The Governorship of New Zealand.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 760, 27 July 1853, Page 2

The Governorship of New Zealand.

A report that Lord Lyttelton is to he Governor of this colony has obtained cn cu lion and some c redence. The only refers to it which we have seen in print is the lowing, which appears in the NavaLm* gence of the Phjmouth Mail for April !-•' i( The Desperate j 8, screw-frigal®?

fhambers, goes to New Zealand, it is said, with I nrd Ly Mellon, the new Governor.” We copy this as at least a current rumour on a matter of interest, only aitldng that, after 3 diligent search through our recent London «les we have been unable to find any confirmation of it, or even any allusion whatever to the subject. 58th Regiment.— The London Gazelle of Anril 8, announces amongst the Army Bromotions the following Ensign Mi( had XNie to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Duncan deceased.”

By the Overland Mail we have received Wellington papers to the 25th nit. The Nomination of Superintendent for the province was fixed for the 2nd of this month, and the polling (if there should be a contest) for the 16th. There was no other candidate than Dr. Fealherslon in the field however. An Address had been presented to the Governor from the Wellington settlors, expressing a sense of the benefit couleircd on the Colony bv the Cheap Land Regulations., His Excellency had replied in terms similar to those in which he acknowledges the Auckland addresses on the same gratifying subject. A despatch from Sir John Pakington to the Governor with reference to the sale of lands in Otago was published in the Gazelle. Its purport is that— although the legal control over the lands in that Settlement has row devolved on the Queen in consequence of the Association’s inability to sell the stipulated quantity of land,-' yet it is deemod advisable by Her Majesty’s Government that the land should continue to be administered in general conformity with the u rms hitherto subsisting, until the General Assembly shall have otherwise determined. We have no account in these papers ol the Governor’s movements; but wo are info? mod on the authority of private letters that bis Excellency sailed by the Government Brig for Nelson and Canterbury on the 25th ult. Ilis Slav in those Settlements would not probably be long, however, and it was believed that his Excellency and Lady Grey may be expected to reach Auckland before the end of August.