CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 226, 29 September 1847, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

[From the Auttralian, September 3.] Cape of Good Hope papers to the latter end of May have been received. \Vfhen the John Souchay left the Cape for the Mauritius (which vessel arrived at Hobart Town on- the 22d ult.), Van Diemen's Land wheat was said to be realizing 12s. per bushel ; and flour £33 per ton. Sir H. F. Young arrived at Port Elizabeth on the 20tb of April. At his own request he was received only as a private gentleman. He proceeded direct to Graham's Town, accompanied by his sister, the widow of Colonel Peake. It was said he seemed to take great interest in his government, and was very solicitous for information. He visited the church, school, commercial hall, gaol, and some of the stores at Port Elizabeth, and observed he did not expect to see so considerable a settlement. He intimated that the Recliffe Lighthouse, an iron building, was fast preparing ; and the Government intended to lay down moorings in the bay. In noticing Sir H. F. Young's arrival at the Cape, in the steamer Poitinger, the Commercial Advertiser considers that the colonists may receive it " as a proof of the determination of her Majesty's Government to restore and maintain good order in the Eastern Provinces ;" and the Graham's Town Journal says, in reference to bis appointment, that "all is gratifying, and augurs well for the future, and that faith in the Home Government must return after these results."