BARON HOCHSTETTER-THE NOVARA EXPEDITION.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 284, 10 July 1860, Page 3

BARON HOCHSTETTER-THE NOVARA EXPEDITION.

{From the New Zealander.)

OUR NOVABA VISITORS. By the April mail, a letter from Dr. now Professor Yon Hochstetter, has been received by his friend Dr. Fischer of this city, who has furnished us with an outline of that portion which has a public as well as private interest. • The two Maories—William Toetoe and Herema Rerehau—-who were permitted to accompany the Novara to Europe, are in perfect health. They have been presented to the Imperial Family; have been invited to several entertainments got up for them; and were at the great banquet given in honor of the return of the Novara. They I have been greatly noticed by the Viennese nobility, and evidently feel themselves quite at home. Court-Councillor Yon' Aver, the Director of the celebrated Imperial Printing Establishment, has taken Toetoe and Rerehau under his especial care, and has instructed them in every branch of the art of Printing—with which they have became well acquainted; while another officer of government (who has made himself a thorough Maori linguist) takes them to see everything useful and instructive as well as entertaining. So that there is no doubt they will leave the Austrian capital with the most agreeable impressions of their reception and treatment. The Austrian Government was to send them back to New Zealand via London in May, when Professor Yon Hochstetter would himself see them safely in our Great Metropolis. Dr Hochstetter, as the altered title we have given him wiJl indicate, is now ennobled. The King of Wurtemberg has raised him to the dignity of Baron. He also now holds a Professor's Chair. His aged father, a Lutheran clergyman, of retiring character and simple habits, but possessed of a highly scientific turn of mind, lived long enough to see his son return in health and honor, and to hear the value of his researches in connection with the Novara Expedition receive the highest recognition. He died "a days after—his death probably hastened by the excitement occasioned by his son's return and under such gratifying circumstances. Dr. Scherzer and Dr. Frauenfeld have also been rewarded for their services in connection with the same Scientific Expe-dition—-having received the Order of the Iron Crown and been raised to the rank of Baron. We are glad to hear that one and all the members of the Expedition retain the most pleasurable recollections of their visit to the Province of Auckland, and that more^ than one would be happy to settle hear for the purpose of pursuing their several branches of scientific observation and investigation. We need scarcely add how glad we should be to welcome them, —Jelinex, Frauenfeld, and Hochstetter —could we offer them sufficient inducement to naturalize themselves as New Zealanders:—as we fear we cannot, we must content ourselves with wishing them long life and health to enjoy their well-won honors.

(From the Sydney Morning Herald.)