NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday, September 8, 1852.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 741, 8 September 1852, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday, September 8, 1852.

Last Friday's Government Gazette furnishes additional evidence, if any were required, of -the interminable nature of the questions arising out of tne land claims, in the reference made by Lord Grey to the New. Zealand,. Company's terms of pasturage in his despatch acquainting the Governor of the Royal confirmation of the Crown Lands Amendment Ordinance. His Lordship observes that the Ordinance "would 7 appear to.be quite inoperative within' the New Zealand Company's settlements, wherever there may be existing ' Terms of Pasturage ;', those terms being generally speaking (as you have been.al T already apprized), regarded t>y the.law advisers of the Crown as existing contracts binding ' 6n : her Majesty's 1 Government." These remarks,, though of" general application to the' Company's settlements, refer more particularly to -Nelson, and. with the letter addressed committee fespectin'gly the absentees' claim to compensation, wiirifurnish' ample matter for .discussion in that settlement. * '

The petitions sanumerously signed by Ihe settleis of Wellington anaS Nelson against the Company's " Terms," and in .favour of Sir Grey's arrangements for Jinally settling' the|e;<jnestions, pahd of his Pastoral regulations, that were sent home in the Midlothian, will before this have reached the Colonial office, and will no doubt have produced their desired effect. It is high time that these questions were finally got rid of, for with the changes/daily .taking place and likely to grow out of the present " gold fever,"- the unsettled state of the " land question" must prove most detrimental to the^Colony.

His Excellency the ' Governor-iri- Chief 'and Lady Grey and suite sailed yesterday in the Goverment Brig on a visit to Nelson, Twhere it is expected that His' Excellency will only remain a few days.

Coroner's Inquest. — An Inquest was held yesterday morning,- at -Barrett's Hotel, by Dr. Fitzgerald, , Coroner, „91^, the body t.oi, Daniel M'Lean, late mate, of the Qclair schftoner. The deceased, after his watch 6n;Sunday night, went down below, and was found' dead in his I)erth" tHe next morning, having had an .apoplectic fit. The vessel; had left the "harbour on Sunday. afternoon,, but put back in consequence of the death of the mate: A verdict was returned of Died by\apoplexy.<: - '