New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, December 29, 1849.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 460, 29 December 1849, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, December 29, 1849.

Thb arrivals this week have been very numerous. The Ptkin arrived on Wednesday last from Otago having left that port the previous Friday. She reached Otago on the fitlrinst. after a passage of Tl9' day» from England. Yesterday the Thames from London via Auckland, and. the Maid of Erin from Sydney entered the harbour together. The Thames has brought an Auckland mail, the papers by which supply the news of intermediate dates to those previously received, The Emma and Eliza from Sydney has also touched at this port on her way to California. The English news by way of Sydney isof later date than that received by the Pekin, the intelligence by the latter vessel extending only to the Bth of August. The following vesse's were advertized to sail for New Zealand ; the Cornelia to sail for Wellington and Auckland 15th August, the. St. Michael for Auckland and Wellington Ist September, and the Monarch for Otago, Akaroa, and. the other southern settlements to sail punctually on the 27th September. The Directors of the New Zealand Company had also advertised for a vessel to sail punctually the 1 lth September. The Monarch it is stated in the New Zealand Journal, had'been laid on by Mr. Robinson, formerly Police Magistrate at Akaroa, and the greater number of the cabins were engaged. ' A New Zealand Land Conveyance Bill had been pissed, a short description of which, together with a report of the debate on its second reading in the House of Commons, we have extracted from the Nt*a Zealand Journal.

Wb hate great pleasure in announcing the Publication of the Cook's Strait Almanack for the ensuing year. In addition to the usual amount of information in .this useful little publication, the Almanack contains t&» longitude and latitude of some of the principal places in the Southern Province as determined by the observations of Capt. Stoke* of H. M. Steamer Acheron, with a careful abstract of the Ordinances passed in the last Session of the Legislavive Council of this [Province.

A meeting was held at the Britannia Saloon on Thursday evening for the purpose of making the preliminary arrangements connected with the Anniversary Fete, when a Gfeneral Committee was elected, a meeting of which is to take place on Monday evenmg iiext at the Commercial Hotel. -

Tas following is the score of the Cricket Match played at Thorndon on Saturday last.

Ist Innings. 2nd Innings. Sarker c. Wood 0 icammell not out 0 irindieyb. Wood 22 Greenwood c, Thomas.. 5 Valentine c. Deighton . . 2 H'Veaghb.Wood 5 billing, b. Wood 0 Tarter run 0ut.. ........ 0 Sims b. Thelwall 4 >hillips b. Thelwall ....12 3arker b. Wood 2 Byes 10 Wide balls 1 No balls 1 not out 67 not out 0 not out 0 c Hamlfty, V.-.IQ not out 0 run out 2 not out 0 not out 10 not out 0 not out 0 not out ...... 0 Byes .... 5 Wide balls 3 f ' 64 97 Tnf ni <

nom>cok missioned officers and privates 65th regiment.

* I Ist Innings. TrMFordc. Brindley .... 0 Barnard b. Green wood.. 15 Thel wall b. Greenwood.. 2 Wood b. Greenwood. . . .26 Hamley c. Valentine . . 2 Raymond run out 5 Thomas c. Barker 2 Deightonc. Greenwood.. 0 White c. Gjreeuwood .... 1 Wallace b." Greenwood . . 0 Ormond not out 1 Byes • 9 Wide balls 1 2nd Inningi. b. Brindley .. 2 run out 2 c. Gilling .... 8 c. Valentine .. 2 c. Gilling 37 c. Phillips .... 2 b. Barker .... 1 b. Valentine ..15 not out 9 run out ...... 0 b. Barker .... 1 Byes 10 Wide balls 1 61 90 Total

OFFICERS AND CIVILIANS.