New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, November 2, 1850.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 548, 2 November 1850, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, November 2, 1850.

Thb Nelson Examiner of October 26, con* tains a letter from Dr. Monro, and another from Mr. Godley on Nomineeism, referring more particularly to a resolution passed at a meeting of the Settlers' Constitutional Association. The length of the correspondence, which \re have republished, obviates the necessity of any observations on our part, further than to remark that Mr. Godley's letter appears to consist rather of assumption

than argument, since he takes for granted that which he desires to prove. The same paper contains an account of a meeting of Land-purchasers at Nelson, held to take into consideration the conditions on which the New Zealand Company now offer to their purchasers in that settlement a conveyance of their lands. These appear to be, first, a charge of one pound for each conveyance, which was objected to as a heavy tax ; secondly, a clause ambiguously worded and difficult to be understood containing reservations in favour of the Company ; and thirdly, a receipt required from the Landpurchasers the effect of which would be to deprive them of any claim on the Company for the Trust Funds, amounting by the admission of the latter to £25,000, but which the Nelson settlers state to be nearer £50,000. A very general and strong feeling was excited among the Land-purchasers by these modest proposals, and they resolved rather .than stultify themselves by consenting to • them to refuse taking the conveyances altogether. As we intend publishing the article to which we refer, we refrain for the present from any further observations with reference to this subject* At Otago the News complains of the conduct of the Resident Agent, who, "having been called upon by authority," whether that of the Principal Agent, or of the Directors of the Company, is not stated, has entered into a crusade against the labouring class of that settlement, whom he seems determined, so far as the Company's power extends, to put down and to keep down, by turning them off the reserved lands and refusing them advantages readily granted to others. A meeting of the labouring class had in consequence been called to take into consideration the propriety of chartering a vessel "to convey them to some settlement where there may be a better prospect of obtaining an honest livelihood;" — a privilege it seems denied them by the Agents of the New Zealand Company.

Military. — The light company, and company letter C of the 65th Regiment under the command of Capt. Murray, and Lieuts. Rhatigan and Paul, stationed at Porirua and Pauhatahanui, marched into Wellington, yesterday, ha ving been relieved by the Grenadier company under the command of Lieuts. Bazelgette, Trafford and Gordon.