NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Saturday, September 11, 1852.
The English news by the Stately is not of a later date than had been previously received via Sydney by the Chusan. From the Times, .May 15, we have extracted the report of the proceedings in the House of Lords on the secpnd reading of the Bishopric of Christchurch Bill. - Unless we are misinformed we believe it is intended" by this Bill to di-
vide the present diocese of New Zealand into two parts, and through the management of those dilletanti lords who make colonization their hohhy and are mixedup in the .Canterbury scheme, to include Wellington and Nelson in the Christchurch diocese. We certainly cannot approve of this attempt^ to forward the Canterbury scheme at the expense of the older, settlements. It is well known that the Bishop of New Zealand's recommendation was to divide New Zealand into three dioceses, a northern, a central $iocese including Wellington and Nelson and the districts connected with them, and the southern one of the Canterbury settlement and that part of New Zealand to the South of it ; and it is very unjust to the older settlements to deprive them of the benefit of the Bishop of New Zealand's recommendations founded on practical experience of the peculiar requirements of his extensive diocese, for the purpose, it would seem, of giving >undue prominence to the "religious feature" of the Canterbury scheme. We have also received a copy of the last Blue Book on New Zealand, laid before Parliament May 3rd, 1852. Its contents are unusually interesting, as in it will be found the masterly despatch of Sir George Grey enclosing the draft of the Provincial Councils Ordinance, to which such frequent honorable reference was made by Sir John Pakington in his speech on the 3rd May on the New Zealand Constitution. In this despatch, to which we have of late had frequent occasion to refer in general terms, the Governor explains at considerable length, and in a most lucid and able manner, his plan for the future constitution of the Colony! The despatch occupies fifteen pages of the Blue Book j we shall endeavour if possible to publish it in our next number. From the Lyttelton Times we have reprinted the draft of Mr. Gladstone's Bill for enabling the members of the Church of England in the colonies to manage their own affairs, to which we referred in a leading article a few weeks since, and which seems well calculated to remove many of the difficulties that at present .interfere to prevent the healthy developement of the Church in the Colonies.-
The Stately arrived on Thursday evening from London, after a favourable passage of 113 clays, having left the Downs May 17, and the Lizard May 19 ; she made the ' Snares (the first land sighted off New Zealand.) September Ist. The Stately has sixteen ta 1 ii, and fifty steerage passengers for Wellington, Nelson, and Otago. During the passage one birth occurred.
H.M. Schooner Pandora arrived on Thursday from Sydney, after a quick passage of eight days. The Australian (June Steamer) had not arrived at Sydney when the Pandora left, ncr had later English dates been received than to the 15th May by the Chusan. We observe that vessel is * advertis d to leave Sydney on the 31st ult., with the English mails via Singapore for England. We believe the Pandora will proceed in a few days to Auckland.
The Lyttelton Times to 4th September, received by the Duke of Roxburgh contain no local news of interests By a paragraph quoted from the Otago Witness it appears that that Journal is likely to be discontinued for want of paper. The Witness says :: — cc We are short of paper, and have purchased every scrap we can hear of in the town, and have only enough for another issue, and unless some one can supply us, next number will close our publication for a time/ 3
TpE barque Tory sailed on Wednesday for Melbourne, being quite full of passengers from Canterbury and this Settlement for the diggings. Many of those belonging to this Settlement are married men who have left their wives and families behind them, and intend returning after having tried their fortune at the diggings for a season.
65th Regiment. — The London Gazette of May 14th contains the following appointments :—: — Andrew Nicholson Magrath, gent., to he ensign, without purchase, vice Bulkeley, promoted ; Augustus Nicholas Wilson, gent.j to be ensign, by purchase, vice Servantes, promoted.
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