DESPATCH FROM THE DIRECTORS OF THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY TO THEIR PRINCIPAL AGENT. (Copy.)

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 111, 22 August 1846, Page 2

DESPATCH FROM THE DIRECTORS OF THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY TO THEIR PRINCIPAL AGENT. (Copy.)

New Zealand House, Broad Street Buildings, 28th February, 1846. Sir, — The public events, with which the news-apers will have made you acquainted, having been attended, among other consequences, with the retirement of Lord Stanley from the Colonial Office, and the accession of the Right Honorable "William Ewart Gladstone as his successor, I am happy to inform you that a Deputation of the Directors have sought and obtained an interview with the latter gentleman, with which they have found much reason to be gratified. They have been met in a spirit of the utmost cordiality and frankness, and have been invited to submit their views with perfect unreserve upon all matters which they may deem essential to the welfare of the Company or of New Zealand. This they are about to do; — and although it is yet too early to enter into particulars, or to communicate the whole of the objects to which those views may ex-

tend, the Directors are not only convinced that their representation will obtain the most attentive consideration on the part of Mr. Gladstone, but sanguine in their hope that all the great questions', by the non-adjustment of which New Zealand has so long heen distracted, will be settled in a satisfactory manner, good, government be established, and other measures be adopted, tending alike to the prosperity of the Colonists and the wellbeing of the, Company. It is probable that by the Madras, appointed to sail for New Zealand direct on the 15th of next month, I shall have it in my power to write in more definite terms. But the Court was unwilling to allow even the opportunity afforded by the monthly Sydney packet to pass by, without instructing me to communicate to you thus much (with permission to make it known in any way you may deem fit), for the purpose of encouraging" the settlers, and sustaining their hopes tinder the harassing uncertainties to which they are still exposed. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, T. C. Harrington, Secretary. Colonel W. Wakefield. Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, Wellington.