New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, August 9, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 628, 9 August 1851, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, August 9, 1851.

The arrival of the Scotia from Hobart Town has put us in possession of English news to April 12th, which will be found in our fourth page. An arrival from California at Hobart Town had brought news to the 12th May, another most disastrous fire had occurred at San Francisco causing the destruction of the greater part of the city, and occasioning a loss of property of the estimated value of 15,000,000 dollars. The town of Stockton had also suffered from a most destructive fire, which was supposed to have “prh of an incendiary. Want of room obliges us to defer our extracts California news and other interesting matters to our nextnumber. 7 h' a

The heavy rain 6n Wednesda w ni"hi has we understand, occasioned a damage in various places. Several land slips nave taken place along the road to Petom, and on the Porirua road. A part ‘O miller s house at Ngahuranga was carneu away by the sudden rush df water, anffthe newJy made road to Mr.’Cooper’s public house, near Wade’s Town, Has also been washed away. The rain was more lift e that experienced during the rainy season., in bered raPlCa ' ■ ■ ' r ‘7, ?

We are indebted to a friend the Lyttelton Times of Julv IQik 5 d Sir George Grey’s the Canterbury Association. 7?"8 b this in justice to our contemporar? time we alluded to the subject u day, we were under the impression a “ 5f - Excellency’s observations had not in that Journal. The copies of th. TV»nz?-s of that date illfatdd Maria have not beeif 1 and it was by mere accident we copy of the Times referred to. ,