H,M.S. Racehorse sails to-day for England direct. H.M.S. Fly will also sail to-day for Otakou and the Auckland Islands.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 287, 29 April 1848, Page 2

H,M.S. Racehorse sails to-day for England direct. H.M.S. Fly will also sail to-day for Otakou and the Auckland Islands.

By the late arrivals we have received Sydney papers to the Bth inst. The Legislative Council commenced its sittings on the 21st of March, and Sir Charles Fitzroy's speech on the opening of the Council appears to have given very general satisfaction. Two clergymen of the Church of England officiating in the diocese of Sydney, the Rev. R. K. Sconce, 8.A., of St. Andrew's Church, Sydney, and the Rev. T. Makinson, M.A., of St. Peter's Church, Cook's River, have resigned their licenses, and seceded to the Church of Rome. The Australian says that owing to the unreasonable and extravagant expectations entertained by the newly arrived immigrants in the Hyderabad, seventy of them still remained, at the end of a fortnight after their at rival without engagements. One young woman refused an excellent situation as housemaid, because she expected her father would be engaged as a land steward ! and then she would have nothing to do but to wait upon him.

Tommy Raupakaha, the son of Te Rauparaha, has paid to his account at the Uuion Bank of Australia the sum of two hundred pounds, being his share of the last instalment of the purchase money of the Porirua and Wairau districts.

Programme of the Performance by the Band of the 65th Regiment at Thorndon Flat, on Tuesday, the 2nd May:— 1. Overture — Fra Diavolo Auber 2. Aria— La Muette de Portici Auber 3. Minuet Quadrille Jullien 4. Aria — Fra Diavolo Auber 5. Fleur de Marie Waltz Barret 6. Cavatina— Oh! hear me gentle \ Wa n ace Maritana J 7. Galop— Gustavus Avler 8. Cricket Polka Jullien