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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 593, 9 April 1851, Page 2

The New Zealand Journal has ceased to exist, and its dissolution has followed so closely upon that of its former patrons the New Zealand Company as to appear almost like cause and effect. Whether its dissolution has been owing to this cause, or whether it littkHnfl l f ° r ° f SU PP° rt ’ exercising as lit.le influence and exciting as little interest among the friends of the colony in England as among the settlers in New is a matter of perfect indifference. It is suffiits placehS’b a " d t 0 ,tate tkat pubthed by X X a "^ her fortnight, and XS th P . r ° P J' C Or ?. "“I New ZeaJwA r „ T thc Austra ban and nf la d G ? Sette ’ In the third number of the new publication (Nov. 16th) is a t 0 tl,e directors of the New Zeaand Company from the absentee holders of landorders at Nelson on the subjec of the m o eTand tlon f aWardB made in settleDunn a G ’ refernn ? m ° re Particularly to the Duppa Compensation Job, they require these

awards " to be wholly set aside as u • and inequitable,” or if such a course be f" impracticable that a similar amount of pensation be granted to the non-resid 0111, 1 On the latter proposal it is sufficient serve that, if compensation is to be m , out to the absentees on the same scale has been awarded to the resident land n 3B chasers, if the Duppa Compensation J O P k-' to form the rule for the satisfaction of th ■’ claims, the whole of New Zealand would fa hardly sufficient to meet their demands. T? editor of the Gazette in alluding to these nr | ceedings naturally asks what must I the conduct of the Company’s Agent in th’ 3 I matter; how he who was bound to protects I Company’s interests should have ? I shamefully betrayed them ? and righty’ | poses it impossible that Sir George Gre* i will allow such proceedings to be ratified I But the astonishment ofthe absentees willbe' I considerablymcreased when they become fa||„ | acquainted with the history of this | sation affair, when they learn the pg>-j u I Fox has taken in these proceedings, esp e ‘ t cially when they compare his Weak anj equivocating defence with the charges wfe have been brought home against him, The editor of the Gazette make a curious admis. sion when he states that one of his articles referring to this subject (we presume means the Duppa Job) ”in the land Journal vias, suppressed by an officer of the New Zealand Company;” we should! hardly haveexpectedsoopen a confession o (| the degree of influence exercised by the Newi Zealand Company over the Journal, OmS good result, it is hoped, may attend this movement, that the Nelson Trust funds wil at length be applied to the purposes fa which they were originally set apart; dot that these funds have fallen into the hands of Government the business assumes a mote hopeful aspect than when they remained h the control of the Company. As our readers may be desirous of seeing the remarks to which we have alluded we have reprinted them, together with the memorial of th Nelson absentees to the Company.