SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 104, 29 July 1846, Page 3

SYDNEY.

The Dry Weather. —ln New South Wales, it is vain to say any time before three months of the harvest that it will fail. If weekly showers were now to commence, and continue to Christmas throughout the colony, we should have abundant crops. But if the present drought continue another month, our prospects of a good harvest will be greatly reduced. Butter in Sydney is now from one to two shillings a pound, the shilling bulter being very bad. Cheese is from ten-pence to four-teen-pence. They will soon be higher. Potatoes will stand us in good stead il" they have had good crops in Van Diemen's Land. But the new Governor will find, that to his squating difficulties, he will most likely have to contend, no long time hence, with heavy complaints from the poor. Even the wool next October, unless there be a sufficiency of spring rains, will be deteriorated ; a great deal of it will be for want of full ponds badly washed. A Mr. Stoddart, a passenger in the ship Rajah, confirms a report that had previously appeared in the Melbourne newspapers, and had been denied, that the Rajah, on the night of the 24th of May, passed by some person* either on a spar or in a boat in distress ; that a cry was heard, but every effort to discover whence it proceeded was vain. Coal from Western Point, of quality sufficiently good for culinary purposes, had been introduced into Melbourne, and it is stated can be procured from the same vicinity in interminable abundance.

The New Colony. —ln the Times report of Lord Stanley's remarks respecting the new colony to the Northward, Lord Stanley is made to say :—": —" Her Majesty's government had appointed .an additional colony to the North of New South Wales, beyond the limits guaranteed to that colony, and not so tropical as to be unhealthy, —and there those might go who, having passed through a certain portion of their sentence in Van Diemeu's Land, might not be able to support themselves in that island : provisions would be furnished them for a limited period, and land assigned them ; and as opportunity occurred they might enter the adjoining settlements, and engage in the serrice of the population." All the reports agree in one fact, that the new colony is not to be tropical: it must therefore be on the eastern coast of New Holland. —Sydney Morning Herald.