THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONERS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 57, 11 October 1864, Page 3

THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONERS.

The Commissioners have been visiting the Province of Nelson in the discharge of the important functions devolving upon them, and have likowiie examined a number of witnesses as to its climate, land, roads, rivers, harborage, and minerals. The Nelson Chamber of Commerce presented a copy of the " Report of a Committee of the Chamber of Commerce on the advantages offered by Nelson as a site for General Government of New Zealand." From the Wellington Independent of the 4th, we learn that the Commissioners have sent in their report, and have left the colony for Sydney. That journal says, contrary to the general expectation, Sir Francis Murphy did not arrive here in the Phoebe. A general election is impending in Victoria, and the electors of the Murray Boroughs, which place he has for many years represented, are now asked to support another candidate, a Mr. Hanna, who by the last advices was in tho field. Urgent private letters calling on him to return at once to Victoria, if he wished to secure a seat in the new Parliament, had been received by Sir Francis, who therefore changed his plans, and left Nelson on Monday last for Sydney, along with Messrs. Docker and Gunn, in the s.s. Otago. Ere leaving Nelson, the Commissioners completed and forwarded their report and decision to Auckland, whence we shall learn the result in about a fortnight. As it will probably be published in a " General Government Gazette," we forbear in the meantime to notice the various rumors current, as "nothing reliable is known on the iubject. We are, however, confident that Wellington, from the many advantages it possesses, has every chance to be the place selected.