AUCKLAND.
MitiTAHY. — The following announcements appeared in the London Gazette on the dates' specified ,— May 6, " 68th Foot,— PaymSster.j Serjeant J. H. R. Harrison of the 58ttr\Foot;. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Tfghe, : promoted :— and June 24. "58th Foot,—Gentleman Cadet Dawson Townley,from the Rbyal Military College, to be Ensign without purchase, vice Mayne, deceased." — We learn 1 that Captain Coote* late of the 36th Regt., is shortly expected at Auckland to relieve Brigade Major Greenwood, who returns to England. Three hundred men of the '99th have been removed from Hobart Town to Melbourne, and we have also heard that an application has been made to astifertain whether, — if it should be found necessary further to strengthen the troops in Victoria, — a number of men from the 58th, stationed here could be spared for the purpose } but this we presume was merely j a precautionary inquiry, and the last accounts from Melbourne represented order as so far restored at the mines that it is not at all likely the necessity will arise. — ■ A report had obtained some circulation that the 65th Regiment were to be removed from the South to Australia, to relieve the 1 lth stationed at Sydney — the 65th to be replaced by the 89th from home, but it did not rest on any conclusive authority. — New Zeatander t October 15. The following is extracted from the Maori Messenger : — " Our native readers are in all probability aware that the Governor, Sir George Grey, having obtained leave of absence from Her Majesty the Queen, is now on the eve of his departure from New Zealand on a visit to Great Britain. " His Excellency has already taken his farewell of the inhabitants of the South ; and that amidst the most lively expressions of respectful regret on their part. All classes seemed to have vied with each other in manifesting their cordial appreciation of the many great and shilling qualities of his Excellency, — qualities alike conspicuous in the Governor and the man. " In equal and heartfelt appreciation of the character of Sir George Grey, the Native Race have again and again furnisheJ incontestible evidence they especially participate. And it would be surprising indeed if they did not ; since to elevate the Native Race in the scale of moral, social, and religious intelligence, has al- ! ways been the earnest and unremitting aim of Governor Grey. And in all those praiseworthy and benevolent endeavours, his Excellency has been as singularly as happily successful. " When Sir George Grey arrived, he found New Zealand in a state of ruthless and ruinous warfare. He is about to quit it, not merely in a condition of profound peace, but in one of immediate and hourly increasing prosperity ; and with every prospect of a rapid and unexampled progress in all that is dear and desirable to the most ambitious and enterprising nations. These are the facts to which the colonists of the South have so generally and gratefully testified. And we feel it not only a duty, but 'i privilege to give publicity, to their sentiments in this journal., which owes its origin. to the anxiety of Sir George Grey, to promote, in every way, the instruction and information of the Native people."
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 864, 12 November 1853, Page 3
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535AUCKLAND. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 864, 12 November 1853, Page 3
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