NOMINATION AT ONEHUNGA.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 750, 22 June 1853, Page 2

NOMINATION AT ONEHUNGA.

Wo ai*o in possession of nn extended Report of the Proceedings ot the Nomination at Onchmiga on Monday, but we cannot do more to-day than mention the facts with all brevity. Mr. Joseph May proposed Mr. Wm. Brown as a Candidate for the Superintendency of the Province. The nomination was seconded by Mr. A. O’Conner. Mr. 11. B. Lusk, in a long and very effective speech, proposed Lieut.-Colonel Wynyard as a fit and proper person for the office of Superintendent of the Province. Serjeant Murphy seconded the nomination. A show of hands having been called for by the Returning Officer, only about six hands were held up for Mr. Brown. All the others present were held up, with loud cheers, for Colonel Wynyard. A Poll was then demanded on behalf of Mr. Brown, and the Meeting (which being composed chiefly of Colonel Wynyard's supporters was perfectly orderly throughout) broke up, —having first given three cheers for Colonel Wynyard, three for the Returning Officer, and, as a O' becomingly loyal finale, six. foe the Queen. We have pleasure in giving insertion to the following Memorial and Reply, which should ha\c appeared in our last number had the other claims on our space been less urgent. The imperial ce of opening up means of easy communication with Hie extensive and richly fertile Maikalo country needs no enforcement; and if it dni, it would be abundantly supplied by the striking aspect in which the case has been pul in Captain Drury's report on the Manakau, and the array of cogent facts and arguments presented in p 1 ® Memorial which we subjoin. Wc arc gratihei to see that a matter of so much moment has been taken up so energetically, and now that tuc attention of the Government is practically turiiec to it, and that his Excellency had instructed m c Deputy Surveyor General to estimate the P 10 " liable expense, of at least a portion of the very desirable work wc trust there x\ ill be no further delay in forwarding an undertaking which, when accomplished, must prove a source of the utmost advantage both to the European and Natives. To (he Governor end Lieutenant-Governor of the 'Province of Lie ir Ulster, in her Majesty's Colony i f Neiv Zeahind. Tin; MEMORIAL OE THE UNDERSIGNED EUROPEANS, Sbeweili— ’ That vo”.r im inorialist? arc residents in the d.s-

ict 0 f country extending along the course of the Waikato and \Vaipa rivers, known by the general name of the Waikato District. rp ]iat your memorialists represent several classes f society, some being clergymen or missionaries, others farmers, squatters, artisans, or traders. ° 'L’hat some of your memorialists are engaged in +] e cultivation of land and breeding of cattle, and "tiicrsin the purchasing from the native farmers °f flour, wheat, and llax, aml the only market for t'l e produce so grown or purchased, is the town of Auckland. That the sole means of transit by duch such produce can be conveyed to Auckland, by canoes down the Waikato river, thence up the "Awaroa river to Purapura, thence by a land of one mile and a half in length to Waiuku, and from Waiuku to Onchunga by regular sailing boats. _ _ "That the Waikato river is navigable with ease j safety, and affords, consequently, a good communication. . That the Awaroa river is narrow, serpentine, I much encumbered with fallen timber, and the passage up this stream is thereby rendered very tedious, dangerous, and uncertain, many canoes arc overturned, and the valuable cargoes destroyed or seriously damaged, and that in summer the said river is almost impassable for considerable lengths That the portage from Onchunga to Waiuku, causes great delay and risk to the .produce and i innerty of your memorialists, inasmuch as, durin'T the unloading of the canoes, the transit and tlufloading of the boats, it is exposed to, and ofteii receives, great damage from the weather. That the proceeds of the produce thus carried into Auckland by your memorialists, are, for the inost pait, invested in the purchase of manufactured goods, tobacco, and otucr merchandise, and that these goods are exposed to similar risks in the conveyance to the respective residences of your memorialists. That your memoi nilists, the clergymen and missionaries of the district, requiring annually considerable stores of food and clothing for themselves and their schools, arc subject to the same difficulty and risks in the conveyance of the stores to their respective stations. That the frequent losses and damage of produce and property which the Maories suffer, in their passage up and down the Awaroa, operate as a heavy discouragement to them, and, to a certain e:; tent depress their energies anil retard their civilization. Tiiat a valuable seam of coal exists on the hanks of the Waikato, which would be worked, and rendered available for the supply of Auckland, if the difficulties of the communication from the Waikato river to the Waiuku creek were removed. Unit your memorialists believe that the Awa,voa river might easily he rendered an excellent means of transit, and that a canal or tram-road might, at a comparatively small expense, he constructed from u one point on that river to the Waiuku creek, hy means whereof the communication between the town of Auckland and the ho-fore-named Waikato district might be rendered complete. Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully beg to call the attention of your Excellencies to tie. great advantages, as well to the European and Maori inhabitants ot the said district as to the town of Auckland, which would result from an improvement of the communication between the river Waikato and the Waiuku-clock, and pray that such communication may, without delay, be undertaken hy the Government, in such manner ■as may he found to bo most advantageous and .complete. ( Here follow the Signatures.) Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland, .‘list May, lb-ad. Gentlemen —By direction of his Excellency the Governor, I have the honour to acknowledgetebe receipt of your memorial respecting the improvefTp cut of the communication between this river and the rivers Waikato and Waipa, and to inform you that the Deputy Surveyor-General has been in•strutted to make an estimate of the probable cost of clearing the Awaroa of timber, and also of making a tram-road from that river to the Waiuku creek. I have the honour to he, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial See. To Messrs. Fenton, Heather, and others signing the memorial.

Coroner's Inquest. —An Inquest was held yesterday, -Ist instant, at the “ lloyal George, Epsom Head, before Dr. Davies, Coroner, on view of the body of Mr. James Magee, a very old settler in (he neighbourhood of Onehunga. St appeared from the evidence adduced, that (ho deceased left his home at IMikakc on Saturday last, and did not intend to return (ill Sunday or Monday; but his mare having been found on the Sunday morning near the Tamal.i cross road, search was made on Monday, by the son of the deceased and Mr. McQuoid, and they found the body lying in a swamp near Mr. Farmer’s farm, with the face buried in lire swamp, and lire body saturated with water. 1 here had e* idenlly been a struggle between (ire mare and the deceased, as the scrub for about ten yards round the body was torn to pieces; and from a wound in the bead of deceased, lire horse must have Kicked him so as to stun him, and whilst in that stale he was su (located in the w a tar. A bundle containing some calico and a pair ol woman s shoes, was found near - lire body, and two sovereigns and some papers were found on bis person. The Jury returned a verdict that “ the deceased died from suffocation in a swamp, having been accidentally thrown from his horse.”