NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday November 15, 1854.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume X, Issue 969, 15 November 1854, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND SPECTATOR AND Cook's Strait Guardian. Wednesday November 15, 1854.

Our Auckland papers, received by the Gipsy, are to the 4th inst. The principal event of local interest of 'which they furnish an account 'is the opening of the. second session of the Provincial Council on the 25th ult. His Honor the Superintendent's address to the Council will be found in our [Auckland intelligence.. No certain information appears to have- reached Auckland respecting the" future Governor of New' Zealand, [so that it would appear that up to the latest dates the appointment had not been made. ' Sir George Grey was gazetted on the 28$U My. as Governor and Gommander-in-Chiefat the Cape of Good Hope. it.v - A commission had been issued' by the Officer administering the Government to inquire into the subject of the compensation in land heretofore .to claimants in theNewZealanddCompany's settlements; and of the claimjsfpf 'tjhe labouring, classes to compensation in those ' settlements. JJthe. following persons are named "Commissioners, of G^ffipensation Inquiry: "for the Province o£*New Plymouth—J. Flight, W. Haisey and G. Cutfield, Esqs.; for the Province p£ Wellington—H. St. Hill, E. G. Wa&efield,and G. Mooie, Esqs. ; for the ProviiSce of Nel-son-—M. Richmond, W. T. %>, Travers, and J. W. Saxton, Esqs. <■>< "• A tea meeting had been gltfen, on the 2nd October, by the electors aiQnehunga to E. G. Wakefield, Esq., and the other members of the House of Representatives who supported his policy in relation to the setting apart of land for the labouring classes, and on the 25th a soiree was Held at the Odd Fellows' Hall of the settlers of Auckland, at which an, address was presented to Mr. E. G. 'Wakefield in » acknowledgment of the services he had ren--dered to that Province. On each occasion .Mr. Wakefield made a' speech -of considerable length enforcing his views, and defending the course he had pursued in the House of Representatives, which was received with much cheering, and other 'demonstrations of applause. A correspondence is published in the New Zealander of the 23rd Sept., cp^sjstjng, of a from Mr. Titzgerald denouncing Mr. Wakefield in the fiercest ieims, with .Mr. Wakefield's reply, in whjc^ .after answering Mr. Fitzgerald's attacks on him, he professes to draw the' latter irom 'the life, observing ,that "with respect to general character, I owe him sncl| a picture of his own as shall enable fine -public to appreciate his description of jminei Its f accuracy will be admitted by all who know him, or shall cometo know him as f well as I do." We intend to ta£e an early opportunity of publishing th& correspondence. The steamer Nelson reachedf^uckland on the 4th, and was to leave again on the Bth : she is expected to arrive herb to^ wards the end of the week, — r— * '.' ■ The Gipsy arrived on Monday frpm Auckland af£er a passage of eight days, she .made a quick passage from -London to Auckland of ninetyfour days," and remained only seven days at Auckland. "•" The Concert given on Monday evening at the Assembly Room, Barrett's Hotel, in aid of the f trad for the relief of the suffered by famine in Palestine proved a very successful affair. The room was quite crowded, and *the execution of the songs, glpes, &c. appeared to afford great; gratification to the audience, j We understand' that the proceeds of. the Concert will amount to Thirty Pounds. . ». „,.£.. -