New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, October 8, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 645, 8 October 1851, Page 3

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, October 8, 1851.

the late arrivals we have received Eni news to the 17th June, and late news i the Australian colonies and the southsettlements. The Lord William Benl had arrived in England after a pas- • of one hundred and fifteen days, and advertised to sail for Auckland, New nouth, and Wellington on the Ist AuThe committee of the House of Comis had decided by a vote of 11 to 5 that steam communication with the Austracolonies should be by way of the Cane j>ood Hope.

"he Lyttelton Times states that a negoon is in progress between the Governit and the New Zealand Company for sferring the Company’s debt from the d Fund to the General Revenue of the ny. The job appears to be so monstrous unjust to the colonists as scarcely to be lible, but the Times pledges itself to the re accuracy of the intelligence; want of m obliges us to defer our observations on subject to our next number. Tie Sydney papers continue to describe h discoveries of gold, and to give flour's accounts of the diggings, from which e quantities of gold are weekly forded to Sydney. The elections under the Constitution had commenced in New th Wales: at Sydney the reverend dengue and agitator. Dr, Lang, with Mr, >h and Mr. Wentworth, had been reed members of the new Council. The deplores Dr. Lang’s return as a relch and stigma to Sydney. Many of the ricts do not appear likely to be contested.