COMMUNICATED.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 45, 3 January 1843, Page 2

COMMUNICATED.

' . As it%nay he satisfactory to the majority of the Scotch settlers ip New Zealand, to know the deep interest which the Church of Scotland at home has, in consequence of the representations of the Rev. J. Macfarlane, taken in their and in that-of the Colony rgenbrally, we communicate the following extrack Irorn the Home midFareign Missionary Record* of date Ist .September last,, published by aulhority of the Comrnl ttee of the General.Assenltly—- ; ‘‘ Lri consequence of Mr. Dudley (Sinclair having- removed, to the seat. of Government in

this Colony, it became necessary for the Committee, to appoint some Jo attend to the interests of the They have therefore prepared a power o&attorney- in favor of Mr. Strang; to enable/him ntrajage the lot of land in New Zealand belbngih|k “to-ilm Committee, “ The Committee have sent to Government a Memorisil-fot aid ; in supporting another minister Zealand, "and to take at least part of the burden of Mr. Macfarlane’s support off the Committee ; 'and also to grant some allowance towards erecting a ehurch and manse for Mr. Macfarlane. To flfis Memorial the Committee have received ah answer, stating that until the Government of the Cdlony be regularly organized, the Memorial' must lie over. . f “ Communications of great interest have been received from the Rev. Mr. Macfarlane, but as the more important portions ready been published in the* ‘’ Record/ the Committee shall not advbrt /to Them at present, farther than to call the attention of the Assembly to the satisfactory evidence they afford as to the advantages arising to the Colony, and particularly to the Scottish settlers, from the appointment of Mr. Macfarlane, and to the earnest appeal made by that excellent individual for the mission of another spiritual laborer.”

The arrival of the New Year was greeted with the usual salute of cannon, musketry, &c.; and the bells of the ships in harbour added their din to the general noise. At ten minutes before seven o’clock on Sunday morning, a rather severe shock of an earthquake was felt, and again about eleven o’clock at night.

Distressing Accident. —On Sunday evening last, a person by the name of Saunders, a policeman, living at Wade’s Town, who was preparing to go on duty, and, in the act of lifting his pistol from off the table, it accidentally went off, when, sad to relate, the bullet with which it was loaded, passed through the breast of M'Carthy, his brother-in-law, who died almost instantly. A Coroner’s inquest was held on the body, and a verdict of accidental death returned.