New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, February 20, 1850.
We publish to day another letter from Mr. Wakefield to Mr. Petre on Colonial Politics, forwarded by the Berkshire, wfiich we received by the Woodstock. We shall take an early opportunity of adverting to some of the topics contained in this letter. We also learn that the New Zealand Company have agreed to gire the Absentee Land Owners compensation at the rate of seventyfive acres for each Preliminary Landorder.
In the last number of the Independent, a string of resolutions has been published emanating, as we are informed, from the Settlers' Constitutional Association. We give the first as a sample of the rest : — 1. That this Association, believing that it is the duty of all colonies to assist each other in resisting acts df*oppression emanating from the Mother Country; and this Association therefore expresses its cordial sympathy with the colonists of Cape colony in the noble and resolute opposition which they have, with so much unanimity and singleness of purpose, offered to the proposed introduction of convicts into the colony. This resolution is stated to have been seconded by Mr. Fox, Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, the decus et tutamert of the journal in which the resolutions have appeared, who some time since published in the same journal a series of papers on education written in a very dogmatical style, and chiefly remarkable, as shewing howl ill informed the writer was of the subject of which he was treating. Tn the resolution, we have quoted, not to notice other solecisms, we find the nominative case standing alone in its glory without any verb that should agree with it. Perhaps the Doctors of the Association will tell us, in the words of their confrere in the Malade Imaginaire» Nons avow change tout cela ! The best comment on this precious production will be in the words of an article in the Independent (Feb. 6.) probably from the pen of Mr. v Fox himself? with such alterations (substituting Faction for Nominees,. &c.,) as will more completely adapt it to the subject. " One of the Faction seconds a resolution so repugnant to Lindley Murray, exhibiting such a hash of conjunctions and all parts of speech, as any charity boy would be well trounced for composing. This is not " mere verbal criticism" but a very fair test of the intelligence of the Faction, and if Mr. Fox be a sample of the lot, they would prove a curious set of legislators to cram laws down the throats of intelligent and educated men."
The Thames sailed yesterday for California laden with timber and other New Zealand produce, she has also several passengers ; her departuie was regarded with considerable interest, as, if the speculation prove successful, it may prove the means of opening a profitable trade between this settlement and California.
The American whaler Omega, Capt. Morey, of Fairhaven, U.S., 10 days from the Chatham Islands, put in to this port on Sunday for the purpose of taking in water before commencing her homeward cruise. The Omega has been out 37 months and has
1600 barrels black oil, 600 sperm,, i and 22 cwt, bone. Before Jeavin&tjje'C&a^ tham Islands, she spoke tb*ef barque. Harvest, 1900 barrels.- Captain -Morey has bee*^ cruising 'in the Arctic 'Ocean, about the Same time'witH the Franklin, mentioned in the^extract from the Friend published in our last number : he found the sea comparatively clear of ice and free from danger, and the whales very plentiful. There were about sixteen whalers cruising in those latitudes at the time the Omega left.
Programme of the performance of the Band of the 65th Regt., at Thorndon Flat, on Wednesday, February 20th : — 1. Overture de la Prise d'A1ger. ....... Brepsant. 2. Second Selection Maid of Honor .... Balfe. 3. Moscow Quadrille Bouaquet. 4. Selection — La Figlia del Reggimento. . Donizetti. 5. Leg Beauties de Vienna ou Die Martramme Waltzer Prince B. Metternich. 6. Geschwind March Walch. 7. German Galop Reichter. 8. Drum Polka Jullien.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 475, 20 February 1850, Page 2
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