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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 591, 2 April 1851, Page 2

It is reported that his Excellency the Go-vernor-in- Chief will proceed this day to ’? ?’ S ' Ft,J - Hls Excellency fre-CfegS “ ab °“ “

On the Acheron’s return fron th c I ward vve-gave a brief account of t] gress of her survey of the West n Hl the Middle Island; we are pers«^' fl the following particulars, wkieh»\. > since been able to collect,—-thong? 6 what detached —will be perused witlr ■ rest by our readers ; — The a i survey of the South and w ’h Coasts of New Zealand conm? » during her late cruise, in the vicinity jfl veaux Strait to where she had a former occasion. It included an fl nation of all the extensive sounds or of the sea which, commencing with pg ration Harbour terminate at the Krir H Haven of the present published ma'l New Zealand ; from thence northwaX® wards Cape Farewell her examination* J more partial, but included a visit to nF son’s or the Open Bay of map, which is the only anchorage fo t H seis in this long range of coast. Of the merous sounds which came under vation of the Acheron and her we were only thoroughly acquaint j one, the Dusky Bay of Cook, that iuX® ous navigator having described itintUJi lest manner, and we understand his tion has been corroborated in every p?I cular by the officers of the Acheron. servation and Chalky Harbours have?' peared in the charts ; but several reX able inlets between Dusky Bay and Jlwi Haven were only known to the few wlJ| and sealers who frequented that coast, fl learn that the description by Cook ofDiffl Bay applies generally to all these JI narrow arms of the sea running from teifl twenty and thirty miles inland, with J deep water, one hundred to two bun® fathoms having occasionally been obtaisj and very few anchorages for shipping, fl those of the most confined character, wife in the words of Cook, “ inland nothin’vfi to be seen but barren mountains with?/ craggy precipices, disjoined by valliesl rather chasms, frightful to behold.” ' F In the vicinity of Milford Haven the J pendous features of this mountainous d racter increased, and we are informed tl the entrance of this sound, for it ill desen the name of a haven, is a short half mile width, with perpendicular cliffs on .eitb side attaining an altitude of five thoiri feet. The natural productions of this r markable tract of country appear to be mited, though we learn that a gnxWdifi has been made to our knowledge of the h bits of the kiwi and ground parrot (kakap peculiar to New Zealand, as also oft! plants and geological character of them try. No natives were seen between Fovs Straits and Open or Jackson’s Bay, b , there is reason to attach some credit tot assertions of the natives of the Middle 14 that a tribe or tribes foreign in manner’s customs to our friends the Maories exifl these wild regions. [ From Open or Jackson’s Bay north*® the country assumes a different charactg these stupendous mountain ranges rec£ further from the sea coast, and wewf ; upon the countries described by Mes| Heaphy and Brunner: between JacH ; -

Bay and the river Grey, bordering coast, we are informed the loftiest mousQ in New Zealand presented itself to®l Acheron’s crew, attaining an elevation!B twelve thousand feet. f The country recently surveyed by® Acheron has been the terra incognita, biMgj Zealand, the accounts we have hithert?j|j ceived of it having been of a general nature. The labours of this p veying expedition will, in this respect, of incalculable advantage to the coloO supplying information where it was n j desired, in making known the generoi tures of the country, and in putting the® tiers, at length, in possession of an i-’gl rate and most accurate survey of the tfVj of these islands, supplying all the tion requisite for the development oU j future coasting trade of the colony l ft may in conclusion add, that theobserva® that have been made either by the oftjj of the Acheron, or by preceding v °y a ’W all tend to confirm the general the surveys and descriptions of that ibK 1 ous navigator, Captain Cook, is so intimately connected with NewZ eai! |j ====== j A deputation consisting of Messr='Jp! ] son, Johnston, Fitzherbert, Waitt and _ ham, had an interview with his Ex# , the Governor-in-Chief, on the proposed Bank to be established in i ton. We understand the interview a very satisfactory nature; his Exc? , promised the Deputation to introduce . next Session of the General E e §’’j Council of New Zealand, an Ordine incorporating the Company, and sugg ’ that they should apply for powers to e them to increase their capital and ex^ eD - operations to other settlements in n land, His Excellency also furnished

utation with a copy of the Royal Instructions relating to the establishment of Joint Stock Banks in the British Colonies.