New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, November 8, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 654, 8 November 1851, Page 3

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, November 8, 1851.

The arrivals on Friday from the Southward have bi ought us papers from Canterbury and Otago. We glean no local intelligence from the Lyttelton Times beyond the arrival of the Canterbury, o" the 21st October, with numerous passengers, cabin and steerage; the Times, of November 1, announces her departure for Port Phillip direct. Mr. Godley’s 'organ contains two silly and angry articles furiously attacking Colonel Campbell, the Land Commissioner recently appointed to the districts not included in the Canterbury block, whose chief offence appears to be that he has been heated shabbily by the Canterbury Associns* • • * ana or course ms appointment to an office which Mr. Godley would have been too glad to see filled by one of his favourites 13 a further aggravation of his offence. The writer in the Times therefore criticises in no gentle mood two official notices that have been published by the gallant Colonel, ar.d feeling the annexation principle rising strongly within him utters a faint disclaimer °f it, assuring his readers that his strictures are not written from any feelings of jealousy “that the Government should endeavour to establish a settlement on the land which the Canterbury colonists desired flight be annexed to their settlement,” but that they are prompted by the very best feelings and intentions. We have little U °ubt the gallant Colonel will, in the efficient discharge of his duties, fully justify the propriety and wisdom of his appointment. We are sorry to learn from private sources upwards of 60 persons have left Canterj r y f° r the Sydney dinrrinp-R in Hip T.m.10 I Miriam, and fear these departures will I e followed by others to Melbourne bv the pesels returning to that Port for Stock.

e are sorry to be obliged to repeat the ‘ticism of the New Zealand Gazette on the fn-^ "^ nest “that it contains nothing “t f er a B usual.” A report is given in the ness October 18, of a meeting of the

Otago Settlers Association, the principal feature in which appears to be an angry dispute between two doctors ; as far as we can judge its proceedings seem to be on a part with its namesake at Wellington. The Settlement had been visited on the 9th of June by a violent gale from the South West which lasted forty eight hours, doing considerable injury to many of the buildings.

A prospectus is published in the Witness of the ‘ Otago Banking Company” to be conducted on the Scotch system. The capital is fixed at £7,500 in shares of £5 each with power to increase the shares, to be paid in instalments not exceeding £1 ;’ss. each to extena over a period of four years from the date of charter. Every five shares give one vote to each shareholder ; each Director to hold not less than fifty shares. A meeting of shareholders had been held and five provisional Directors had been elected.