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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 689, 10 March 1852, Page 3

The brig Sarah arrived on Saturday with a cargo of a thousand sheep for Messrs. Thomas and V. Smith's stations, near Castle Point. In looking over the papers received by this opportunity we find the following in one of the communications of the London correspondent of the Sydney Herald: — “ It is now twelve months, 1 think, since 1 told you I had in my mind the individual who was to succeed Sir Charles Fitzroy, in the New South Wales Government. The individual I alluded to, was, in truth, no other than Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, I heard some days ago, of a rumour to the effect that this gentleman was really to be appointed Governor-General of Australia, and to-day I feel that there is sufficient probability of the authority from which it proceeded being well informed to justify me in giving it you. A captain in the navy, whose name 1 missed, was said to be Sir George’s successor in New Zealand, on Sir George going to Sydney. If this rumour should prove true, Sir George Grey will be a very fortunate man. He belongs to that new school of governors, which it has been the object of successive administrations of late years to call into existence, what may be called professional governors. The old plan was, to take veteran war officers, and remunerate them for their valour by these colonial proconsulates; this would be sometimes varied by the appointment of minor statesmen, or reduced men of quality. Now, the plan is to rear up governors, much as is done with regard to diplomatists."