reached the enormous amount of 900,0001. a jcar, lor a popnlat on of lu',ooo souls, and at a tune when the revenue w.ib under 50,0001; and because, that notwithstanding repeated warnings, he had continued to draw bill-, upon the Colonisation Connnissio iois, lom> altc. the Lanu Fund wan exhausted, which bills, to the amount af between 300,01)01. and /j00.0001., were dislionouicd at the pc iod oi Captain Giev's auival in London; so that *' the nnsmi influence which hurlid Govtinor Gawler from h s scat," could not h ive pioccedcd from Captain Grey. And if the " Cross " had not lor^.ttui the great denate on New Zealand allYnfc, in lR'» r i, which doubtless be has read, ho would have found it dillicult to reconcile his statement with what foil from Lord John Russell on that occasion, winch was this — "Captain «icy I only know by his public conduct. Ilisnpoits upon the subject ol the aborigines ot New South Wales, and other places, where he has been, were such as lo induce me lo ask h ni to accept ol iho govi rnnicutof South Aiistialia. I <'o not believe 1 ever saw bun befoic he went out to assume his post, and I certainly know nothing of him previously." Whether the remainder of our i out' mporary's icmarkh aic basrd on a better foundation than the one we have quoted, we have not the means at this moment of ascei taming.