CAPTAIN SIMEON.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 608, 11 February 1852, Page 3

CAPTAIN SIMEON.

We are authorised to state that Mr. Godley has resigned the office of Resident Magistrate, and that his Excellency has been pleased to confer it upon Captain Simeon. There are probably few who will not deeply regret the loss of Mr. Godley's services in the Resident Magistiate'a Court. Those services were placed at the disposal of the colony gratuitously, in the most critical period of its existence. And apart from the mere economical consideration of expence saved, there has been on the whole great advantage gained by uniting the chipf authority in different departments in one person. This arrangement was, however, necessarily of a temporary nature ; the increasing amount of business in the Resident Magistrate's Court would alone have necessitated a new distribution of offices. It is, however, a matter of great congratulation that the appointment hns been conferred upon Captain Simoon. Captain Simeon was strongly recommended by the Association to Earl Grey, and by Earl Grey to his Excellency. He i<3 a land-owner in the settlement, deeply attached to the principles on which it was founded, and deeply interested in its success. A soldier and a gentleman of good family, good character, good abilities, and good address, he is in ovary way entitled to, and

qualified for, tlio situation lio is called on to fill. And above all, he i*. peibonally known to many of tho settlers, having occupied the position of Chairman of the meetings* of the colonists in the rooms in the Ad el pin, fur several months after the departure of the first four ships. It has been our duty often to attack his Excellency's dealings, sometimes in stiong though deserving terms; but we cannot remain silent when the policy meets with our approbation, and we arp sure that Sir George Grey could not have exercised his patronage more judiciously, or in a manner ,more •jiateful to the feelings of the Canterbury settlers than in the appointment of Captain Simeon to the office of Resident Magistrate. — Lyttelton Tunes.