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New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 878, 13 September 1854, Page 3

Bv the Nelson steamer we have received a number of journals from ihe Southern Provinces. The latest dates are, Wellington, August 50 ; Nelson, September, (> ; Canterbury, August 20; Olago, August 12, and New Plymouth, September C. The Session of the General Assembly at Auckland of course places us rather in the position of communicating than of receiving the most important colonial intelligence. We do not observe in these files much local news of pressing iuterest ; and we prefer postponing any extensive notice of their contents that we may devote all our available space until after the sailiug of the Nelson to matters which will command attention in the South as well as here. information of the disruption of the Ministry had reached our contemporaries, but they had not yet heard of the prorogation and its sequel. As might be expected, opinions differ on the merits of the questions at issue. The Wellington Spectator concurs in the views we have advocated in these columns; while the Independent lakes the other side so far as it permits itself to express anything unconnected with vehement and incessant abuse of Mr. Wakefield. Nearly the whole of the papers in the South have their "Own Correspondents," writing their own accounts and opinions from Auckland ; and an abundance oi local cosrespondenls silting in judgment on the facts. A comprehensive and well-written letter from Messrs. Travers and Maekay appears in the Nelson Examiner, laving before their constituents a statement of their reasons for supporting Colonel Wynyard in the emergency forced upon him by his " responsible advisers." The Examiner, however, controverts their conclusions. Mr. William Fox had so far taken lime by the forelock as already to publish an Address as candidate for the Hull, in the event of an approaching dissolution. Some excitement had been produced in Canterbury, by a report that Cold had been discovered in the direction of the Malvern Hills. The Lijllcllon Times gives credence to the report, but waits for further evidence as lo the quantity.