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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 574, 1 February 1851, Page 3

We understand that the following public works ar »d improvements have been actually J ordered by Sir George Grey since his arrival ‘4 from the North, and are in progress in this ■flj settlement: A Colonial Hospital, to be erected jjton the site of the former one, atThorndon; a Gaol, the site of which is on the hill imH mediately above the Public Cemetery at JI Thorndon, and the resumption of the works 8 of the Wairarapa road, altogether causing an expenditure of upwards of twenty thouS sand pounds. Besides these works, there U| i report that it is intended by the Go- » vernor-in-Chief to construct a road from the || Turakina to Wanganui, an improvement U greatly desired by the inhabitants of that setg tlement, a road from Ngahauranga to the Porir ua road greatly improving this main out- ® let of the settlement, and to give directions gg for the formation of a Pensioner village in the . , neighbourhood of Wellington. Surveyors II: have also been despatched by the Government ® to survey the Ahuriri district, the purchase of the greater portion of which has been efK fected by Mr. M’Lean, and which the Wai--111 rarapa road will connect directly with Weill lington. || Yesterday the part of the Grenadier Coms' pany of the 65th Regiment stationed at || Pauhatahanui.Rangihaeata’s former strongjg hold, marched into Wellington to the Bar- ® racks on Cook’s Mount, this station having ■ been abandoned as a military outpost. The % °n]y military outpost now maintained in the S neighbourhood of Wellington is that at Pa-

ramatta Point. This fact speaks volumes as to the effect of the Governor’s policy in promoting the tranquillity and prosperity of the Colony. As for Rangihaeata, that name of fear ’ on Sir George Grey’s arrival in New Zealand, who troubles himself now to enquire of his whereabout ? He has as completely ceased to be an object of alarm, or to be regarded as of any political importance as if he were actually, like Te Rauparaha, removed by death from this sublunary scene.