AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 588, 22 March 1851, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

| The following answer has been given by | Lord Grey to the Memorial from Auckland | for the recall of Sir George Grey :— Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland, Feb. 4, 1851. i Gentlemen,' —By the command of the GoH vernor-in- Chief, I ‘have the honor to inform I you that his Excellency has been directed by | Earl Grey in a despatch dated the 20th of I May last, to acquaint you that your Memo- | rial of the 9th November, 1849, requesting I the recall of his Excellency Governor Grey, | has been received by his Lordship. | . 1 have the honor to beygentlemen, ri Your very obedient servant, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. | Mr, Hemy Weekes, and others signing the Memorial. || Matakana Coal.—A Meeting of the if Subscribers to the fund for testing whether a U supply of Coal can be obtained at Matakana, B -j-as appears probable from the indications H near the surface, —was held at the Exchange H Hotel on Wednesday. F. Whitaker Esq. K occupied the Chair. Mr. Walter Robertson, ft at the commencement of the proceedings, pro--3 posed that the Subscription should be extendI”‘ «d from £3OO to £5OO, in order to afford .some who felt an interest in the undertaking an opportunity of uniting in it, from which they had been debarred by the rapid filling up gof the List. It was thought, however, that g .the sum already subscribed would be sufficient for the experiment, and that such an extension ■ .of the List would not be fair to tbe original B Subscribers. The motion dropped, not being E seconded A conversation then took B place respecting the numbers of votes to be || allowed to Subscribers at this and future p meetings. It was determined that the followK ing should be the scale : —Subscribers under || £5, one vote ; above £5, and under £lO, li two votes ; above and under £l5, three |I votes; above £l5 and under £2O, four votes; ® £25 and upwards five votes. .... The followH ing gentlemen were then appointed a ComImittee to conduct the operations, and to negociate with Mr. Greenwood, the owner of the mine, respecting the terms on which a Company—should the success of tbe experiment induce the formation of one —might obtain the right of working it, viz.—Messrs W. S Bourne, W. Brown, D. Burn, W. Connell, S A Kennedy, F. Whitaker, and W. Williams. R •— New Zealander, February 15. K The returns of cases treated at the Colonial Hospital, New Plymouth, from January tc K December, 1850, are certified by P. Wilson, E Esq., Colonial Surgeon. The number pre■S sented at the Dispensary was five hundrec K and sixty. The nnmber treated in the Hos= K P<tal was eighty-three, of which seventy-sever ■ were discharged, two died, and four remained B February. 19.

Three Kings’ Native School.—ln an account of an examination held at this interesting and flourishing institution which appeared in our columns in the latter part of November, we stated that a new and much larger School Room was in progress of erection, mainly by the aid of funds granted for the purpose by the Governor-in-Chief, We learn with pleasure that this important and much needed addition to tbe Establishment has been completed, and was opened on Monday last, when Divine Service was conducted in the new Building, and a Sermon preached in the Maori language by the Rev. Thomas Buddle. The friends of Native Education will rejoice that increased facilities have thus been afforded for the carrying out of the admirable Training System which Mr. Reid, under less advantageous circumstances, had already brought into operation with such beneficial results.— Ibid.

On Sunday, those clippers the Helen S. Page and Lightning, both full of New Zealand produce, sailed on their rival course to California. The llio-Mama (Greyhound) is also nearly full, and, although the last to start, may not prove the last in the enterprising race. It is cheering to see three such smart vessels exerting their antagonistic powers of industry,—relieving us of that produce which we can so readily and so abundantly grow. Although our exports of the present year, to San Francisco, may not be so large in amount as those of last year, it is to be hoped, from a more accurate knowledge of the market, that they will yield a much more favourable return. According to the statement of the President of the Agricultural Society, upwards of £7OOO worth of vegetables had been shipped prior to the departure of these vessels.— Southern Cross, 25 th February.