New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, October 14, 1848.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 335, 14 October 1848, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, October 14, 1848.

The Local Government have commenced taking the necessary measures for purchasing the Wairarapa district from its native owners. Mr, Kemp has, we believe, been appointed Commissioner on the part of the Government for the purpose of treating with the natives, and Mr. I)illon Bell, on the part of the New Zealand Company, will cooperate with Mr. Kemp in the negotiations to be entered into for this purpose, and no time' will be lost in takiog the necessary steps for completing this desirable arrangement. That their undertaking will be encompassed with many embarrassing difficulties, which have accumulated from the delays that have hitherto been suffered to occur, there can be little doubt ; but we liave as little doubt that these difficulties may eventually be overcome by patience and good management. Whatever obstacles may present themselves to those appointed to conduct this negociation, they ought to reckon on receiving the most cordial assistance from their fellow colonists residing in the district, as in truth this is one of the most important questions affecting the interests of this settlement which has yet arisen. The question depending on this purchase is, in fact, whether the locality of the new settlement of Canterbury shall be in the immediate neighbourhood of this settlement ; whether Wellington shall benefit by the proximity of a settlement planned on a more magnificent and extensive scale, and commenced under more favourable auspices r than any which has yet been attempted to be formed in New Zealand. If founded on its proposed site it must exercise a most beneficial and salutary influence on all the settlements in Cook's Strait, but especially on Wellington, which will become the Port of the new settlement. Perhaps the persons who will benefit most by this undertaking will be those who have already established stations for stock in the Wairarapa district. In carrying out the arrangement, the Government will not fail to shew them every consideration consistent with a due regard for the public interests. A new and profitable market will be opened to them for the sale of their surplus stock, and if it should ultimately be found necessary to include any of these stations in the new settlement, we have little doubt that every facility will be afforded the owneis of them to make such arrangements as may be most conducive to the interests of all parties. We cannot atpresent allow ourselves to contemplate the possibility of the alternative consequent on a failure of this negociation — the formation of the proposed settlement at another locality, peihaps to the Southward, — when all these extensive plans of systematic colonization, instead of promoting the* interests of the settlements in Cook's Strait, would in fact become opposed to them, by introducing a new element of dispersion Instead of uniting the present settlements into one compact whole. And yet until this purchase is completed the contingency exists, and we therefore allude to it for the purpose of giving an additional impulse to the labours of these gentlemen, and of securing the hearty co-operation of those settlers who have stations in the district in procuring a successful termination to their labours.

A notice appeared in yesterday's Government Gazette proclaiming the Footpath which has been recently formed from the corner of Mr, Scott's store, in Mulgrave Street, and thence to the end of the street and along Lambton Quay to the corner of Willis Street, and the footpath on the east side of Willis Street from the Beach to Ghuznee Street, as footpaths of the Town

of Wellington within the meaning of the Footpath Ordinance. According to the Ordinance — " If any person who shall be found running, drawing, or driving any truck, wheelbarrow, cart, or carriage, or who shall be found riding, leading, or driving any horse, or any horned or neat cattle, upon any such footpath as aforesaid, shall continue so to do, after being warned to the contrary, by any constable or other person, every person so offending shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of Five Pounds, to be recovered in a summary way."

Statement of the Wellington Savings Bank, for the quarter ending September 30, 1848:— Number of accounts brought forward 87 „ „ opened in quarter .... 9 96 Number of accounts closed during quarter. . 4 Carried forward 92

Mechanics' Institute. — The following books have been received by the Committee of the . Mechanics' Institute since the last general meeting of the members. Travels in North America, by the Hon. A. C. Murray, 2 vols; A Diary in America, byCapt. Marryatt, 3 volsr; Mackenzie's Sketches in Canada ; Analysis of Smith's Wealth of Nations ; The Art of Needle Work ; G. Bentham's Logic; The Black Book. — By Mr. Justice Chapman. 3 Temperance Journals; 1 Christian Guardian. — By Mr. Ironside. j British Cyclopaedia of Arts and Science, 2 vols.. Bvo. — By Mr Wylie. Pope's Homer'a Iliad, 11 vols.; The Chemist; Campbells Philosophy ; Register of Arts ; Leonard's Short Hand ; Scott's Demonology and j Witchcraft; Hume & Smollett's History of England, 24 vols. — By Mr. R. Hart. D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation. — By Mr. Lyon. J

11 vols. Reports of the Poor Law Commissioners; 3 vols. Cook's Voyages; 6 vols. Perronet Thompson's Political Essays; Ivol. The Implements of Agriculture.— By Col. Wakefield. Jerningham Wakefield's Adventures in New Zealand. 2 vols.— By Mr. E. J. Wakefield. Brees' Glossary of Civil Engineering ; Stevenson's Civil Engineering. — By. Mr. S. C. Brees. The Microcosm ; Mechanics' Magazine, vol, 1 : The Analytical Review, 1797 ; The Koran. 2 vols. — By Mr. Woodward.

Programme of the Performance by the Band of the 65th Regiment at Thorndon Flat, on Tuesday, the 17th October : —^ 1. Overture — Don Pasquale Donizetti 2. Aria — Ma Normandie, varied .... Harper 3. Maritana Quadrilles Cootes 4. Aria — Anon guinge O miaPeniser "1 g e m ni — Sonambula J 5. D*mph Waltz Lanner 6. Duetto — Belizario Donizetti 7. Galop Huz . 8. Helena Polka D' Albert

Wanganui. — We understand that a general reunion of all the tribes up the Wanganui river has recently taken place, being the first that has occurred since the termination of the war, upwards of two thousand persons were present, and all the chiefs of importance, who expressed themselves very solicitous for the maintenance of peace. The Rev. R. Taylor baptized some of the principal chiefs of the hostile tribes, one of them, Ngapara, taking the name of Grey, and another that of Alfred Wyatt.

37 accounts have been opened by mdi Tiduals (9 of them being aboriginal natives of New Zealand) which 37 •ccounts amount to the sum of . . £ 601 10 3 45 account!* have been opened by parties in trust for others, 2 of such trust accounts being for certain aboriginal natives of New Zealand) in the sum of 316 10 6 10 accounts have been opened in the names of Friendly and Benevolent Societies &c,, in the sum of 455 9 0 92 £1373 9 9 Assets of the Bank. Funded Government Debentures bearing 8 per cent, interest, reckoned at par £1342 3 9 Cash in Union Bank of Australia 244 3 7 £1586 7 4 Liabilities. Amount of deposits as above 1373 9 9 Nominal balance in favor of the Bank£ 212 17 7 (Signed) J. Wood ward, Actuary.

Dr. To balance of deposits as per last report £1,198 0 3 „ amount of deposits received as undar: — July 3, week eliding tnis day £2 10 0 Jnly 10, do. do 2 0 0 July 17, do. do 80 0 0 Ju7y 24, do. do 9 16 0 July3l, do. do 23 2 6 Aug. 7, do. do 14 13 0 Aug. 14, do. do 13 12 0 Aug.2l, do. do 3 6 0 A0g.28, do. do 29 18 2 Sept. 4, do. do 16 9 0 Sept. 11, do. do 0 18 0 Sept. 18, do. do 30 10 0 Sept. 25,d0. do 7 0 0 233 14 S Interest added to amounts withdrawn 0 7 6 1,433 2 4 To balance of interest as per last report 28 12 7 Lessinterestpaid on accounts withdrawn 0 7 6 Lesscharges.paidActuary quarter's salary 8 15 0 9 2 0 19 10 1 To sundry amounts ■written off to contingent account, as per last report 1 3 9 £1,452 16 2 Cit. By amounts withdrawn, as under : — July 3, week ending this day:— £23 0 0 July 31, do. do 13 2 Aug. 7, do. do 2 0 0 Aug. 14, do. do 4 0 0 Aug. 21. do. do 7 0 10 Aug. 28, do. do 5 18 2 Sept. 4, do. do 5 8 3 Sept. 18, do. do 10 2 2 38 12 7 Byfundeddebentures in hand, as per last Norn.value Cost. report 1,242 3 9 1,050 0 0 By cash repaid to Colonial Treasury.being advance made hy the Government to the Bank Aug. 7, 1847, against which advance debentures were lodged for .. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1,150 0 0 BycashinTJnionßank of Australia 244 3 7 £1,342 3 9 £1,452 16 2 , e ._ a , f GEO. HUNTE*, \ A^Aitnra (Signed | w M b^jj^Vnb, } Auditors. Wellington, 7th October, 1848.

Balance Sheet of the "Wellington Savings Bank for the quarter ending September 30, 1848:—